good morning

Well here is the week end before our wedding and it is getting a little hectic around here, so far about 100 people have RSVP to wedding, the crew is getting a little anxious,from the admiral, Pam,the capt, Blue, he is just running and jumping all over the place, me the lowly deck hand, got to go and see what the wedding cake is going to look like, got to go and get the ribbon for the flowers, meet with the pastor tonight, and I thought all I had to do was show up at the corrected time on the right day and the right place, but oh no the Admiral has other plans go figure. on top of this got several projects on the LADY STAR, that have to be done, and no breakfast for me this morning, cook is on strike,

how time is flying by

Wow, here it is Sept.05 another summer is gone, it has been really busy since I posted, several projects have been done and the our wedding is fast approaching, yes it is still on, Pam has not change her mind or thrown me overboard,It is awesome morning today, the humidity is down, last weekend I wash " THE LADY STAR " all over, then this week we prepared for a visit from Hurricane Earl, who through the good graces of God, did not grace us with his presents, a little wind a shower or too. had to rent a mini storage room, and haul a bunch of stuff off the flying bridge, like suit cases, and just junk now I can get up there, the galley is now done until Pam wants to change the counter tops,not for awhile. this morning I got to change out the bilge pump switch, then install a new shower pump system and pump, the previous owner had removed and let it dump into the bilge,I got to run a new drain line to a through hull fitting above the waterline. also got the front stateroom cleaned up and where we can move around in there, oh yes we now have a new member of the crew He is Capt Blue,oh yes I have been demoted to a lowly deck hand, lol, he is a 8 week old black kitten, he is a mess all over the boat, all hours day and night,loves to eat and play and sleep, he is a trip and half,well I have finished my coffee and time to get busy on the projects, thirteen days to the wedding, catch you later

A busy weekend

well it is the 4th of July weekend, Sat, we went to Cola.S.C. it was my mom's 81st birthday, all of my brothers and sisters where there except one brother were there, oh yes there are 6 of us in this motley crew, 3 guys and 3 gulls, lol, it was great, also got to see my grand son, who is 6 months old and sorry his mom will not allow any pics to be posted, go figure; boy he is a spitting image of his dad, is very good natured and very laid back, for a baby, strong, has the most bluest eyes you will ever see or stare into, a real lady killer, going to be a hand full later in life. We grilled out and everyone had a great day, came back to THE LADY STAR on Sunday and boy it felt good to be back, after a 5 hr drive, and it was really great to sleep in our own bed. We stop on the way back in a little town called Fair Bluff and walked down their river walk, they have expanded it another quarter mile, it is up above the river, it was awesome, cool breeze and shady the whole way.Once we got back to the boat, we had a little problem with the rear head, oh yes it just decides to quit working, the pump motor froze up, and so after checking it out, off to West Marine to check on a new pump unit, 500.00 just for the unit or I can buy a new head for 500.00, different head so back to the boat and on line I go to compare heads, well, it was getting late and the fireworks where beginning, so we watched 9 different shows from our bow and flying bridge it lasted for 2 hrs and was just awesome by now it was 11.30 and I was just to tried to fool with any thing, so off to bed.

I, the Admiral, am fighting with the ants that decided to visit us. Every drawer and cupboard I open I see those little things scurrying. I have emptied the drawers and cupboards in the galley. Washed everything down and sprayed. I don't know where they are coming in at. I had to spray the aft deck and the Captain sprayed the lines and hoses going to the boat. I think we should get those things that trap the ants. I am spraying the bed before I put the clean sheets on it. I don't want to be woke with them crawling on me. Well, I had better back in the galley and get supper on. Talk to you guys later.

Another project

well this morning I slept in until 8am, which was a job, cause at 430 my eyes flew open, I just said no way and every 30 minutes my eyes would fly open again, finally got up at 8, turn on the computer and realized that the shelve above the hard drive had collapsed down, so shut it down and tear down everything and move, desk, ac unit so I could access the hard drive in its cabinet, and every thing in it to, reworked the shelve and the surround sound system for the rear state room, refasten the shelve with longer screws, then re route all the cables and the hard drive location and the surround sound system, then reset up the desk and printer, all done and went to power the system and it would not, power was not the problem, the hard driver just refuse to run. it 45 minutes to get it to work, finally it did, what a relief, as usual Pam had a lot of patience with me and not once did she say you should have put longer screws in the shelf before you put all the equipment in that cabinet, LOL

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hmmmm, where to start, I have finish the lights in the Salon and they look and work great, the next project was installing a potable AC unit, it took sometime to get the exhaust ducted out had to find 5" insulated duct that was flexible, fund it and the AC is up and running, temp till we can replace the salon main AC looking at the Mermaid units, it is a complete self contain unit and not a split unit like we have now. well Miss Pam decided that we needed a love seat instead of a couch, and it was being very crowded in here , so I agreed and she was right we do have more room and and a new coffee table to boot, and still more room and do a lot more of cuddling on the Love seat, lol. to get mr. couch out I had to remove the sliding glass doors, then out it went. I honestly shed a couple of tears, but embrace the love seat with open arms. ok, maybe it took about 20min to warm up to it, now the next item on the list, I washed the top half of THE LADY STAR this past weekend, after we went to the blue berry festival sat, this past week end and it was wall to wall , food was awesome, car show super, it has been a very busy month of June and we are only half through it.ok, Miss Pam and I have agreed on a time for our wedding time, Its 5pm on Sept. 18th at Harbour Village Marina, Hampstead, N.C., slip C36 , reception at the club house afterwards, BYOB, we will party, well my typing is getting worse because my 2 fingers are tired. It is an open invitation. Come as you are, very casual.
Pam has finished a year of school with 3 more to go. She finished with a 95%. I am very proud of her. She made the deans list again. I think that is an awesome accomplishment. She is getting started on her HoneyDo list. She made it herself, no help from me. She will be working hard getting our home ready for the wedding.