About Me

I'm a bicycle rider. More to the truth I train on the bike to stay fit as I get older. I train to fight off the age. Diebedes, high blood pressure, trigeminal neuralgia, unwanted weight and the problems from that to. There is a host of other age related fun to. I let myself put on 110 pounds over about the last 12 years. Then the body just had enough. I was falling apart. So I started doing the only thing I knew how to do. Train on the bike. I was a competitive Cyclist from 1979 to about 1992. I gave it all up. Bad choice. In the end I would have been far better off on the bike. Oh well. The lessons continue. That's really the truth of it. The lessons continue. Everyday, every moment. Everything is connected all the time. Well, that's how I see the Universe for me. How you see it, is your business. Ah freedom of thought. I got married to a wonderful woman March 21st 2007. The love of my life. It's true! It took all these 58 years to get ready to love this one beautiful woman. A writer of poems. A writer of pros. So many people know her already.

Monday, July 7, 2008

Days of Summer have come at last


Writing has always been hard for me. To put the lines down. To make some sense of it all. All, being the last hour or so. No world shaking changes here. For me just the events of a few days and I have not been writing for many days. To many to go back and make up. There have been days off, rides, walks down to the beach. There have been lots of important and forgotten days. I'm only sorry to have not made a record of the little bits and pieces.
I got my little sailboat off the trailer and into the water for the first time. I found the little boat in Alburn New Hampshire under eve of a metal roof of an auction yard over 2 years ago. It was pouring rain and all the roof water was pouring into the boats cockpit and into the cabin. The boat was flooded. The outboard motor was in the cockpit totally under water. The motor started first pull after I dried it out. The boat must have weight thousands of pounds with all the water on the day I bought her. The dry weight of this little boat is 750lbs. I could not resist the beautiful little sailboat. It is a Siren. Built in Ontario Canada. I won't hold that against the "Little Siren". Yup, that's it's Name, "Little Siren'. Now in the waters of Puget Sound. Moored below the house on the tide flats with 2 other boats. No rent, just set your own anchors and chain and there you are. Better have a dingy to get out and back. That came last winter in a huge storm. The sea gave that day! So the boat is in the water after 3500 mile on the trailer. From New Hampshire to Salem Oregon to here on Whidbey Island. I was so excited to be on the water. I have owned and sailed lots of boats. Big and small. This boat just talked to me and asked me to save it. I paid the auction $450. It had a rusted out trailer under her. I was lucky to get it home. After draining and cleaning I found a nice new trailer. I paid more for the trailer than the boat. So it's in the water. I can look at it everday when ever I want. First sail will be in the next few days. The tides will be just right. I like looking at that boat everyday.
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