Work Day 2- Violet’s take.

My mom and dad have been at the yard fixing Chickadee a lot so Lily and I have been home alone mostly on our ipads or eating. I am making a movie on iMovie, it is about us in the Bahamas.

Yesterday and the day before a little chick and her mom have been coming on our porch and they are here right now!!!

We went down to the beach yesterday and we were swimming all day!!!

The chick and her mom are making me soooooo annoyed because they peep sooooooooooooooooooo loud!!!!!!!!

THE BUGS ARE KILLING ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I miss the snow sooo much but I kind of like the thought that it’s winter, and we’re warm.

MOM NOTE: The chicken and her charge are actually INSIDE the house now, so we’re wrangling them back out. My guess is that our predecessors fed them goodies.

We’re off to move our things, and take up residence in another place for a few days, while Chickadee is still a work zone and uninhabitable. The place we’re headed is a hurricane house in that it was damaged in the storm, but the price is right, and who needs floors and walls?!

Mom and wee one, who cluck and cheep their way around (and at times IN) our spaces throughout the day.

The lamp’s new ‘color’ gives an idea of the glass dust cleanup down below. Ick.

About Salvio.

S-usan A-ndy L-ily (SAL) became SALVio when our Violet was born, both acronyms given to us by dear friends and fellow sailors. While I don't mind explaining its origin here, the assumed repetition of that story to explain our boat name is the reason we sail aboard Chickadee, and not Salvio. However, Salvio sails nonetheless. Having worked and lived aboard sailboats in the early years of our relationship, we knew that it was only a matter of time before we got back to floating. Our ten year plan really was just that, we're proud to say, and here we are, ten years after the itch began again, stealing away for as many winter months as our lives will allow.

About Chickadee.

Chickadee is a 1990 Catalina 34. It took longer than it should have for SALVio (SA, really), to get over ourselves and our Southwest Harbor, Maine, Hinckley/Morris ways of thought to find the right boat for the family, but in the end we did. Production 'plastic' and we couldn't be happier for our current needs- we have two staterooms, and can fit all four of us around the table without anyone having to sit on the other side of the salon to eat: our two major goals. Extra bonuses include a good size cockpit, a solar panel and a walk-out transom for ease of swimming and getting on and off the dinghy.