Sunday, February 28, 2010

Free Streaming Savanna Samson





It 'a bit' of days that I do not write, our travels from island to island in recent days has given me no way, I have a little 'things happening, but not I know where to start.
start with the time, then. Yes yes, I know that my conversation looks more and more that of an elderly English lady at tea time, yes yes I know that in the civilized world is spoken of the time only in the elevator during the interminable second serve to get to its plan to avoid the embarrassing deathly silence with your neighbor when you have nothing to say in 15 years, but for us sailors time is of the essence, those that can revolutionize your day Copernican.
So here we have gone from a nice ventazzo to 30 knots, the calm (missing only the ghost ship of Arthur Gordon Pym horizon), and today, just to accept, we did traversatina from paper to a person under an unbroken curtain rain, zero visibility, the usual beat, and no autopilot, so if Alex has helmed all water under the heavens he sent her, while I cowardly retreat in the boat with the excuse that I had to look after the fragile girls (very good all the time). Today
Vanda has gone, Clare was immediately dissolved into tears, Anna put up a fierce scowl and weathered stoically and then eventually sold it yourself, we change gear and then we go from basic to advanced level, or the ratio in favor of 3 adults against 2 girls, 2 to 2 against, clash of titans, last year the girls have swept the the game, but we play this year and Ale, and I sell life dearly, we look like and draw.
To complicate a bit 'us (otherwise what good is, we may even think of being on vacation in the Caribbean!) Have taken a number of factors, the first of which is the fault of our small fridge, that will not cool enough and that makes me fear for the future of my four pounds of cheese and 4 pounds of ham. The fish, alas, can not resist, and therefore We have to eat, or at least cook it the same day that we fish and can not be preserved.
Also, what I was initially been declassified as a minor sunburn on the neck of Clare, has expanded in recent days to the forearms, then the legs and the trunk now, changing my first diagnosis in a mysterious far-fetched rash-type virus, and finally in impetigo. This hypothesis is currently the most plausible.
nothing serious and a bit 'of Genatlyn Beta can not cure, but since the rash does not get along with sun, sea and sand, it must be admitted that the context I am not much help, especially when it comes to explain to a child of two desperate years she must remain in the boat with his mother and father and sister, they go on the raft at the beach.
The sister, who usually greets her viciously with his hand, and does not even make the effort to sound hypocritically sorry.
I'm coming too! No you do not.
I'm coming too! No you do not.

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Quality Of Bushnell Legend Scopes?

Doldrums


Hey! When I said I wanted less wind did not mean no wind! For two days it does not breathe a breath, the sea here in Key West is an area Hollandes standing perfectly still. By boat there are a billion degrees, with humidity of a trillion per thousand, the mood of the crew (except Vanda, she is always smiling and positive) is mangy.
In my list of impossible desires, the desire for a decent Internet connection, which always leads the way with several lengths ahead of the rest, was suddenly overtaken with a savage shot entirely unexpected, the dream of a freezer, the which to extract large abundance of ice to slide between her breasts, neck and back, I miss Kim Basinger in 9 weeks and 1 / 2.
In second place, continuous approach, running at constant speed the desire of a giant industrial washing machine with a load of at least 10 pounds, which throw the entire contents of the boat textiles, which after two weeks of salt air and nights agitation, it is ominously moist and sticky, certainly colonized by unicellular organisms (well, we hope that they are only single-celled!).
In third place, the Internet referred to above, as always dream of endless browsing sessions cybernetics into the equivalent of the modern library of Alexandria, but for now here's just the classic cruise ...
So, let's see if we can make a fine tuning of weather conditions: less wind of 30 knots, but more 'zero knots of wind. For the rest, on board all right, although the list of features that should not have a beach for Anna, that is a) dogs b) or hermit crabs now been joined by c) algae.
We hope that you also add d) starfish) shells and finally f) sand, otherwise we're screwed!
you tomorrow, I'll roll the trackwheel Weather ...

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Finger Joint Pain Pregnancy

cayo Hollandes


Yesterday we moved from Coco Bandera and now we are here in front of Barbecue Island and this anchor, with its wide-ranging landscape of the reef, it's always nice to see, even if the beaches are a bit ' further from reach with the boat.
Barbecue Island, as its name makes little sense native, is an island whose maintenance is paid for entirely by tourists, because there is no family home to Kuna. Un'erbetta green and a bit 'prickly take root on the island was done with patience and determination, then the island has, from the leeward side, a kind of English lawn that gives it a distinctive look a bit 'tame. But just do around the island and reach the windward side, and the vision of the ocean reef roaring on her return to the island untouched wilderness.
Instead I renamed Barbecue Island Crab Island, because it is full of crabs and hermit crabs in shells of various shapes and sizes, and as soon as you stop walking, the sand core in a swarm of claws and legs.
But Anna is afraid of the crabs, then yesterday the circumnavigation of the islet has been done with a little girl clinging to the leg of Alessio, who screamed, "There, Dad I'm afraid, Dad! Help, Dad. "Something tells me that tomorrow we will change anchor!
About Anna, here recorded my first serious attempt to remove the pacifier, I just hope that does not turn into civil war that was the last year for the diaper, Anna has honed his psychological techniques, we start the morning with a "Mom, I do not feel very good, I feel the bad mood, I can suck a little 'me go?", then it is the turn of "Mom, you know For me it is very difficult to stop sucking "and ending with the trump card" Mom, I feel sad and I really need to suck a bit, 'I need it. "clearer and more basic, she just cries, and shouts "I want my uaaaahhhhh ciuccioooooooooooo.
you tomorrow!

