Shipslog

Saturday, August 4, 2018

I might need some help!

Historical Photo

Carving Rushmore.....

There are places I would like to go back to but require flying. My girl has never been a fan of flying but will get on a plane it the incentive is good enough.

She flew to GITMO to be with me. (Big incentive! Haha) She has never regretted that flight and considered the 3+ years some of the best of our lives.

She flew to Utah with the family to see our distant family. Good incentive there.

I had never been to Germany so when the plane fares dropped real low, I sorta begged her to ‘let’s go’. So with a couple friends we were close to, we took the flight and she got to see several countries including France (& Paris) and Switzerland.

She has always wanted to go to Hawaii, so when we had the chance she was willing to fly, since we were in San Francisco and it wasn’t a long flight. Hawaii at Christmas, good incentive.

BUT, but she would like to see London and Ireland but so far the incentives are not good enough.( After Myra's B/W flash back, an idea has grown) So I am thinking of a transatlantic cruise, At least it ain’t flying. I haven’t checked yet hoping some passenger ships leave out of Charleston for Europe. When I was doing research for my book ‘The Vacation’ (Which I just reread, dang good book!) I had to use a ship out of Ft. Lauderdale. That would be a good alternative.

Anyway sweetheart when you read this let me know what you think? What can I tempt you with to fly? If I cannot, what about going on a sea cruise across the Atlantic!

Hey readers, how about encouraging my sweetheart! Give some incentives to fly or encouragement to cruise. What would be an exciting destination?

MMMMMmmm wonder what you must do for an audience with the Queen? Maybe one of the couple that just got married?

(Is this like proposing via e-mail????)

But really a ride on a double-decker bus, changing of the guard and Piccadilly Circus should be enough, huh babe? Think about it!

Nite Shipslog

I just know one of these would be incentive to fly (well at least for me!)

Friday, August 3, 2018

Dem Sheet, dem sheets, dem clean sheets

Historical Photo:
Friend Bonnie, down East, was the only person I knew that still hung out her laundry, until she passed away.

I have mentioned before I really do enjoy cleaning. Of course more when I want to, rather than when I must do it. But usually when I get wrapped up in it, I still enjoy it.
I NORMALLY FORGET NOTHING (snide is supposed to show there!) Now, my memory proves to be fallible here in the motor home. I can blame it on Sherry. As a friend is prone to say, “I didn’t say it was your fault, I said I am blaming you.” Since I am the lazy one and as the norm, I get up last. So I make our bed. The day before she is scheduled to wash the sheets, she ALWAYS tells me, ‘don’t make the bed in the morning I am going to wash the sheets.’
At least half the time I make the bed anyway out of habit. Sometimes she will tear it down, and then sometimes she will wait until the next day with the WARNING, ‘Now don’t make the bed in the morning………… I am usually good the second day.’
We sleep in a sleep-sack. The sheet(s) are really the SHEET one that makes two, really long. And both hems are wide, HA! It is held in place by Velcro down each side, top and bottom. Presently we are using the washer up in the house, but our little washer will wash the SHEET and two pillow cases, but that is about its limit.

Probably if Sheet washing was left up the male portion of citizenry we would probably change the oil rather than wash them. Or maybe we would buy new sheets monthly (or yearly). It is good we men have someone to protect us from ourselves.
I do have silly questions I guess. I know the ‘bedsheet’ has two hems. A big one at the top the small at the bottom. My questions is, “WHO CARES” it is a rectangle of cloth, why does it need a top and bottom. My handkerchief has even hems. OK, I really don’t want to get chewed out here, but why does the sheet have a top end and bottom? Does it have an up and down?