Getting There
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Sun 19 Apr 2015 22:57
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Job List Condition – Getting
There
  The week began with perfection on my side and just a teeny
event on Bears.
 My new tensioning unit and shuttle arrived. Out came the steed to finally end the
sewing jobs, then he can stabled for a long and well deserved holiday. The chap
on the left is seen with a big dent, hence no more zig-zagging. The new chap was
fitted in the blink of an eye and back into the saddle I climbed.
  Bear put the finished cockpit table together and I added the ‘closed’ table
runner.
   The opened
table with table cloth added, maybe time to
christen it with a game of celebratory backgammon. Considering I suggested the
game, I was horrified to be four nil down with quite the money drop, suddenly
fortune and luck reversed and at four all I went into the decider eight dollars
up. Huh. An easy win don’t make me growl,
well less of the bad language then. The game had been played with Bear testing
his undercover, the new cockpit chairs are to be kept
pristine until the sponge fails. We bought two single incontinent sheets, one
now seen as chair-fitted. The seams were sound, what you
think my losing put them sufficiently to the test. I watched the
squirming. Huh.
   The final sewing job began with a
false start as I dropped the pin pot. Car seat covers
are now mid alteration for the cockpit seats. I just
have to remove the waggly bit at the top, where the headrest should be. Slash the edge seam, adding
armrest covers and shorten the whole thing a bit. Meantime Bear has been
pottering about, teak oiled the grab rails and exterior wood, polished the deck,
sealed the gas locker hatches and rode his computers around the office getting
the maps and weather files sorted. Next week we will hopefully, weather
friendly, go out into the next bay to try out this nonsense of sailing,
anchoring and perform some basic sea trials ready for leaving on a decent
weather window next month. Needs to be done and the
water maker needs bringing out of its long holiday, change his filters and look
at his pipes, lucky thing.
 Unfortunately we are unable to identify the creature completely, but we all agree that you are likely dealing with a mollusk. It appears to be either internals of mussels/clam/oyster OR could be a sea slug. It is definitely not an egg. I wish we could be of more help. Good luck! Jenn
Jenn Nero Moffatt | Director of
Husbandry
How thrilled we were to receive this
email. Finally our chap has a name. Oysters are all over the bay, in fact so
prolific, we are going on that suggestion. We cannot thank Jenn and her team
enough for all their help in identifying our chap. Special thanks to Frank –
BARB, who put us in touch with the University.
 The final Mexican train of the week
was a breeze for me. My
nines saw for the first time ever, a complete run of all my fifteen
chaps, that is a winner, unless my dearly beloved checks my progress with an
unanswered double. He did, luckily, I picked and answered without any
interference to my standing chaps. Out I went, Bear was caught with thirteen men
and a loss of one hundred and ninety one........... I
was robbed, I was affronted and dealt with bad luck, I may have to growl quite
loudly, can you make me a Horlicks at the same time. Huh.
ALL IN ALL PLODDING IN THE
RIGHT DIRECTION
RARING TO
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