Friday, February 19, 2010

Wine And Heart Palpitations







After the big scare, we regained our coveted Caribbean routine (I do not need other emotions, I want a boring life!). It's all right, Anna is healed, though his mood is wavering and the relationship with her is sometimes difficult, but we expected because she is not easy to give exclusive attention to the load that had in recent days to return to normal.
Time is not the best, windy and dance a bit, 'because the anchor of Coco Bandero is more exposed than others, gray-blue these days I will automatically make a comparison with last year, and anchoring in the same period there had been a week with the wind at 35 knots, and I was locked in the boat all day in a few square feet with two girls, one and two years. To shoot.
hindsight, and a year later, the scope of the experience of last year, with its load of trouble and effort, I get more obvious and can be more lenient with myself and with the memory of those moments when I was overwhelmed by fatigue and alienation of being a parent without a break.
This year, in comparison, I think everything incredibly easy, I wonder whether my threshold of tolerance to be changed, if it is I who have become more patient, or perhaps better at managing things, or if girls are simply become bigger, more collaborative, more autonomous, more obedient, and conclude that is a combination of all these things.
The girls are in great shape, today I watched their games and I was covered in the event that the coordination developed by dint of running and walking on a surface in constant motion, filled with obstacle courses.
This year, they found old playmates and they have earned the new Coco Bandero currently there are 5 children, including my own, aged between a year and a half and 3 and a half years, and watch them play all together yourself is always a great satisfaction for us parents, especially for those of us who last year had to constantly resolve their differences on the toys (do not say they have disappeared, but have become acceptable ).
So, they play and we talk about older, more often than the pieces that they broke on our boats, a bulletin of war, our girls now they are collapsing.
the way, after the autopilot and the wind vane, also our two bilge pumps have resigned after distinguished career, Alexis has made a crock of luck that is not destined to last, just as well that are coming Gigi and Carlotta with pump parts from Italy.
It seems that this time not to peak coleremo!

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Wrinkle Filler For Above The Lips

Cinofobia Beach life, that the tragedy touched


Only today, 48 hours away from one of the most terrible days of my life, I can put hand on the keyboard to write about what happened to us.
Anna was savaged by a dog that bit her repeatedly on the forearm, thigh, stomach and groin, before it pulled away Vanda.
It 'been a while, there was no warning, the dog had given no sign of imbalance, no threatening attitude, no growling or teeth bared, nothing that would indicate what would happen.
Anna stretched out his hand to open a coconut half, maybe the dog saw her, maybe for him it was food, the fact is that something is tripped and a second later the air was full of desperate cries of Anna, and my, while I rushed with his bare hands into the dog savaged my little girl to the ground, his head full only NO NO NO.
Only after taking her away, safe in my arms, and he saw that his throat and face were intact, the blood that stained my shoulder came from the bite on the forearm and that no stain of blood spreading out Anna on pink swimsuit, only then I began to think again, trying to regain control of the nerves to sing the soothing lullaby that all mothers have always known "is not no love, it's nothing, it's all past, do not be afraid, do not cry love."
For me, at that point it was time for action, not despair. There were many things to do: to disinfect wounds, to decide whether to adopt and which antibiotic prophylaxis, whether to make a dressing open or occluded, find out if rabies is endemic in this area, if and where to get the vaccine and possibly how long We had to administer it effectively.
Many thanks to my friend Elizabeth for the efficient and exhaustive supply of information which I provided rapidly in all confirmed also by the medical center Narganà to where we immediately direct the bow and where we arrived after 3 hours of navigation.
The rabies vaccine is administered solely as a result of direct rat bite or bat, the dog rabies in the area of \u200b\u200bPanama is not much less in the archipelago of San Blas.
Two days away from happening, the swelling on the forearm of Anna is almost gone, the wounds of bites are beautiful and there are no signs of infection. Will not any visible sign, to prevent the invisible ones are already working to prevent terror burrow tried to hatch inside of her to jump out at night to paint the black of his dreams.
As for me, post traumatic shock did not miss his appointment Late: after releasing the tears in the arms of Alex, enclosed in our bunk after an endless day, and after the torture of if, and but, and I could have and should have, 48 hours from happening I can not yet to shake the image of my child under the dog and from what could have happened.
And at night I can not sleep well, I'm anxious dreams where thieves and assassins sneak into the house and threaten me to death, or lose air, I have no documents or money, and I do not know where they are and not who I am and I feel fear and loss.
I hope that the next few days, here in the beautiful anchorage of Coco Bandera, where we landed in the meantime, bring me some 'peace and serenity.
A hug to my family and friends and friends who love us, Anna is fine, nothing happened and this is irreparable, the important thing, and I will take up as usual.

