If I had listened to my mum while I was growing up I would have known that bragging about our awesome weather would not only earn me ill feelings from others – but it might even cause one of them to put a cold and rain hex on us. Actually, she never said the hex part, but I’m pretty certain she told me that gloating isn’t very nice.
So I’m sorry. My last post was mean.
Can you make it stop raining now?
Please?
But we don’t live in a leak-free home.
We live on a leaky boat.
A cold and damp leaky boat with indoor puddles.
I though it might be a good excuse to go out.
But it was really wet out and the seats of the dinghy were soaked so we stayed home and went hungry. (See jinx person? This rain is really tough on us.)
I thought I had a really good solution – avoid rain for a year, maybe two. My mistake was in gloating about it – so again, I’m sorry.
When you think about the fact we went from six leaks to two, we’ve really improved and are clearly quite good at fixing leaks (at least that’s what I tell Ev, so he doesn’t get too demoralized). As soon as the rain stops though it will be time to rebed and recaulk the leaking fittings (and quietly sneak south to places that are warm and where rain doesn’t fall.)
Heading south is actually a few more days off in our future. There must be a heck of a system brewing out there; our 5-7 foot swell is scheduled to grow to 15-17 feet tonight…
3 comments:
I am laughing with you - not at you. Our leaks decreased from 6 to 2 as well with one brewing. Oh and we have a mystery leak from a light fixture too. Pissy thing is one of the new ones is over the book shelf and a load of Zach's books got trashed. Now we have a towel routine for the bookshelf. I am tired of it. they are on the hit list for this weekend.wishing you sunshine and a dry boat.
The leaks in the bed are the worst. A year ago we discovered that when it was really coming down our bed would get wet. We fixed that leak. That was good. But then we discovered some lesser leaks that we didn't notice before. We fixed those. Yesterday we left the hatch above our bed open just a little, then it rained and the bed got wet. Who knows if the leaks are fixed, but I do know that it sucks to have a wet bed.
We are still trying to find all of the leaks in our boat. It may be somewhat of an advantage I suppose to live on the boat so you can see the leaks as they are happening rather than chase the "evidence" of a leak when the water has stopped. And then again, it is nice to be able to go home to a dry bed. But none the less, we still have a couple of minor deck leaks that I need to chase down.
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