Looks like fall is coming!
11 September 2010 | still in the Midwest...for now
Karen
The sun is slanting a little further south, and it's still dark at 6am here in the Midwest ...it looks like fall is imminent. The Labor Day weekend last week brought Gale warnings out on Lake Michigan, and forced a cancellation of the Tri-State Race. Time to head south.
Hello everyone! It's been a very busy summer for us, racing for Jim, working for me, trying to get the house in order, planning and preparing for our boat projects and spending time with family and friends. Maureen and I spend the past few weeks on a MAJOR project, recreating the saloon cushions out of white marine-grade leatherette. When we left the boat in May we pulled all the cushions out of the covers and brought the covers home. We ordered 30 yards of material and began the process of ripping the cushions apart and using them as a template for the new material and rebuilding the covers. We turned our living room into a sewing shop and it took us about 3 weeks, 200 yards of thread, 3 sewing machines and about 23 of the 30 yards of material, but we are done. We have them packed in our luggage (yes our luggage is already packed!). After all the effort they took we don't dare trust them any other way. Now, we just need to wait and see if we did this well enough and they all fit!
We have another crate prepped and sitting in its blue painters tape footprint in our back room, which is hardly large enough for it, but we made it work. This one full of tools, a Honda generator, a new deck chair, two more sport a seats - and two new green covers for the two we left on the boat. More linens, clothes, extra material and notions for sewing awnings, batteries, etc. We'll be delivering the boxes to the crating facility early this week and then it goes off to the truck, warehouse, train, loading dock then freighter. With luck...it'll arrive in Trinidad the same day we do...Oct 6th.
So, for us, it begins again.. When we get to Trinidad we have weeks and weeks of labor to get Regenero in order, so you can look forward to hearing about work, work, heat and more work. Thanks in advance for those of you who are following along with us. I look forward to your posts and comments as it really helps us feel like we are still in touch.