One week ago, our rig came off the ship damaged. We didn’t know if it was destroyed or not. One week ago, a couple of kids playing with matches started a brush fire that became a wind driven firestorm that
Thursday, 17 January, 2008 Our rig came off the ship at 6:20AM on Sunday, 14 January. We had a chance to partially inspect the rig later that day and knew it was damaged, perhaps destroyed. We sold our house to clear
File this one under: Mystery of the Universe When we opened up the camper on the docks here in Valparaiso only one thing was out of place. Our wine opener, a heavy, boxed SrewPull, was on the floor. The door on the
We returned to the docks on Wednesday, 16 January, 2008. We were scheduled for an inspection meeting involving three of the parties that operate on the docks: MARVAL, the overall operating company; TPS, the German company that operates the portion of the docks that our ship came into; and San Francisco, the subcontractor to TPS that unloads the ships. On the bus ride back to the meeting I spotted the lift frame that should have been used to lift out our rig. It is stored about 150 feet from where the crew unloaded our rig. Large lift frame.
The ship carrying our Fuso, Seaboard's Thor Nectar, arrived late morning on Saturday, 12 January.
Have you ever been in a new city, in a new country and done something that broke every safe traveling rule you’ve ever been told or learned? Have you ever been in a new city, a gritty port city, a
While we were in Lincoln City, Oregon, Steph arranged for us to learn how to blow glass at the Jennifer L. Sears Glass Studio. I've been interested in learning more about glass blowing for years, so this was a chance to finally have some hands-on experience with the process. We both made hanging glass floats, and had a great time learning how the basic process works. Afterwards I wrote the following story about the experience for our 3 1/2 year old granddaughter, Nakeya: Blowing the Glass Balloon http://www.hackneys.com/docs/glassballoon.pdf For the details of how the process works, please read Blowing the Glass Balloon. Some photos of Steph's experience follow.
In the first light of day, before even the dawn, they come.
Down to the base of the dune cliffs, down to the sea’s edge, they come.
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They come as men have always come, to go down to the sea in small boats.
These boats, the Dorys, and these men, the Dorymen, go to sea in the old way, the way boats and men have always done, directly into the sea, directly over the surf.
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30 July, 2007 Hitt Wash Santa Maria Mountains Northwest Arizona, USA The white Toyota Tacoma pickup slowly moved into the water, dipping its front wheels in gradually and proceeding until the rears were also half submerged. It paused on the river’s shelf with the