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.

well it has been a while since our last post, it has been a little rushed around here for some time, warm weather really brings out new projects, the latest being installing new salon lights, going to LEDs overhead puck lights, got them at home depot, and since we are using them to replace the 12 volt floursant lights under our valances [which are over 200 a piece and there is 10 of them]35 for a set of 3 is less and a lot cooler temp wise,we are not using the transformer that comes with the pucks lights, will work on them today, Pam has started a excise program and she wants to get into a size 2 Wedding dress in stead of a 3, don't ask me but it means I have to walk with her everyday about 4 miles, ouch the backs of my legs are killing me this morning, go figure I still fit in my shorts and tee shirt and dockers!!!!!!!! so why do I have to walk????, We set the date , it will be Sept.18th ,no we have not set a time, it will be on "THE LADY STAR" and the guests on the grass in chairs behind "THE LADY STAR", reception to follow at the club house, it is a causal wedding , guest come as you are, yes this is your invitation, my project list is getting longer because of this wedding, ARRR. well Pam is cracking the whip for me to get busy

It was a great weekend. Enjoyed the outside. One of the boats in the marina was sinking and my Captain, the Marina Master, and another boat owner helped to pump the water out. It was exciting, but I felt bad for the owner. When we came back from our walk, Charles got busy and rewired the sound system so we have music in the stateroom. Sounds nice, Babe.
Charles got some bad news yesterday. A very good friend of his passed. I tried to keep him busy so he could get through the day.
It is official. My Captain proposed, and I, the Admiral, accepted. I am SO happy. I know we make a great pair. Living on "Lady Star" has brought us very close. I will update the progress of the plans when we decide when we are going to tie the knot.
Today has been productive for me. I finished cleaning up after his project. I also started to tackle the stateroom and head.
Beautiful weather, but getting chilly again. Oh well, I guess we are in the yo yo time of the weather in NC.

Well yesterday was another project crossed off the list for me and it made Pam, the ADMIRAL happy, I installed a LED light fixture over the sinks in the galley, its a 10 led fixture, it is manfacture by Grote, a little pricey but it was free for me, I had a little rough time installing it cause had to cut a new mount hole , it mounts flush and the bottom of the cabinet could not be removed so using my jig saw and only a 1" clearance so had to cut at angle, not a good way, then had to go a get brass screws and a on off switch, wired it in and wow it works, now all Pam has to do is clean up the fine saw dust, but it really lights up the galley, oh yes wait I hear my name being called it is MR couch and Mr TV calling, catch you later, Capt Charles