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I know this is against the norm in the blogging world but, I try to keep the site clean and easy to read for our reader’s enjoyment. For this reason, I opted to keep comments to one page. We would love to hear from you. Do not let my wacky thought process deter you from expressing your feelings regarding our postings or another items of interest you want to share.
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Mark and Cindy
Haha, This made me laugh. When we bought our boat two summers ago; our toilet seats failed. The seats were fine; but the brackets just disintegrated. We couldn’t find a replacement seat for those particular toilets. So, we went to Home Depot and bought (2) $6.99 toilet seats to pirate the mounting brackets. (Of course they don’t just sell the brackets) I wish we could have found an interesting use for two brand new seats and lids. But, we just ended up putting them out for the trash.
When the first seat broke; my husband accused me of rough use. LOL Then he broke the second one. I had the last laugh.
This is funny. I wonder exactly what is “rough use” of a toilet seat 🙂
Mark
Mark and Cindy,
We are long term? readers of your blog and we are local in the Keys (Big Pine Key).
Are there any shore-based errands or other things we can help you with? Winn Dixie?, Publix? Restaurant recommendations? Home cooked meal?
We are on open water here on Big Pine Channel, but alas, we don’t have deep enough water at our dock.
We do have a dingy dock, and a spare car.
Bruce and Sherry
Wow! Thank you!!!!!
PM sent.
You know you are a cruiser if….
Your friends can only find you by using a garmin.
Great blog.
You guys are studs!
Going to join you this year!
Say hello if you see Helen Highwater. 54 amel.
Bummer about the flu, but its better than the retina detachment (twice!) we decided to deal with! Get well and sail on!
I use the same trick on my vacuum sealer! A friend at work passed that idea on to me. I “provision” my home freezer with meat that is on sale. Mostly ground beef, chicken and chuck roasts. Occasionally a whole pork butt. My favorite tip for beef is to take the afternoon and fry it all up loose. Then package it in the bags for tacos, burritos, tator tot casserole, chili, spaghetti, omelets, goulash and ground beef biscuit gravy or shephards pie! It makes dinner so easy to have that browning step out of the way.
Good idea on cooking the meat first. It makes sense to do it when we have an abundant supply of propane. Too late now. Oh well. Next time.
I love getting your updates, but is there some way you can make the width of the text narrower? It goes so wide that it runs off my page and I have to use the cursor to move it over. This is very discouraging to reading the text. It doesn’t happen with other blogs I get. Thanks. Vicki
Hi Vicki,
Thanks for letting us know. Do you receive the updates via email?
Good idea to lay low for awhile and get that virus out of your system. And thanks for the tip about the food sealer. We have one that will be put to good use. As soon as we buy a separate freezer, that is.
Cindy will post a little later about the vacuum sealer with some pictures. We use this an awful lot to keep stuff dry (not just food).
They didn’t charge you anything to tow your car? Um, my jaw is still on the floor for that one. And that boat broker, well, let’s just say they made the decision-making easy for you! Reminds me of the time in the late 1970’s that I went to Manhattan wearing blue-jean overalls. I was a bit of a late blooming hippy, since I was too young in the 1960’s to do it right. The looks I got! Oh man.
I loved your post about being locked in the head. I’m so glad Cindy came along and rescued you! I have nightmares about being locked in places like that.
When I think about the poor couple that died in the elevator I get the heebee jeebies.