SHIP'S LOG:
I am not sure why but she ain't up for sale as of yet. well, let's just say that there are no pictures and no add anywhere I can find. This means that i have to contact the broker and find out why the hell not! Hey, if no one knows she for sale she won't sell and as much as i hate the thought of her selling, it has to be done . . . . that is unless the condo sells. It that black hole of a situation, still lots of lookers but no takers . . so far. It really is a crazy situation!
The "iron Genny" - the engine - is already winterized which means that it is off until the spring. No starting until I have somewhere to go or else I will have to go through the whole winterization process again, along with its attendant costs. I also removed several books from the boat. These are mostly books on repairing and maintaining all of the systems on the boat. It is my winter reading - especially those on "the Mystery that is ELECTRICITY." No matter how many times I go through those books and over the explanations of electricity and circuits and all that stuff, the less clear it seems to get. I would more readily take apart of diesel engine with my limited knowledge of diesel engine, than I would try to rewire a power panel. perhaps it is because you can't see electricity, just its effects, that makes it mysterious.
I will haul out the anchor chain and lay it on the deck. I will oil it and "let it breathe" over the winter. This will free the windlass for it eventual removal and repair. I will blow $25 on a blu-poly tarp and some line to cover the cockpit for the winter, to keep the snow out. Though i will be down at least weekly to check her out, I don't want snow, of which much is predicted to fall, building up in the cockpit. The drains are at best "adequate" for handling water so long as it IS water. Snow and ice building up in the cockpit will lead to the risk of water getting into the boat interior unnecessarily. Paranoia yes, but it is a healthy paranoia.
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Well done, thou good and faithful servant. Enter thou into the Joy of thy Lord.
Matt. xxv. 2.
These words are whispered in the ears of many whom the world would pass by unrecognizing.
Not to the great, and the world-famed, are these words said so often, but to the quiet followers who serve Me,
…unobtrusively, yet faithfully, who bear their cross bravely, with a smiling face to the world.
Thank Me for the quiet lives.
These words speak not only of the passing into that fuller Spirit Life.
Duty faithfully done for Me, does mean entrance into a Life of Joy—My Joy, the Joy of your Lord.
The world may never see it, the humble patient, quiet service,
…but I see it, and My reward is not earth’s fame, earth’s wealth, earth’s pleasures, but the Joy Divine.
Whether here, or there, in the earth-world, or in the spirit-world, this is My reward.
Joy.
The Joy that carries an exquisite thrill in the midst of pain and poverty and suffering.
That Joy of which I said no man could take it from you.
Earth has no pleasure, no reward, that can give man that Joy.
It is known only to My lovers and My friends.
This Joy may come, not as the reward of activity in My service.
It may be the reward of patient suffering, bravely borne.
Suffering, borne with Me, must in time bring Joy, as does all real contact with Me.
So live with Me in that Kingdom of Joy, My Kingdom, the Gateway into which may be service, it may be suffering.
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