Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah and a very Happy Birthday to our son Dominik.

 

With many of our followers wondering what happened to us since my last update, here a few tidbits. Truthfully, it is a struggle sometimes for me. Chimo therapy is a tough one. I sure spent way too much time in hospitals with additional procedures. Even another return ambulance trip from the Chatham hospital to London Hospital for another stent to help me to keep food down. I am way too skinny now but keep my spirits up. so enough of that.

Benno, my loving husband of almost 60 years, drives me everywhere for my procedures and appointments. He is my hero! 

So winter came a bit early in our part of the world. Of course the boat is wrapped up in shrink-wrap  and Benno had finished building the settee benches before the snow showed up. In the fall we had checked out a few upholstery businesses in our area and found a nice shop basically just around the corner from us. The owner must be good at his work because he is very busy. It took a long time for the fabric, which I had chosen, to arrive and then the owner said he was hoping we don’t need the cushions before Christmas, everyone else wants his upholstery done before Christmas he is complaining! Well, the boat is not going anywhere right now, so I guess it doesn’t matter when he gets them done, but I would have liked to show them to you.

I put a tablecloth on the main table that also can be lowered to make a bed in-between the settee benches. On the tablecloth I put a swatch of the material for the cushions, to give you an idea what it might look like.

We purchased an aluminum access hatch for the cockpit. The present one is made of wood and seems to leak water. Not something we want as there will be the generator below as well as some other items. That opening will have to be modified to fit the new hatch, but that has to wait until spring time. Other jobs are also planned for spring and summer, all when the shrink-wrap comes off.

Wishing all our friends and blog readers a wonderful Christmas and holiday season! 

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