Hurting

I’m paying for it. Yesterday my legs were protesting a little from our 7km walk. Today my calves are howling their protest at me. They’ll give up complaining long before I give up bearing them. It has meant a couple of days rest though which has coincided with a deterioration in the weather. Good timing. Made a good excuse to get some more Skyping in.

A piece of news I thought I’d mentioned but seemingly haven’t is that we’ve accepted an offer on Dignity from the couple we met aboard not long ago. The deal came in at a little less than we’d hoped. If the buyer’s have gone a little higher than they’d hoped then we found the sweet spot. All in all we’re content. The repairs are almost complete as is the importation process. If the deal completes and the new owners have an intention to blog their own experiences aboard Dignity (or whatever they will call her) I will certainly follow them and will publish their link here.

We’ve long since reconciled ourselves to moving on so while there will be some sadness saying our final goodbyes to Dignity I hope it won’t be too bad.

On another note we have been closely following Hurricane Sandy in the US. Our son, Ben, lives in Jersey city and works in Manhattan. We also still own a property in New Jersey.

Ben and his partner Amy are both ok. They lost power along with many in the state. The area around where he works has suffered a lot. We were also fortunate with our property. Three trees had fallen across the road missing the property but taking down the cable line which in turn damaged the front of the house. We had some flooding in the basement but the power remained on and the sump pump cleared it out. Our hearts obviously go out to those who’ve lost family and friends and those who’ve lost their properties.