No Wake Law

You may have read a few months ago about a houseboat that burned due to spilled cooking oil.  Well the whole story is that there's a no wake law on Lake Union and some folks just don't pay a whole lot of attention to that.  They think that going kind of slow is the same thing.  But when you're docked, it's not.  The folks in that houseboat were just living their lives, cooking dinner when wakes hit the boat.  On boats, you use gas stoves because electric stoves pull just too much amperage.  So, spilled cooking oil is a big deal.

This morning, some big wakes hit my boat, causing several things to fall, including a lamp.  Lampshade completely destroyed.  No big deal, but drives the point home.  When you live on a boat, you're aware of the wake, but it's not the same as a boat that goes out on open water where you completely secure everything.  I passed living on the Duwamish because the no wake law is very regularly broken.  Stuff to think about when thinking about living on the water.

I'm back!

I've been absent since my office flooded and I got distracted.  There was a sewage backup for the building and invaded my office.  Everything had to be removed, sanitized, and either replaced or returned.  I was at the office every day while the plumbers and restoration crew worked, then saw patients after they left for the day.  What a mess! 

But I'm back and will try to catch up.  This afternoon, I installed a new tv antenna and it seems to work great!  I was using a small leaf antenna up until today and it worked pretty well, but whatever antenna you use has to constantly adjust with the movement of the boat.  Now, my picture is clear and doesn't seem to get lost like it did before.  The next thing to tackle is getting a converter for the big tv and see if that works.

I thought the new marina would be darker than the previous one, but it's been the exact opposite.  I've put an extensive garden on the back deck and it's done really well.

On the upper deck, my hydrangea is still blooming.  ZhouZhou tried to be patient, but finally ate the yellow squash plant with the tasty blooms and baby squash.  Now that it's gone, she's been thinning the kale.  I had to grow the kale garden twice, because a goose actually came on board and dug out a nest in the kale, leaving me a couple of eggs.  It was a good exchange.

 

Soon, I'll have to build the frame for a makeshift greenhouse and add a light to keep the tomatoes coming.  There's still time for that.

I also have to get used to washing the outside of my home as well as the inside.  Not only do I get lots of dirt from being near the road, but there's lots of spiders with their many, many webs.  Sorry, all you folks that don't like spiders.  There's lots of them around here.  So much to do.