The skeeter...day 2

Jay is enjoying working on the boat so much.  He was out in the garage yesterday in the 96 degree heat covered in fiberglass.  I think he would work on it 24 hours a day if I was not here :-)  He made amazing progress on his journey to put the boat in the water.  Here are some pictures.

A desk for his sweetie..me!!!!

Jay is a wonderful man.  He does things everyday to make me happy.  When he saw how happy I am when I am painting, or sewing, or crafting...he knew his life would be happier if I stayed that happy.  Then when I saw an amazing craft desk and wished out loud that I had one...he had a mission.

The mission has started with a cheap and pretty ugly desk ($15 at the thrift store) , a couple of inexpensive book shelves ($20 each), and bi-fold doors ($7.00 in the Lowes damage door area).  I will follow his journey to give me the craft table of my dreams.

Here is the beginning :-)

The boat...day one after pressure washing

Here is the beginning of the journey.  The boat has been pressure washed.  It will now be moved to the garage for the work to begin.

In the beginning...there was a boat

Well...this is a story of a man and the sea.  No not that one...this one is a different story.  This is a story of the love of my life, Jay.  And his love of the sea.  Jay has spent most of his life on a ship.  A couple of years ago he had a stroke and has been unable to continue working on the wide ocean.

Now we rent a home in a lovely town in Virginia among fabulous people who support us daily.  We live on the water and love it.  But the water calls him.

To say we don't have much money is an understatement...but we have love and we both are very crafty.

We buy inexpensive flea market (or pickup road side trash) and refurbish it for our home.

Jay's latest adventure is a boat.  A flea market boat you ask? Not quite.  A $50 boat.  Yep, it is what you expect. But he is dedicated to his vision of fishing and crabbing.  The boat is a 1973 skeeter bass boat.

I am documenting this journey.