Dental Appt Monday.

After a fun weekend a Monday must come. But got to go to the dentist today. Not really looking foward to this.

Stuffing's Done

Adjusted the stuffing box on the boat this weekend. It was a success despite the fact I left one of the two wrenches home. A brrowed wrench, some lube, a busted knuckle and a few choice words the problem was fixed.

 I returned the wrenches and cleaned up the boat and myself then Marilyn and I were going out to lunch. Then we heard a pop and a whump!  Pete was fixing his boat loosened up some of the stays and his mast came crashing down. The mast hit a friends boat after smacking a piling. No one was hurt. It could have been very ugly. But the end was just Pete's mast is now wrecked. 

On a lighter side Saul and Ellen came by for a visit. They were down at Rock Hall and came by on Sunday morning.

Happy Birthday Meg

On Friday Marilyn, Mike, Gail and I took Meg out to Hokka Hokka   for her birthday. A very nice sushi place in Chestnut Hill. The fish was flying off the Love Boat faster than you could say "More Ginger Please!" Tasty little morsels were had by all. The topper was when they lit a sparkler on top of a device that sent sparks flying and opened flaming flower petals, too bad they put it in front of Gail.


Happy Birthday Meg

First it was the MicroBrews then the Bloggers Now the Cupcake Lady.....

Who's Next?!? Seems the City that Loves you back and The Cupcake Lady could not see eye to eye. Therefore the City of Brotherly Love sent out it's goons to confiscate the Cupcake Truck.  Sounds like Mayor Nutter is really working on his small business initiative! You can buy all the crack you want in the city but woe is you if you sell cupcakes! She was at LOVE park this afternoon at lunch time a few of us went out for delectable little morsels. I was hoping for some red velvet ones. But after the city's buttercream caper the news was out and all of the cupcakes were sold  out in a flash.

Fly Night

Jerry, Stanley and I were in the basement of a local synagogue last night flying our tiny radio controlled helis last night. We were trying to tune up our flying kits for the coming indoor flying season. We had a bunch of laughs as we sent helis skittering around the room.  I bent my new little heli up as I was trying to show off a bit. Just a bent linkage and a few stripped gears.

Philly Blog Tax?!?

Looks like the the zeal to increase revenue Philly is going to require a business licence to have a blog. You can choose to have advertising on your blog. Google will send you a check based on the clicks you get on the ads. Real small potatoes. If I were to have ads it would garner a few cents if anything at all. Anyway Philly want to charge blog owners up to $300 for a business licence and a cut of the profits. Are you kidding me! This is worse than the swat teams looking for unregistered beers!

Philly Blog Tax.

The City Paper Take on the Blog Tax.

Hey Nutta'!!!!

I'm not in the City and I don't have ads!!!! So There!!!!

Float switches and Pumps

Float switches and pumps are the bain of my life right now. Both on the boat and home I have had the failure of float switches. In both cases have averted disaster. On the boat I have a device called the stuffing box which is in the picture. It allows the propeller to turn and keeps the water out. Well mine is leaking. Bad enough but the float switch on the bilge pump failed and the boat took on water all week. Luckily we went down and we got it all pumped out. I had to go the West Marine and get a new switch and that fixed it. At home the float switch for the sump failed same as the boat. I changed the switch a week ago. Tonight it is raining and filling up the sump. The switch was not adjusted right. It was keeping the pump running. It almost burned out the pump. I found this out at 10pm with the local Lowes closed. I'm pretty sure I saved the pump and I readjusted the switch. I'll find out if we have a flood in the basement again. I took all the stuff off the floor just in case.

Front door inside

New front door

New Door

The new front door has arrived. It was installed Tuesday! Its really nice and the window makes the room much brighter. I'll have a picture this afternoon.   

The bad news is the side door frame was much more rotten then was thought. The door company had to order a door to replace it.

Last Weekend

We spent the weekend home. We were going to Rock Hall but at the last minute we both had to take a weekend off of taking a weekend off. Marilyn was puttering in the garden and I went off the the flying field.

Not that Bill

Yesterday Marilyn was out with Risa having dinner. I went to the flying field to fly some models, after which I went to the Dublin Star Diner. While I was having dinner they were talking about the Dublin Volunteer Fire Dept Carnival. They had a cruiser night, guys showing their cars from the 50's and the musical entertainment for the night was Bill Clinton.... What?

