Close to the Equator...

Thursday, January 15. Cloudy and warm 26 C. 

We are now three days behind West Coast Time, we cross the Equator tomorrow.

A lazy morning, starting with a light breakfast in the Neptune of berries and yogurt in an attempt to get some food that is not full of sugar or salt. They seem to think that the more salt and the more sugar there is the better it tastes! [Which it does, but is not good for my health, Fellette seems to be able to eat anything.]

The expected rather boring routine of live on the ship seems to be settling in now that the concerning couple of weeks regarding Fellette's health is slowly fading. I/we had fully expected this  months ago when we booked this cruise. We even anticipated this would be our last cruise as the involvement in picking out our clothes and packing up is a very involved process, draining actually, especially during the Christmas Season. Our advancing years has a lot do do with it as well. We are no Spring Chickens for sure and we have certainly had our share of fun and adventure over the years, including cruising. There is no punch line to this paragraph and I do not want to sound jaded or mournful about being aboard, we would rather be aboard than anywhere else!

We took in a talk by an on-board guest speaker this afternoon. This afternoon's talk was on the true story of the Mutiny on The Bounty and the Captain Bligh and the Mutinous Fletcher Christian.

We had an employee working at our Company for several years whose maiden name was Bligh. She was indeed a descendant of Captain Bligh. Son Craig ended up buying the Bligh House, as we called it, when Mr. Bligh passed away. Craig lived next door the Mr Bligh for several years. It was a tiny old house on two acres right next to Craig's three acres. We, as a family, did a complete reno of the house, down to studs. Daughter Jeanette took it on as a personal job and challenge that took us all several hard months of work, with Jeanette the driver and main worker.

One of Jeanette's daughters  moved into the house when the reno was finished a few years ago and now runs a Flower Farm from the property, right next door to her Uncle Craig. Nice!

We no longer call it Bligh House, but: The Flower Farm, at the insistence of others!

A Better Day Today.

Day by day, getting better, a bit of exercise and bit of reading and relaxing and lots of good sleep.

Greenhouse number 4 went up this summer at The Flower Farm. There we see Jeanette on the scaffolding and Fellette I believe  down below, assisting Jeanette.