 Walked 3 hours to the south of the island and back in the woods today. Just had two days of solid rain. Filled our water bins, pressure sprayer, and still the rain kept coming... washed my salt-laden shoes, wetsuit...more rain, washed the dishes... ALL the dishes. Rain. Never seen this level of rain in the summer before. Had to bail water out of the dinghy twice today. Because of last year’s drought we’ve been super careful with water, too careful maybe... but also, can never resist collecting rain, feels like a waste if I don’t. Our sailing friends came into the same bay as us yesterday and gave us their old chart plotter....! They replaced it with a newer model. We’ve never had one aboard Pino. Redundancy is good. It’ll be good to have something a bit more rugged/waterproof than an old smart phone. We’ll try and it up soon. Seems like Pino is where our friends go to get rid of their things. I think because we make do with not having certain things, or repair broken things, or get them second hand whenever possible, ppl assume we can’t afford them. Being thrifty is often seen that way... I do wonder sometimes, cause it happens a lot. Cortes, where we're anchored, is one of the last remaining islands in the Salish Sea where healthy large predator-prey relationships still exist. Pino with the boom tent in summer mode :>. Covers most of the cockpit without obscuring any of our two solar panels. We sent up our boom tent over the cockpit, and it shields the whole space super well from both rain, and sun. Been doing some free form comics for the past few weeks, to help me flesh out some new characters, and it is so, so fun. I guess this is the drawing version of roleplaying OCs, something I grew up doing (and that I freakin’ loved). Non sequential panels, photographed from my sketchbook. What has been filling my days as of late~! The interior of a 55ft 1929 wooden pilothouse yawl, built in Vancouver BC. Yellow cedar planks over oak ribs, with mahogany interior and bronze hardware. "The most tweeted moment in the history of Twitter was during one airing of Castle in the Sky on Japanese TV on August 2, 2013, when fans tweeted the word "balse" (バルス or "barusu") at the exact time that it was said in an important moment of the movie. There was a global peak of 143,199 tweets in one second" On the wikipedia page of Castle in the Sky. While researching hand mills for grain... One seller's tag line for a mill was: "The mill your wife wants. Guaranteed." UGH.  |
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