Jun 10 2010
Another year older
Tuesday, June 1st, I became another year older and am now 39. I have a good friend, Jano, who shares my birthday and this year was her 60th, so we had a party for her on the Saturday before the 1st at the Outboard Boating Club on Shelter Island. The crowd included many members of the now dis-banded EYC (Eichenluab Y.C.), including Carl himself. Arne, Jack, Mark, Steve, etc al.., there must have been 30-50 people. It was a good gathering. Kathleen was at the party too and we were able to spend some time together and commune. Kathleen just moved into a new place and asked me to help her shop and build furniture on the coming Friday.
Tuesday itself was a day of eating. I had breakfast with a group of friends in the morning at the “Point Break”. Later in the day, Fritz and Richard took me to lunch at the “Brigantine”. I rode my motorbike in the afternoon and hooked up with my friends in Alpine; Scott, Kelly, Miranda and Coral. Scott and Kelly and I rode off together and stopped by a bar, for more eating and drinking. Later I had a home-cooked meal and was even able to take a hot bath, which is always a treat for me.
Another breakfast, this time in P.B. with my friend Ann Marie. I can totally see why people begin to gain weight when they get older, everyone wants to feed you!
Dispite their efforts, there is still no fat on me. 39 years old and no hint of a beer-belly, of course, I don’t drink beer, which I’m sure must help.
The following Friday, I spent the day helping Kathleen shop for home furnishings at Great News and IKEA. In the evening I worked on assembling the furniture while Kathleen made us dinner. Some people are challenged and frustrated by IKEA puzzles, me, I love that kind of thing.
Saturday I rode mostly around the bay on my bicycle with my friend Michelle, who lives on her beautiful Bristol Channel Cutter near me in the mooring field. We used the ferry to get over to Coronado, and later the Trolley to get back up from Chula Vista.
The next day, Sunday, I did the same ride again, only this time with Kathleen and in the opposite direction. We rode down to Chula Vista and met up with Brian, who just moved into his new Condo. We admired his place, then we all rode out together for the silver strand. Brian turned around when we got near Fiddler’s cove and Kathleen and I continued on to the the Ferry-landing, where we boarded the ferry for the return to the mainland.
June 26th marks the one year anniversary of our return from circumnavigating the planet. It has taken most of the year, but we seem to be recovering our friendship and reiterating what we mean to the other, which is a lot. We each care deeply for the other, and it feels very nice to be friendly again. I do love her.
On June 26th of this year, I should be up in the Puget Sound. The Gray’s Harbor Historical Seaport has asked me once again to come up and drive the tall-ship “Lady Washington”. It’s been a few years since my last tour with them and I’m looking forward to it. I plan to drive up on my motorbike in just less than two weeks and will be gone for the month of July. I pick the ship up in Olympia and will leave it in Bellingham 4 weeks later. It will be the standard tour, with education programs and cannon battles between her and the “Hawaiian Chiefton”.
Otherwise than that, live is good. I took my sailing dingy out into the bay yesterday afternoon to cheer on and watch the “beer-can” races. Kathleen was racing on a Oslen 34′ called “Buzz Lightyear” and they looked good at the weather mark, although K. said they had some issues at the other end of the course. It was fun to see them go by.
Yesterday I also got to dive to the sea floor to retrieve an expensive part that someone else dropped over. They looked for it for a while and gave up, so I said I’d go get it, and I did. For some reason, I’ve alway been successful on those kind of missions and I was cocky enough to virtually guarantee success before I even got in, so I was happy that it worked out.
Summer is here, in San Diego that means June Gloom. It is foggy and overcast all morning long. This should be over by the time I return from the “Lady”
I hope all is well with you and yours.
Be well, have fun!