For the kids’ 2nd birthday I decided to make them a play kitchen. It all started when I saw a cool one online that someone had made based on an Ikea nightstand. At first I had planned to just do the same, but since we have no Ikea here, we had to start from scratch instead (actually Ikea would have happily sent me one of their $20 nightstands, if I had happily paid them $40 in shipping). The kids and…
We spent the remembrance day long weekend out sailing with our friends on Rampart. The weather was beautiful and clear, but cold! there was frost on the decks soon after the sun went down and we had to run our diesel fireplace all night. However, we bundled up and had a great time, we went to the beach, visited back and forth between boats, and even did a bit of sailing. Here’s the crew on iceberg watch Sunset sail (at…
Well this blog was sorely neglected, but we’ve had a great summer. We moved back aboard the boat for 3 months and also moved from Gabriola to Salt Spring Island. We sailed quite a bit, short one-night trips mostly, but we made an effort to look super cool when we were out there, and we took some friends, and we always ate a lot of snacks. Summer baths were had in the cockpit (Where Nyah did her best Astro-Boy impression)….
We’ve never been to Montague harbour, so now that it’s only an hour and a bit from our home port we decided to hop over there for the weekend. We woke up Saturday morning and headed out, the advantages of being back aboard for the summer! We found a private beach, where Nyah tried to follow Doug out on a limb, with eventual success. Our sweet ride. When we got back aboard West spent considerable time making the perfect nest…
Way back in September we decided that since our family had suddenly doubled in size we would need a new dinghy. Unfortunately we wanted it all, something both big (enough for all 4 of us) and small (enough to be easily lifted and stored aboard), something cheap (in dollars) and high end (in construction). The laws of both physics and economics were against us. Nothing fit the bill until Doug got the idea that we would build a nesting dinghy….
Awwwww! Aaahhhh!
. . . but you shouldn’t make an impromptu stop at the beach if you do.
This past weekend we had a little holiday down to Saltspring on the boat. Despite being nervous about how the kids would handle it, everything went really well. They slept ok, they even napped, and they were fine with 5 hours of boat travel each way. On the way down we had to motor and the kids enjoyed being out in the cockpit. This crew member enjoyed it so much that despite getting very sleepy (maybe it was the 5am…
I have to preface this by saying that I’m not really a big fan of screens for entertaining kids. We don’t have a tv (although we do have computers, which really are not that much different) and I like the computer a lot. I know makes me a hypocrite (and I’m sure the kids will be happy to point this out to me soon), but regardless, deep down inside I firmly believe that it rots your brain. ANYways . ….
It looks like Nyah needs to get more exposure to song birds and less exposure to sea birds. For West there’s very little hope either way.