Easter Peeps and the Coming Summer

Posted on May 8, 2012 by admin

I went and bought a couple boxes of left over Easter Peeps at our local CVS last Friday. Unfortunately for those of us who live upon the reclaimed Mojave Desert shorelines of California these yellow, sugary and chewy Easter treats are one of the few indications that winter has ended and spring has “sprung.”

I would say that the weather has improved and is not limited to day time temperatures but has extended to the overall activity of our little enterprise at the waters edge. The sun has been visible more days than not and the average temperature has been slightly better than “Alaska” lately.  The new piers are curing in the sun and will be ready for use in the next month or so and the open water in front of the yard is slowly populating with new docks and boats.

It is the writer’s opinion that the coming summer will be far better than the last few and all we can ask for is warmer water, smoother seas and customers who love their boats. 

Please excuse me, these month old Easter Peeps are sooo good!

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Inflammable Bridges

Posted on April 25, 2012 by admin

Do you remember when your parents warned you not to “burn any bridges” and you pictured that flaming “Bridge over the River Kwai?” What a mental picture that was and it was good advice to boot.

We are all growing older and the rivers we are required to cross are multiplying as quickly as the gray hairs on our heads. Many of the bridges we find ourselves crossing rivers upon are complicated and intricate.  Some of them have islands in the middles of them and others just go to nowhere at all.

Today, I find myself upon yet another bridge, crossing yet another river and I feel confident and proud that I kept myself from torching it.  I painted and cared for this particular bridge over the last several years and a fine bridge it is.

Take care of your personal collection of bridges because you never know when the next river you see may need to be crossed and building a new bridge may be too much to handle, especially in these economically challenging times.

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Chigga Chigga Boom Boom Revisited

Posted on April 21, 2012 by admin

Maybe it is just that the body chemistry is functioning properly or maybe the planets and stars are aligned just right but today is a day worth writing about. I didn’t win the lottery but then again maybe I did, at least for this one day.

Arrived at the yard at 0730 to see a crew adamantly digging a ditch across our pier entrance which should have set me off to the moon but I just smiled and processed a solution which just required a few changes to my plans.

We booked a couple of great projects for Monday and rolled along with our day.

Don’t get me wrong, this isn’t my first good day but it certainly is my first good day in many less than good ones which makes it better than average.  

Without any doubt I would expect today to be quickly forgotten under a veneer of issues and problems which I will have seen before but not today and yet they are out there, looming and ready to land upon my shoulders, but I will savor this as one of the good ones.

The wind is calm and the ocean is still, down here at Naupactus.

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