Day 6, Year 7: Stuck in the Mud
Date: Monday, November 14, 2011
Weather: Still Windy and Unseasonably Warm
Location: Brewer Fiddler’s Cove Marina, N Falmouth, Massachusetts
I feel a little like I am walking in sticky mud. Every time I try to take a step forward, my shoe gets stuck in the mud. Settling into life as a non-cruising live aboard is tougher than I thought it would be. For six years we have traveled the world and every day was an adventure. When you are not traveling, life is quite different. We are trying to figure out life as land lubbers, but right now I think we both feel a bit lost. Slowly we’ll find our rhythm. But for me that is going to mean that I have the time to write down all of the “articles” swimming in my head from our past experiences. There are so many things I want to share about our last six years. I started writing and then lost everything I had written when my external hard drive crashed. That was a real set-back and I’m still stuck in that mud. I’m also trying to get our photos from our first year transferred from one online data base to another and trying to get our Year 1 logs in the same format as the other five years. I spend at least three hours a day just working on those issues. At the same time, I know you can’t spend all your time thinking about yesterday. A high school assistant principal once said to me, “Judy, if you are still thinking about what you did yesterday today, then you haven’t done anything worthwhile today.” Maybe the real problem is that there are just not enough hours in the day. Mark just looked across the table and said, “Only four or five weeks and the days start getting longer again.”
