How low can you go?

We had a couple days of a record breaking LOW, LOW tide. We were so far below the dock we had to lift the dogs almost over our heads to get them up on the dock! To give you an idea, standing on the deck of our boat, the top of the dock was level with my shoulders!!! I literally had to CRAWL up onto the dock!



Luckily, our boat has a full keel which runs the entire length under our boat so we just stuck right in the mud on the bottom without tipping over. Some other boats did not fare so well.....

Christmas on the Water

Wow, its been awhile! My camera broke and life took over. I got a great new camera for Christmas and I am back in action! I now have a Nikon D40 and it is incredible! I have been looking to take my photography to the next level and this will help get me there. Got a new computer which entailed getting new photo software and I think I have it all figured out now!
I'm going to start with Christmas and catch up to the present throughout the week.....

Kevin and I spent Christmas on our boat! It was great being home for Christmas after two years overseas....it was also our first Christmas together! I even put up some festivities!

Of course there were stockings for the puppies!

(yes I realize my stocking is the biggest but hey, I've had it since I was a kid!)

Here is our little fiber optic Christmas Tree! It was perfect for the boat!

Here are the pups digging into their stockings filled with bones, stuffies and chicken strips! Sandy and Jasmine dug right in....but Luke, as always, needed a little help....

We saw this sailboat in our marina...they really went all out!

We spent Christmas Eve at my mother's house with my grandmother, sisters and newphews. It was a great time and we had a huge feast!



My mother misses her sweet greyhounds! She even let them on the couch for a little snuggling and nap time!

Raindrops keep fallin' on my head....

What a wet 4 days!! 4 days of straight HEAVY rain! We found EVERY leak in the boat!!! Which is actually a good thing! All boats leak. From the top down, the all leak.... its only when the leaks come from the bottom up that you have to worry!!!

Due to the driving rains and the cooler weather approaching, we decided it was time to fully enclose the cockpit. So we pulled out the pieces and put her together. Tada!

Now we can still sit in the cockpit and enjoy our dinner or a bottle...er...glass of wine while watching the sunset. We can listen to the raindrops and watch the snow fall all while staying dry and warm!

Speaking of staying warm... with the cooler temperatures, we were able to test out our heating system. Boy does it work good!!! It got so hot we had to turn it off! So it was on and off, on and off, on and off..... even the hounds felt the ups and downs....

First they were cold....

Then they were hot.....

And of course they HATED having to go out in the rain to do their business... Here is Jasmine looking as pitiful as ever... giving Luke the evil eye to finish his business so she can go back inside....

For the parting shot.....

Our grand entry way.... looking so fresh and clean from all the rain....

A Happy Birthday Day!

Happy Birthday, Kevin!!

Kevin turned 47 years young on Saturday.... we had my mother watch the dogs and we enjoyed a nice long weekend of sleeping in and being lazy. We missed those silly mutts terribly but it was nice to be responsibility free for a couple days! I made him his favorite dinner on Friday, breakfast in bed on Saturday and then took him to Sakura Japanese Steakhouse Saturday night.

Kevin is such a wonderful man, husband and friend. I count my lucky stars every day that I found him!!

Here are a few of my favorite pics of Kevin.

Kayaking down a jungle river in Kauai, Hawaii.....

Just looking cute.....

Training the troops in Iraq....

Holding a baby gator in the Florida Everglades at the Gator Farm....

Taken just moments before our wedding.... = ]

Just being silly......

Happy Beach, St. Maarten...on our honeymoon....

Fishin' in Fredericksburg......

On patrol in Iraq... (actually we were sightseeing)

He's so handsome....

Ships Log...

It was a great day so we took the boat out for a nice easy romp around the bay....

Here I am at the helm....

...while Kevin plays around with his dinghy...

Sandy chillin' out with Kevin in the cockpit.....

Sandy looking at me wondering when I am going to put down that camera and fix her breakfast....

Our sunset view every night.......

Luke on the deck... enjoying the sunset

(actually he's eyeing the King Fisher flying around)

We had a REALLY high tide one night. The boat was so far off the dock it was over my hips! I had to put a little step over the side just so I could climb up!!

Our home at night.... resting quietly in her slip with the water gently lapping at her sides....

Paging, Dr. Pine....Paging Dr. Pine.....

We had our first boating accident.

Poor Luke still has not learned that we need to remove the hatch at the top of the ramp before he can get out. He still forgets that he is a simple dog and cannot walk through walls.

So... it went down like this....

We come back from the store and push back the top part of the hatch to say hello to the doggies. Before we can remove the rest of the hatch.... Luke comes bounding up the ramp and

wham!

Head first into the hatch! Ouch! But that wasn't the bad part! After running snout first into hatch, he then almost tumbles off the ramp onto the floor... but his back haunch got caught on a small shelf... (which has since then been removed) This kept him from tumbling off but it did rip a nice hole in his skin.... (see below)

Kevin is a paramedic and has saved us many trips to the emergency room for us and the vet for the dogs... So, Dr. Pine once again dove into his medical bag to fix up poor old Luke....

After a good wound cleansing and a few stitches, Luke was all patched up....

We put one of Kevin's shirts around him for extra measure to keep him from licking...

(doesn't he look so pitiful?)

Jasmine even jumped up on the bed to snuggle with him during the procedure...she is such a sweet heart.....

And here is the patient.... all doped up sleeping off the drugs.....

It was actually a little cool that night in the boat so all the hounds were wrapped up tight!

Here is Sandy... all snuggled up in her favorite corner!

And last but not least... here is Jasmine doing her ET impersonation....