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Happy Halloween 🎃
Frog Rock, our neighborhood landmark, is a vampire frog this Halloween. Last year, he was a ghost. 👻
Not a Christmas Card
Back in the day, I used to write a long letter at this time of year, print maybe forty copies, and mail them to friends and relatives. Did it take a lot of time? Yes. Was it expensive? Yes – International postage is not cheap. Did anyone read it? Who knows?
Flying Piano (reprise)
What goes in through the bedroom, comes out through the bedroom.
And so it was for our 7’ 4” Falcone piano. The difference was that Martinson Piano Movers used a crane on the way in and a forklift-like machine on the way out.
Although the forklift seemed to be a
VPNs Are Your Friends
You’ve probably seen articles recently about how evildoers can scam, skim, and snoop your private information for their financial benefit. Besides encouraging you to wrap yourself in a cloak of paranoia once appropriate for a Cold War spy – “no one is who they seem to be” – these articles inevitably
Étude – Fini
Yesterday we signed the papers to take ownership of Étude. So we’re done, right? Hop aboard, cast off, and away we go.
Not so fast.
Once the Nordic Tug factory completes sea trials, a boat gets passed on to the dealer. If the dealer is a good one, and
Étude – First Sighting in the Wild
Étude was scheduled to begin sea trials (that is, “Is she leaking?”) on August 16th. I don’t know whether that milestone was met. But our broker, Jeff, sent these photos today and it seems there’s little doubt that it’s our boat.
A mystery: Sea trials were supposed
Étude – Getting close!
We dropped into the Nordic factory on our way back from Canada. I was hoping for a firm delivery date, but didn’t get one. As best we know, Étude will be on the water some time before the end of the month.
But that’s not delivery. It’s
Étude – What a mess!
No, your eyes are not going wonky. All of the photos in this post were taken with a 28mm wide angle lens. I figured I’d need it for the interior shots, then was too lazy to switch to a different lens for photos outside of the boat.
You won’