Christmas Pirate's Booty

What a haul this Christmas! We received so many great things for the boat. I think the sleeper in all these riches is the portable, manual table-top washing machine. If it will do a set of sheets, like it claims, we'll be able to do most of our laundry right on the boat! Susan thanks for the Garmin Chart-plotter. Andrea and Jordan thank you for all the other wonderful things (they gave us the washing machine)! Now all I have to do is install everything or find a place on the boat to store it. Life is good!
Fair winds & Smooth sailing,
Lawrence  S/V  Elle & I

Merry Christmas!

Very Merry and a Happy, Healthy New Year. We'll see you on the water in our floating home the S/V Elle & I in just 5 months! Fair winds & Smooth sailing,
Elaine & Lawrence

Pneumonia, a few months, & retire

For the second time in my life, I got pneumonia. I'm better now, but for a few weeks I was not a happy camper. We have 5 1/2 months till we plan to be living on the boat. First we get to spend Christmas with our son and his family. We still have a lot of packing to do in the house. It's going to get really busy from here till June.
Fair winds & Smooth sailing,
Lawrence  S/V Elle & I

Inflation and the SSA

Well, gosh, thanks to ever present inflation the SSA is going to allow me to earn around $14600.00 in 2012. So that means I'll be able to work for one additional week in 2012. So that means that my retirement date has changed to Wednesday, May 30, 2012. We can certainly use the extra cash going into retirement, but it gets better. Retirees will also be getting a COL (cost of living) increase in 2012. The first since 2009!! Yippee!!!
Fair winds & Smooth sailing,
Lawrence  S/V Elle & I

7 & Counting!

Like I wrote before the 25th. of each month is a day I look forward to. Now we are just 7 months away from retirement. I'll be applying for SSI next month on the 9th! Yipee!
Fair winds & Smooth sailing,
Lawrence  S/V  Elle & I