We continue to offload everything from Skylark in preparation for varnishing inside and out as well as projects needing our attention. Ed has done most of the grunt work while I've tended to issues from the home front. He's been offered part time/seasonal work at Yankee Marina and it would have been foolish to turn down the opportunity, so beginning Tuesday we'll live apart several days a week. We've done it before when we still had jobs and a house in NC but it's hard getting used to it now after 5 years of almost constant interactions. We like hanging out together which is the only way I could imagine living in such close quarters on a boat day in and day out. You have to really like the person you're with.

Recently a comment on the blog about whether cruisers on land argue less than cruisers underway got me thinking and I think for us it was the opposite. While we were underway or living in different cultures or figuring out how to get what we needed and countless other issues to resolve we made an effort to rarely argue. When we failed miserably at that we made a point of resolving our differences quickly. Sometimes that meant they didn't get resolved per se, they just got absorbed into life and disappeared (we hope they're disappeared in any event). On land it's a whole different ballgame. We still don't argue much but there isn't the incentive to get on with things immediately. I'll write more about this another time.