Back to the "real" world

After being gone off and on for the past few months, my sailing season is finally over and I am starting to reintegrate back into normal society. Living on a ship for 4 weeks in isolation is definately not normal society.

This past weekend, my first weekend off in weeks, I spent running errands and doing things around the apartment. I managed to finish up some UFO's but cannot show them as ther are gifts. I did however knit these two sweaters Saturday night. They are ornaments from Last Minute Knitted Gifts and a cute way to use up bits of sock yarn. I plan on starting a miniature sweater sweat shop for all the bits of sock yarn in my stash.



Halloween is tomorrow, and to celebrate I am going to Pictou to do an emergency repair on a hydrographic survey boat. It seems the hydrographer is trick-or-treating for a new processing unit for the multibeam system as the old one is dead. I have never been to Pictou before and don't really know how to get there so it should be interesting.

Here we go again

(gratuitous baby photo)

Now that we got that out of the way...
We are back out to sea, trying things out again. They managed to fix the leak so my hopes of going home for thanksgiving and seeing little Anna again were dashed.

Here is a shot I took while we were coming in the harbour the other day.

And here is the tug that escorted us in, just in case we had any problems. I was hoping they would send Theodore but I guess he had a prior engagement.

I started a this wrap last week. It is the Romantic Moments wrap by Evelynne A. Clark in some laceweight merino. It is my first try at something like this and it is already full of mistakes, but I am cutting myself some slack considering the conditions under which I have been working on it. The colour is not showing well but it is actually a sage green.

Enjoy your turkey time everyone!

Back so soon?

Well, my three week sea trip was cut down to about 3 days and I returned Monday afternoon. Why, you ask?

The ship was slowly sinking... Yes, we were taking on water around one of the eingine shafts. Thankfully, the engineers aboard are amazing and slowled the water enough for us to get safely back to Halifax. Ideally, the ship should be put in dry dock to be repaired but since the dry docks are full, they are attempting to do it underwater. So I am on standby and things at work are quite hectic!