Sunday, February 14, 2010

How Do Cats Get Virus





We're back in San Blas, a year later, after 3 days at sea relatively calm, although long and sometimes difficult, also because of the fact that they broke (altri!) two instruments important to navigation, or the autopilot and the indicator of wind direction. Patience for the wind direction indicator, even though I at the helm I feel greatly missed, and if it is true that in pace upwind (as in a day past) I can help it, it is equally true that downwind and especially downwind or downwind full I do not feel calm at the helm without a vane.
serious loss, however, is that the autopilot, because in fact the failure of the autopilot off virtually Alessio to its total self-sufficiency in handling all ages and condition, and forces him at the helm the whole time. In these days of sailing, when it was necessary for me to take the helm to allow Ale or maneuvering on the sails on the route, the girls were very brave and obedient, remaining in place in the cockpit alone, however, while surfing through the very long run out of autopilot is not really the best.
During the long voyage yesterday (7 hours) we caught a sgombretto for dinner, the excitement of the big boys, even though, as always, you always have to deal with the grief of these silver fish kill, including applications for Anna: "Mom, but now he's dead?" "Yes Anna" "But why is he dead?" "Fish out of water because they can not live" so why we pulled out of the water? ". In short, the boat will also learn the system maximum, life, death, missing only the miracles, but really, to want to look closely, there are also those, sometimes!

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Congratulations Wording For Baby Just Born

parties arrived in San Blas!





is part of an hour. We expect 4 hours sailing close-hauled.
Maldimare assured, I trust only in pharmaceutical chemistry.
I asked Anna if you prefer or maldimare Valontan supposed to, we thought very strongly about and then he said: "I think I prefer the supposed, Mom."
So be it.

Be merciful Poseidon!

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Motorbike Birthday Cake With Instructions

The acronym stands for mildega

is the acronym mildega created under his own name

Daniela King
D eledda Grace - Reeds in the wind Spunta_progressi
A Mman Nicholas - I take you away Spunta_progressi
N ajjar Alexandre - Phoenicia
Spunta_progressi
I van Turgenyev - First Love Spunta_progressi
E Vangelisti Valerio - Tortuga Spunta_progressi
L uciano Ligabue - Out and Inside the village Spunta_progressi
A Augias Corrado - What Stallions Spunta_progressi

Progress
February 21: After the book corresponding to the letter D Smile 4!
March 1: After the book corresponding to the letter A Smile 4!
March 25: After the book corresponding to the letter N Smile 4!
March 27: After the book corresponding to the letter I Smile 4!
May 6: After the book corresponding to the letter E Smile 4!
May 11: After the book corresponding to the letter L Smile 4!
May 15: After the book corresponding to the letter A Smile 4 !

Acronym finished Winner

Manfrotto 055xprob Uneven

To start with ... maybe!



Nothing, we are still here, caught up in Shelter Bay.
All attempts to repair our alternator went frustrated, on the other hand, the bad reputation of Panama as a remedial course has sound basis, since the electrician does not seem to know at all what he is doing.
Oh well, tomorrow we leave, compared with the alternator (ie reserve), and peace for the days lost in vain.
Life in the sea is common to all the sailors in the same routine from Desperate Housewives, who is committed to polish the brass, who rubs the bridge, who does two hours of traferta on the bus to the marina to go to town to shop, who makes holes in the mountains of spending whole days in the laundry room.
About Laundry, in fact, the human interaction generated by the existence of only 4 washers and 3 dryers throughout the entire marina is an interesting starting point for any social scientist. The thin layer of
civilization built through years of rules, etiquette civil society, and severely thinned in a couple of weeks of life in the boat, he finally shatters at the prospect of spending the whole day in the laundry room, 35 degrees C, pending is a free washer or dryer. Women
competitive structure hovering like weasels in a poultry house, gazing machines with hungry eyes and waiting for a moment of distraction of the other, an urgent bodily need, a phone call or some other unexpected stroke of fate to throw himself on the appliance as soon as free .
Meanwhile, the men assembled, dismantled, hammer, loosening, screw, weld, smadonnano and adjustments.
But, at least, they will enjoy it!

joke, eh (but not too much!).