health and rain and other such things

The dog, Willie, has only been here for 10 days now and he is already growing like a weed. Still doesn't look like he will get *too* big. But just big enough for him to seem like a real dog. If you know what I mean. Seems to be fairly smart--already learning some things. Others are taking a bit. Only chews on his toys, which is great.

In other news, Jenny signed us up for www.bostonorganics.com. They bring us great organic fruits and veggies and drop them off right on our boat. Makes shopping wonderfully easy.

To augment the organic foods we also joined a gym. Holy healthy eh!

Also new to report is that we have a new woodstove. Though I have no pics of it yet. The old one only functioned ok. It had a lot of poor features, some of which seemed dangerous. One of our liveaboard friends still had a stove that he used to use about 5 years ago before he converted to diesel. He let us borrow it to try instead of ours. It is awesome. Old cast iron heavy looking thing. It warms the boat much better and seems safer. We will be striking a deal with him soon which will allow this one to become ours.

thats all for now!
-Justin

Willie

Well, after approximately two or so years of egging each other on to get a dog, Justin and I decided to wait no longer. We are the proud new parents of a 3 month old pup, Willie.

He seems to be a chihuahua/beagle/terrier mix, so we don't think he'll get enormous (he's 7 lbs. currently...we expect that he'll maybe get to be around 20 lbs. or so).

Anyway, onto pictures!!
I'm also going to attempt some video as well.

counter fits

For those who might not remember, we purchased some galley counter tiles a few months back. They have since then resided in their box stuffed underneath our futon. This is, of course, valuable boat storage that could be put to far better use. Given my week off of school for the between the semester break I decided to remedy this problem.

Here is the galley before we purchased the boat.

And here it is after we purchased. We removed the rope looking upright and installed some spice racks there in the background. Trouble being the fake counter top linoleum kinda junk was old and peeling.

A few weeks ago we put some nice stained slider doors in the background cupboards. You can see those here as I began to lay tiles a few days ago.

more work.

Today was grouting day, of which there are no photos since Jenny was at work and not here to take pics of me.


and finally... the finished product!



We are very very happy with the way it looks. Still can't get it wet for a few days til we let it get good and dried before sealing it. Also, notice the new faucet that I installed. You can't tell much from the previous pictures what the old one looked like, but needless to say, the new one is much...newer.

Happiness ensues though.

:)

-Justin

update:
We almost forgot to post some close-ups, so you could actually see what the tiles/grout looks like. We are impressed.


Fun!

-Jenny