Quick Postcard

A few pics from the last few days -- for one reason or another everything has a yellowy-greenish glow:

My Aunt Doris has new cats: Marsh(mellow) and Yum(Yum). Are they cute or what??

Last week was spent determining I have no signs of heart disease so that is good news:

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And here's my latest knitting project -- a sweater for a little girl we know.

That's all for now!

Sailing Sailing Over the Ocean Blue. . .

This little blog, in which I used to take great pleasure and care with, will just lay here mostly dormant until I can disengage from this stupid church committee. I'll say no more about it but it is making me lose my religion.

The news here is really Duncan's -- he's thrown himself in with the Coast Guard Auxiliary and is now consumed with classes and meetings and reading navigational charts and -- amazingly enough -- cooking!

They offer, and he attended, an Auxiliary Chef course back in February, and now he is a USCG Auxiliary Food Service Specialist. He went down to Clearwater Florida with another fellow, Joe. and they had a great time together. They are like the grumpy old men, -- Joe is the sunny one and Duncan is the curmudgeon. But now they are cooking buddies and work some weekends in the galley at the Coast Guard station here in Charleston which is down on The Battery -- and a  couple of times they have gone out on working cutters for 3 - 4 day stints. Duncan can actually take up to 45 days a year as "military leave" from his job to do this. He is a happy boy.

Joe is a Public Affairs guy and travels with camera -- so all of these pics are thanks to him.

Here they go, off on a 4-day assignment.

Here's how their days started.

Getting Busy

This is what they came for.

Mission Accomplished

Here are some of the boat's crew. Duncan and Joe were cooking for about 15 all together. All these young guys called Duncan and Joe the FOFs -- Funny Old Farts -- so I take it everyone had a pretty good time.