By now our followers on the blog might have given up on us. After almost a week of being offline, sailblogs.com is up and running again although I still can't post photos. I wrote to them last week and heard from the site administrator that there was the threat of a cyber attack or maybe an attempt so to protect user's data the website shut down while they worked on solutions. It's bad timing for us since people have been asking whether I'd continue writing on the blog and I kept saying I wasn't sure. I wouldn't have simply walked off and left you hanging, as it might have seemed I did. It's been frustrating but there was nothing to be done on our end other than wait. I just wish I could post photos of Skylark's final days in the water. I am hopeful that will happen soon.

In the meantime, Ed, Luna and I are settling in at my mom's home in Maine and while moving is always stressful, everything has gone well. We are lining up dental, vet, and dermatology appointments, cancelling boat-related services such as our Spot Tracker account (sigh), Chris Parker's weather forecasts (big sigh) and our mail forwarding service in Green Cove Springs. We have a PO box here in Bethel and that is rather startling for us both. We're living where? At my mother's? Without Skylark? Come again?

But you know, it all feels right and I don't think we'll regret our decision to swallow the hook. Luna says, "Hell no we won't regret it! All this green grass and animal smells is exactly what I've been waiting for! It took us long enough getting here, that's all I can say". Oh, Luna has much more to say but that's it in a nutshell. My mom is very pleased we're here and after Aunt Nancy ended up in the hospital last week with heart problems (her prognosis is promising) I thought to myself, "This is why I needed to come back, this is what my sense of urgency was all about". As I said, it feels right.