Sail Felix

Life h angs on a very thin thread and the cancer of time is complacency. If you are going to do something, do it now. Tomorrow is too late. - Steve Goss Thanks Pavy ! I completed my week of physical therapy up in the mountains deer hunting with my brother. Thanks Mike for taking care of everything and finally, after a few frustrating days, putting me in front of one. The pic above is of the two Madison County bucks that he dropped while sitting in the same spot last Wednesday, while his buddy Darrel and I got to sit and stare at the relentlessly unmoving trees for 10 hours. The funny thing about luck though is that everyone eventually gets their turn at some. I got my opportunity on the morning of our last day hunting, when after walking into the woods only 200 yards from the truck we jumped a deer up. Mike and Dean let the sick boy from out of town go ahead and try to stalk the deer while they hung behind watching. Being a young and not so wary deer, I was able to sneak up and get a ...

Every Veteran at some point when they enlisted, wrote a blank check to their Country and Government payable for any amount up to and including their life. A fitting day for my first blog entry in a long, long while since I spent all of last week in the Veteran's Hospital in Richmond . I was admitted for a case of perforated diverticulitis with an abscess . The care I received was great, and I'm extremely thankful for it because like 1 in every 5 Americans I have no health insurance. We came up here to Deltaville for the summer, arriving a little late, and it seems we've been captured for the winter. Star is working part time at West Marine, and had a brief stint selling boats for Gratitude Yacht Sales . After working the Annapolis Boat Show, she was 'let go' last week when she chose to visit me in the hospital rather than sit in the office/residence of the managing broker for no pay. She was told her 'priorities are wrong'. Some jobs just aren't wort...

Sometimes when I reflect on all the beer I drink, I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams shattered. I think, 'It's better to drink this beer and let their dreams come true than to be selfish and worry about my liver.'" - Babe Ruth Went and checked on the Opel electric car project vehicle today. We were going to tow it back to the shop, but have a few obstructions to clear along the path out of the woods, and need to take some air for the tires back with us. We'll make a thorough inspection of the underbody once we get it back to the shop. The body is a little rough, but nothing that can't be fixed. Sweet lines!!

" I think a man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible human doctrine and the hardest to disprove, and to ride on this like a raft over the waters of life ” - Plato This weekend we went over to West Virginia for an adventurous time of camping and Whitewater Rafting to celebrate Star's birthday. Well, camping in a cabin, which you can see behind Star in the picture. We don't like to rough it too much anymore. :-) We used the outfit Rivermen , and rafted the lower New River. A first class operation, we have nothing but good things to say about the staff, facilities, and operation. I would definitely recommend them and use them again. We signed up for the package deal, two nights in the cabin and 3 meals on Saturday for the 6 of us; Big Joe and little Joe, Big Wes and little Wes, and Star & I. While we sort of expected greasy burgers and hot dogs , we were happily surprised to find that like everything else, the ...

" Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people " Eleanor Roosevelt Tesla Roadsters , running the 1/4 mile drag strip in 12.4 seconds, 121 mph; Hagerstown , MD. Next time you fill up your car with gas, think about where your money is going. We send 6 Billion dollars a month overseas for oil! They are building indoor ski slopes in Dubai with your money . 70% of the oil we use goes towards transportation. We need to shift our transportation to electric, it's in our national interest. Plain and simple. I really don't care much about all the tree hugging, greenhouse gas, pollution part; but it's so clearly in our nation's best interest to quit using more oil than we can produce ourselves. Patriotism is not putting a little yellow sticker on the back of your SUV, it's about doing something that helps your country. This weekend my Dad and I went to the electric car show and drag race in Hagerstown , MD . Apparently electri...

“Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they only unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows us what we’ve become.” - Brooke Foss Wescott This quote doesn't really have anything to do with the post, but I read it this morning and liked it. I know, I know,.... I haven't updated the blog in a while. We've just been real busy, and haven't travelled anywhere and this was originally a travel blog. That's my brother Mike holding up a double hookup of Croaker, which we slayed last weekend fishing around Gwynn's Island. We've been catching plenty of little croaker, but not much else. If only the water were a little more clear --------------> We've been hard at it, trying to find steady work to keep this champagne lifestyle running on our beer budget. Times are tough everywhere, and Deltaville isn't exactly a metropolis, but it's a great little place an...

"Men go b ack to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up." Henry David Thoreau This weekend my brother Mike and his daughters Megan and Brittany came down from the mountains to go sailing on Felix. The weather cooperated and we had a great weekend of sailing, fishing, and buzzing about in the dinghy. With overcast skies and 10-15 knot breezes we headed out of Jackson Creek Saturday morning and sailed into the Bay on a beam reach. Early on we caught a small bluefish while trolling a piece of squid, and sailed back and forth for a couple of hours before anchoring to spend a while bottom fishing. Mistakenly, we anchored by some charter boats, thinking they knew where the fish were, and got skunked. The girls were naturals, and seemed to take right to this boating stuff like it's in their genes. After returning to the dock and securing Felix back in her slip, we launched our inflatable with the 15 hp ...