Today we painted. I taped off everything and made sure it was all roughed up with sand paper. Warren helped me paint, he wasn't great at it, but he had fun and it's only the first coat. I let that dry a bit and then sanded down the old winch
Today Warren and I redrilled the holes for the tiller on the boat. I made sure they lined up right and looked good. I filled in all the cracks I had ground out with a filler compound. It shouldn't expand or contract so it should work good. It has a
This evening Nikki and I had our second day of Pickleball lessons. We learned a lot and both really improved during the lesson. We played on a team for our first game after lessons, and we won that game. The second game we swapped partners around, and I played against
Today after work Warren and I worked on the boat. We pulled off the two winches. I cleaned up the surface as best I could, , and filled the holes with epoxy. The new winches are only 4 holes, I will need to redrill for those. They likely won't line up,
Today we had Warren's Kindergarten field trip to the zoo. I signed up as a chaperone for the trip, and took PTO. Warren had a blast. The best part was the polar bears were super active in the water. One kept swimming a lap and sliding up against the glass
The pork butt took 24 hours to finish. I actually slept later than I wanted too. Through all my alarms. It pulled really easily. It was moist throughout but a little less so on one side. We took it up to my mom's for mothers day. We had a good
I put a 9 pound pork but on the smoker when I woke up in the morning. It should have taken 12 hours, but I am going to bed without it being done. The temp probes on the smokes seem to not be working great. I ordered a wireless one,
Tonight was the start of the play. They did a full dress rehearsal so that parents could go and take pictures during the show. Nikki decided to hang back, so I went instead with my camera. It was a bit tricky with the lighting setup. I had to take a
Today after work we headed over to Jeremaih's to celebrate my mom's dinner. It was a really good time. The food was really good. Service was not terrible, but not good either. They didn't raise a stink that we brought in cupcakes so that was good. The kids were not
Today I got the new mast light installed. It should work pretty good. I used melt splices that should be waterproof and added some heat shrink, so I am hopeful everything will stay tight up there. When I launch I need to remember the windex and the antenna. I will
Sailing
When my boat was at the marina in the Great Salt Lake, in the beginning, any time I went to my boat, the halyards had been wrapped around the stays. I quickly realized that someone, likely a liveaboard, was wrapping my halyards to stop them from knocking on the mast.
Our Fridge sucks, and it stopped making ice with any frequency. So today Sarah came over and did an art project with the kids while we went out and looked around. Really there is no good options for us though. We need a smaller fridge that opens against a wall,
We had a dentist appointment today, the whole family. It went really really badly. They dropped our insurance company. So we paid a huge amount. They didn't do a great job on Nikki, and she had a ton of pain from it. And they asked us to come in sooner
Nikki went in today to read Warren's class a book. He chose Grumpy Monkey, which was a good choice. He also did his mystery box where we had written cluse about what was inside and the kids had to guess. We had bagged two shark teeth for each of the
I started working on the sailboat today. I cleaned up the area that I need to work on and reprinted the 3d part I need for a space and glued it in. The issue is that there are a LOT of wasps in and around the boat. I refilled all
Warren had a soccer game today. It was a lot of fun, he is doing better with each game. He got up in there and was kicking the ball which was really neat. He said he didn't want to push other kids so he stays back, but he is getting