It has been a while! But I am back writing, and trying to pick up where we left the 1st of October. First, happy new year! Although March is already up ahead, I wish for 2024 that all the governments lead with righteousness, and all beings on earth may live…
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Visiting Octo & Hammer Time
One of the things I love to do the most, is snorkeling in the ocean and look at all the beautiful creatures just busy doing their thing. Peter had the idea, already some time ago, to visit a reef octopus and give him some shrimp. The last time, we missed…
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Getting in the Rhythm
Peter made a lot of progress! The boxes for the batteries are ready and one with the batteries is installed, together with the electric motor and controller. He is going to add some cooling elements around it (I don’t know what exactly yet), but overheating of the controller seems to…
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Chicks & Business
Chicks We discovered a nest! Just beside the fence a bit back in the garden. A very cute white chicken is sitting on it. She probably hoped we wouldn’t see it, but the camouflage was missing on our side, so we could look in the nest and counted five eggs!…
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Back to LIV
After weeks of doing everything else but working on LIV, we are finally back! As I wrote in the previous blog, I felt a bit of a threshold for going back. I was afraid new rust had formed and we had to start at zero again. Unfortunately, my forebodings were…
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GREAT Developments
It is 20:41 pm as I write this. Peter is in the background, making funny noises. He had a drink with a good friend/co-worker, and I think he had fun. I really want to stick to my schedule and release an update today, so I better stay a bit focused….
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Blitz-moving – Part 2: Where are we?
Yes, we moved again. This time to a very pretty house, with a beautiful garden, where we can stay until the 10th of October. We don’t have to look for anything after that, because by then the boat will be in the water. Dream big! For that to happen we…
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Throwback Thursday – Part 5: Some More Salon Work
The last time I was not quite finished with the salon part! So, I figured I could make a second part and next week the third to cover the removal of the bench on the port side. For this week, I made a couple of videos that cover a fraction…
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Throwback Thursday – Part 3: Reality-TV
When I go through all the material we’ve shot the last months, sometimes I find videos or pictures that I don’t like the first time I saw them back, but the second time I watch it, I think, oh well, this was quite a good representation of our mood that…
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Blitz-moving
A short update: Last Thursday (the 29th of June) I was happy to post a blog again, I felt content with the video’s and ready to start a draft for a new one, but then… Peter was talking about the different options for us to stay from the 1st of…