Staring At Palm Trees - whine, whine, WINE
20 July 2008 | Bahia del Sol, El Salvador
by the Palm Tree Stare-er
Just blogging to get all the 'lightening strike' blogs off the main page.
Once Scott & I argued about who 'got to do the dishes' - like we both wanted to do them because we needed something to do - can you imagine?
I once read a book about a woman who was a mine engineer's wife in 1906. She complained about being bored because her house was small and therefore didn't have enough housework to keep her busy. I didn't understand this. Now I fear I understand, though I can think of a bunch more things I'd rather be doing than housework - if only it wasn't so dang hot, humid and buggy. I just haven't been able to admit to being bored living on a boat because I didn't want to think having a job was the other, non-boring option.
Scott & I have decided that boat life is the same as regular life just more extreme. It can be boring and terrifying but all in the same day or hour. You can have perfectly amazing morning and then, after dark be watching your husband balance up on his tippy toes on the edge of a bucking sailboat trying to reach up and unhook the mainsheet from the delicate radar mount. Things like that. Once while we were sailing I told myself that boring on a boat is good but that is only for the actual sailing part. Sitting around waiting for things to be repaired that's the boring part for sure but more boring because we are on land in the same place for almost 3 months now. Maybe it's a guy- thing, being ok with being bored; maybe that's why most of the younger women I met on sailboats don't really like it. Maybe if I was older and had even less energy than I do now it would be more OK. Maybe.
But this boredom has given birth to some new direction in my life - 'like what I want to be when I grow up'/ what am I going to do back on land. I thought I could give being an artist another try - what a novel idea! Mike & Mon even just brought over one of those Art Collectors Guides from Santa Fe, NM, the ones that inspire me to do some art - all the way down here in El Salvador! We did find a house (Earthship) in Taos with a small 2-room studio/guest house that would be prefect for my studio. Wish us luck.