No not that guy !!!!










This Guy .... Bill Clinton and his band.

Big difference!

Look out! Pirates!

Pirates weekend down at Rock Hall the weekend. I'm hoping the weather will be good to get out of the slip pretty quickly on Saturday. We'll try to get out before the little buccaneers get into full swing. Where are we going??  Don't know yet.

Saluti ai nostri amici italiani che visita il nostro blog

I have noticed that we are getting a lot of traffic tonight from Italy.  Welcome!

Boat Maintainence Weekend

Marilyn and I when to Rock Hall this weekend. It was a great weather weekend high 80's but now wind. Which was ok becauce I had to fix a few things on the boat. I was looking around the boat for leaks as the bildge pump was running funny. I found that the float switch for the pump was bad. So I had to get down in the bildge to see what was the mattter and found a corroded connection. I also replaced the head ( aka toilet ) pump. Not the most pleasant job. But I got it done. I got washed up and then napped for the rest of the afternoon. After dinner we watched the sunset from the docks and then went Al and Anne's boat for wine and conversation. Marilyn got in to a card game they called Oh Hell. I headed for the showers and then my bunk. ( all that napping made me sleepy! )  This morning I found the bildge switch still was not working so I went off to West Marine to get a new one. This replacement job worked and the bildge pump was left working. We left for home in the morning. After unpacking the car I set up a hose on the new faucet I had the plumber put in to the side of the house. So Marilyn can water her flowers. I loaded up the car and went to the flying field. I flew a few turns with my trainer airplane just to shake the cobwebs off. I haven't touched the planes or the computer simulator in a few months.  I still could fly but I'm rusty. The wind at the field ( notice no wind at the bay! ) did not help.

Arguh!!!!!!!

Holy messy spills!  Not in the gulf of Mexico but in my Cube. I spilled a bowl of oatmeal in my cube. All over me, my desk and the floor, yech!  Missed the computers entirely. Can't seems to get the oats out of the carpet. I'm going to need some custodial help!

Not Started yet.......

Procrastination..... is making me wait....

Hmmm  Not how that song goes eh.

But I'm still waiting because I'm still procrastinating! 

Still no start on the cleanup project. I just got to start.......sometime.

Flying guys meeting tonight. Maybe I'll get to it Friday.

More stuff I gotta do....

Gotta clean up the hobby room in the basement today. This heads up a list of stuff that really need doing. The hobby room, my computer room, my dresser, my closet ( What do all these thing have in common? Their Mine! ) all are disaster areas in the house. I just have not had the time or energy to get them straightened out.  Also, I have the parts for the weather station and as you see in the lower right the station is not up. Maybe this week and the tail end of this weekend I'll get a start on some of this stuff.

Pump arrived

The pump arrived from Defender Marine today. Over the weekend the head ( toilet fer you landlubbers! ) had a small leak. I like to quote Sun Tzu on this "Meet your enemy on your terms." So fixing the head at the dock instead of rigging it up in the middle of the weekend when everyone has a "need" is a good thing. I'll also go over and inspect a bunch of things in the boat to make sure that all is ship shape after the "washdown" that we got last weekend.  I'm sure that it will be limited to a post season steam cleaning for the cushions.

Big Adventutes

Meg accepted our invite to come on down to the boat for the weekend. So at 6:30 Marilyn and I pick her up and we drove down to Rock Hall. We loaded up the weekend stuff we put our stuff on our bunk in the front and gave her the tour of the boat. We buttoned everything up and got going out to the bay. When we go to the mouth of Swan Creek a big motor yacht hit us with a wake that sent about 50 gallons of water over the deck. This would not be a problem except all Marilyn's and my stuff was under an open hatch. our stuff was soaked as well as our bunk and the whole inside. We continued to the Magothy River and anchored. We proceded to mop up the mess and put our stuff outside to dry. By late afternoon all was dried up. The three of us jumped into the boat pool, a jellyfish protection barrier, and we had many laughs as the boat swung back and forth in the wind dragging the pool.  For dinner we had grilled chicken and lots of wine and cheese and watched a great sunset. We taked and had a great time to late in the evening. Meg said that she slept like a baby on the boat. We had coffee an the only drama was the bannana muffins spoiled. We then had a nice trip back to Rock Hall passing the Baltimore Light house.