pam's here with me!

my best pal and wife has joined me for a little less than a week now, and sharing life here in deltaville upon cricket with her has made this stay much, much more of a joy than it already had been!

pam and i have already been working on the boat together, kayaking together, meeting and making friends together, walking together, biking together, road tripping together, farmer’s marketing together, dancing together... whew! and much more... together! it is said that joy shared is twice joy. true!

this morning when we woke up lila was just getting back from her night of carousing. she replaced us on the bow bunk and went straight to sleep as we got up and started our day. pam took a shower and headed to the office, while i made coffee, scraped a few more of our wooden blocks to prepare them for varnishing. it’s nice when the wooden block workshop and pam’s office are right across cricket’s cockpit from each other. i’d look up from my prepwork to take a sip of coffee and see pam at her laptop with a backdrop of the boats anchored in the little bay near us!

now that’s good working conditions! our friend kurt came up the ladder to join us for the last of our morning coffee in the cockpit. nice morning!

i took one of the deltaville marina bikes into town to get a few things for the boat while pam continued to work in “the office.” i may or may not have snuck an ice cream sandwich in on my way back from town.

later we both hopped on the bikes and took a lovely tour of sting ray point, the end of the peninsula we are now living on. we biked through a cute little camp ground, waded on their beach and admired some of the unusual and quaint setups for folks to live the “camper life” like the old camper with the big screened in porch attached, or the old pilot house attached to a camper with a huge screened in porch attached, or an old motorboat blocked upright with a big protective roof built over the whole thing and a big screened in porch attached. you get the idea, i think. we also stopped at a cute little rental house with a sweet beach to look around (the sign in front said to come on in to see), and while we were there the owner showed up in

her car with her two wiener dogs and greeted us with warm smiles and invited us in to check the place out. keaton gave us the tour of the place, which was very lovely, but her personality was even more lovely. she’s a retired biology teacher living a simple life on the bay. she loves her place and her grandkids, which we could already tell by the playful way the place is set up with toys and places for kids to adventure and make little discoveries around this tiny piece of heaven.

this evening we met in the marina lounge with our good friends from last year, darrell and nancy to take a virtual tour from chesipeake bay all the way up the coast to nantucket island. they’ve been this way quite a bit, and this is where we’re planning on going this summer, so it was great to hear of all the places to see, spots to anchor, currents to avoid and routes to take. with their charts spread out on the table, and our boating tour-book right next to it, and darrell and nancy telling tales of their adventures it was almost like being there... almost. oh my! there will be soooo much to explore this summer and fall! yipppeee! it was great to have already gone there tonight!

tomorrow morning at 10:00am we go to the bahamas!