the time has flown

Wow it is the middle of Jan and I realize I have not posted anything on our blog in a couple of months,it has been a couple of awesome months, Nov. we went on a thanksgiving dinner cruise aboard The Belle of Topsail, a local cruise out of Topsail Beach, the food was super, the crew was awesome, it was their first one and you could not ask for a better one, I normally don't recommend any cruise but this one I really do, it is operated by Capt Dave and Sharon Luther, the bar tender is Cookie, it is hard to tell who the BOSS is, Sharon or Tiger, they are on Facebook under the belle of topsail, look them up.now on to the month of Dec., had to install a new holding tank on THE LADY STAR, 125 gallons,converted the rear aux fuel tank, not a fun job but got it hooked up , and in use, we went to Charleston to spend Christmas with family,came home on day after Christmas, great and glad to be back on board, If it is one thing that I have learned in my short 61 years on this earth is how to piss off someone in my family by just showing up on Christmas. on the way home we ran into snow, but by the time we got to Hampstead it was gone, it was just a preveiw of what was coming in Jan. well we celbrated the new year on baord, it was great, cold as hell outside but we stayed warm and snuggled up in the bunk watching the ball drop, then on the 4th I turned 61 it was a great birthday, Pam really had a awesome dinner cooked and whoa what a DESERT, still trying to recover from it 3 days latter, then we got 8" of snow, it was also the coldest December on record here, then 9 days ago I came down with pneumonia, I waited like a dumb ass male for 3 days before going to the doctor, not one of my brightest ideas, won't happen again, Pam's Daughter had there Christmas last weekend in Havalock, so we went and surprise it was great being there, a lot of love and a great time,the reason they had christmas late is because her son Alex was up in Pa, with his biological father, she is remarried to a hellva fine fellow named Shawn, they also have a little girl 18 months old, who is called Annie or RUNT by her Pa C(me)Shawn is on active duty station at Cherry Point well, that kinda brings us up to day, I am sitting up in a chair looking out and it is snowing again dam, Pam is going like gang bangers in school, 3.94 grade average since she started on the Dean's list for 2 years now, and has taken care of me while I was sick but she started with a cough last night so it is now my turn to play nurse, she has just told me that the holding tank is full, so I call the marina office and ask about using our portable pump out station, got told it was broke and broke in July , the board has not approved it being fixed. HMMMM, I guess I will call the President of the marina board tomorrow and ask if or when it will be fixed, it has been a great past three months, I promised to post more offen