Chopper Lands on The Snapper

The first chopper to land on the deck of the Snapper in over a year , and the first when we have all papers in order since I have been on the boat.

Well folks, today I witnessed for the first time a chopper landing on the deck of the Snapper.

Will this mean the end of small boat transfers during crew change?? I do not know, but it was nice to see one land here. It was only on deck for a few min. five maybe... But it does prove we can have one land, and that is good news for all.

And Farwell, such a short visit.

Return to the Snapper

I have returned to the boat and it feels different. The boat is almost silent, no joking or teasing among the crew, and without TAP no whistling to be heard at all. Been back five days now and even if no one will speak openly of the loss to the crew, it can be felt in the way we all go about our jobs. Moral is low and the seas are high.

Even with the sun out today the waves are between 7 and 11 footers. It is enough to rock the boot, and if last night was an example toss me out of bed.

So I stay here in the GOM until May 26th when I get to go home for a week before going to school for a week.

Been watching the news about the flu in Mexico and hoping it does not make its way to the states, or if it does it stays clear of me..


check this blog for what is going on at the ranch well I am gone......http://ourtexasranchito.blogspot.com/

Furniture for the home

Well for the past week or so we have been looking around for items for the house. My bedroom is almost done, I even painted it and put up curtains. Only one or two items and it will be done, problem is I still do not know what the last item or two will be. I did not know what color to paint the room until five minutes before I picked it out and was not sure it was what I wanted until the room was done. Curtains, were first planed to be multi color, but in the end white is what was hung.

The newest addition to the house is a sofa that PIA seems to like..

We also made changes to the cabinet handles to liven up the place, what y'all think???

Moving into a house again

After living in an RV it is a lot of work to move back into a house. We have been shopping each morning for furniture and picking it up in the afternoon, setting it up at night. Did get lucky because the city of Canten has a big market every first Monday of the month and bargains can be found. So far my bedroom has cost me a total of $975 for everything, that is a bed, box spring, mattress, lamp, night stand, dresser, chair, and bookcase. Still looking for a few items but not sure what.. Spent $300 so far on living room furniture, not finding what we want with this and I only pay half of the common stuff.

So that is what I have been doing for the last few days and more the likly will be doing for the rest of my break. Will try to update the blog each day as things change..

First day

First day moving into the new place. It is a double wide mobile on 10ac of land. Lets go back one day to the 2ed when we closed, less then five hours before closing we got a call from the bank we closed at telling us the closing price we had to have was 2,400.00 more then first told. Now we have to drive 2 hours to our bank to get the money and back to close. That about killed anything else we might wanted to do. Once at the bank we asked if we would get the keys for the house so we could move into it the next day, ( we have to leave the park ) told that as soon as we sign we will get the keys. HAH!!!! After all signing is done and the bank has our money, we are told the sellers agent is not answering her phone so we can not get any keys yet. However we are told that the keys will be gotten to us by morning. Later that night we are told the sellers agent has left the keys in the shed inside a blue pie tin.

We arrive at the farm at 9:30am on the 3ed and look for the keys... No key can be found anywhere. Call our agent, call the sellers agent, the called the sellers agents boss ( the broker ) he tells us we have NOT closed and have no right to any keys... We are now seeing red... Our agent calls us back and we tell her what the broker said, she calls him. He then calls us back and tells us we can go and pick up the keys. This means we have to drop the trailer, unhook, and drive to another city to get the keys we had been told would be given to us the day before. It is now noon!!!!!

We drop the trailer, get the truck stuck for about 45 min before we could get on the road.. Now get this ....... when we arrive at the office of the sellers agent she is not in, so some other person has the keys and we have to show our drivers LIC before the B^&^^ will let us have OUR key. Only one key?????

Had a late lunch and went shopping for beds. Here we got lucky found both our beds and everything we needed. Went home put the beds together and called it a day..

New Home

Just moved into a new place April 3ed, 2009.. Been a strange move to say the least. First we were told that the place had no restrictions, and that the tital was clean and clear. So we made an offer and it was accepted, so far so good. At first the closeing date was set for March 31st and we agreed. Then the fun starts.

After the home inspecton was done and the seller moved out, we were asked if we could a week early. We thought about it and said sure no problem. It would give us an extra week to get things done before I go back to the boat. So we check out of the RV park we are staying at and pack up to go drive five hours North to stay at a Park closer to the city we will close in. The day we are leaving the share pins lifting the feet on the RV snap and have to be replaced before we can hook up and go. Now we have to run around to find replacement pins to fix the problem. After 3 hours and several trips into town we are hooked up and ready to go.. Opps, phone call from the realter... we can not close... the sellers never filed papers in court after the farther died, so the tital is not clear after all. Then we get a fax telling us that hay, you do have some restrictions on the property. After talking about everything and being told we can still close on the 31st we decide to close on the 31st. It is now around 2 pm so we decide to drive up the next day.

At first we only scheduled a few days at a state park hoping all would go well and we would close on the 31st... No such luck, got called Friday the 27th and found out the papers had not yet been filed, so it would be the 31st before and could be filed at this point. Now we will have to extent our stay at the park again, we can only stay until the 3ed because it is already filled past that date. Realtors told us that if the papers are filed on the 31st we "might be able to close on the 2ed of April.

Good news papers got filed on the 31st and we close on the 2ed.