Thursday, September 20, 2007

9 Years on 40 feet? Oy! Ahoy!


We had the great pleasure of meeting and dining with friends-of-friends-now-friends Anne and Martin. Out in the hinterlands of Port Moody, BC (about 30 miles from Vancouver), these two spent nine YEARS of their lives on a smallish sailing craft, circumnavigating the earth. Oh, and five more on the boat in a Vancouver marina in preparation.

Their website tells the tale better than we could; what we can say is they are gracious hosts, interesting folks, and good cooks too.

Photo from http://www.norsiglar.com. Check out story -- and their interesting book.

This is one of those "six degrees of separation" things. I don't usually put a lot of stock in to this notion but in this case it's worked for us: We met new friends Chris & Ann on a segment of the lengthy cruise we'd made the previous year. THEY'd made friends with Anne & Martin on another cruise. We've got a home in British Columbia, Anne & Martin have a home in British Columbia. "Oh! You must meet them!". The rest is history.

-scott

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Saturday, August 25, 2007

The Door


This summer we bought a condo unit immediately adjacent to the one we already owned here in Vancouver, BC. So a lot of our time spent here this year has been preparing it for occupancy (furnishings, paint, network and telephone for example). And then there's the door.

The two condos share two walls. One is a closet on one side and the kitchen on the other, the 2nd is a non-bearing wall. Our big project was to install a pocket door within that wall.

We got one quote for the work -- $2300, which, based on current exchange rates between the US and Canada, would be about US$2299.99 -- a lot in any case! However, Kathy's Dad was up for the task, so we "imported" him from Michigan to do/oversee the task. Scott and Jack did most of the "work work", Kathy took care of the substantial clean-up task. Since we're on the 11th floor, all the materials have to go up the elevator, and all the trash back down -- a bag at a time.

The work's almost completed. The dust could still be around for years.

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