HIBERNATION

SHIP'S LOG:

      Well, at last, at last, ABISHAG is all snuggled down and wrapped up for the winter. The tarps are on, the batteries are out, the oil is changed, all the water systems are drained and/or filled with anti-freeze,  everything that needed doing has been done. Now the long wait begins, the wait until the great unwrapping in the spring when we undo all that has been done for the winter. And now the project list begin to grow.  I still have the list from the "Year of the Falling Tree" as well as last years, and it will grow even further for the coming spring.  There is nothing like putting the boat to bed for the winter to fire you mind projects that absolutely "need" to be done before launching.

     Truth be told, the only things that absolutely, positively must be done before the boat is launched is to 1.) uncover it; 2.)  replace the sacrificial zincs; 3.) paint the bottom. Ah but there are so many more things that I want to do, so many things that have been put off for far too long, and so many other things that are absolutely not needed but would be so nice. I will be perusing the Defender catalog and the one from West Marine. I will log in daily to their web sites and plan, my dreams limited only by money such a paltry thing, but oh so necessary. So may important decisions will be worried over and debated and planned for and, for the most part, scrapped do to the infamous "lack of funds." But it is fun to dream.