Shelter in Place Project One. Big time Fail.

Summer is fast approaching and we're itching to get outside and see friends, go to restaurants and bars, and at least go to the lakefront but we're still under Shelter in Place orders in Chicago. So what have we been doing for the last couple months? Colette is working from home and Kevin is working on our home. All those little things are getting done and some bigger ones too.

After years of looking at a pretty bland bathroom we decided to spruce it up a bit. We had such a small area to paint we grabbed a sample in a lovely shade of blue and Kevin began taping around the teak to give us a pop of color in the Master Stateroom Head. So, how'd it go? Take a look at the video below to see.

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Welcome TV viewers! Yes, it's cold today.

Thanks for making the trip over to the blog today after watching the story on TV or online. If you take a look around the blog there are lots of answers to some of the questions I'm sure a lot of you have. We wrote a post about all the costs and I'm sure many of you will start there. Here is the video link in case you missed it. Knowing how cold it is outside this morning you may also want to know how we are doing. Yesterday when Marcus and cameraman Carlos came out it was 63 degrees inside the boat. Well with the wind we had last night and the brutally cold temperatures it's a bit cooler inside now, about 54. We have an alarm set if the temperature in the engine room goes below 40, which it did at 5AM. We took one of the space heaters out of the living area and moved it down to the engine room to keep things comfortable down there. Inside the engine room you obviously have the engines, which don't use antifreeze like a car, and can be damaged by...

You Live On a Boat? You Must Be RICH! Nope. Here is how to live aboard for cheap.

We've written before about how many people ask us private things just because we live on a boat. Since our lifestyle is a bit different than most people there seems to be an idea that we want everyone knowing about our financial lives and personal habits. Here are some questions we get: How much does it cost? What do you do in the winter? How do you heat/cool the boat? Do you ever leave the marina? Why are you doing this? Do you miss your house? How do you shower? How do you poop? Those last two come up a lot more often than you'd think. Let's face it, most of us are a bit crude. Kevin has spent a lot of time with "proper" people, businesspersons, met many CEOs of large global companies or other folks you might think are high class. Most of them turn into 14 year olds after a few cocktails. That's when the real questions come out. A lot of people are just curious, and their curiosity can overwhelm their sense of society, privacy, and poli...

What have you done!? We made it one year!

I came across this similar blog called Luv'n the Regal Life which originally was written about a couple's adventures on their weekender Regal 3760 boat. The blog is now about their life aboard a Carver a bit larger and quite a bit newer than ours. They have just crossed the two year mark of life aboard and as we are at the one year mark we thought it was interesting that this couple who we don't know is experiencing many of the same things we are at nearly the same times. They got a one year jump on us, but many of the experiences, frustrations, projects, and joys are the same as we have. I find these folks interesting because judging only by a couple photos on the blog they seem to be about the same age as us (Kevin just crested the hill and Colette is a ways behind him). You can find thousands of live aboards with silver (or no) hair but trying to find ones under the age of 50 isn't as easy. Sure we are around, but it's not like we always run ...

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