Written by Salty.
-Wake up Salty…wake up!
It’s Mommy. She wants me to get up because we are going at the airport.
-Put on your vest, and your summer coat Salty.
-But Mommy, it’s cold outside, it’s fall.
-No honey, where we are going, this will be the warmest clothes you’ll need.
-So you are removing the boat name, huh Sam? asks Mike in the boat yard.
-Yep! Have to. Once it is registered, you need to have it written on the hull, replies Sam hands full of goo gone.
He would have million things to do more important, but legally, it needs to happen: Sam has to change the decal on the boat. And quite honestly, changing the boat name when it’s in the water is pretty hard.
2 weeks before Sam leaves to go refitting the boat, he is talking with his best friend Vincent:
-You’re sure you want to spend part of your parental leave to come at the boat yard and work with me? I mean, it will be stinky, it will be crazy hot, I don’t have a fridge because it only works when the boat is in the water, the shower on the boat yard smells rotten eggs. Worst, I can only offer you American beer at the end of the day.
No more cds in the house (we sold them all!), we’re listening to the radio in the car that morning. It’s commute time from home to the daycare:
-Who sings that song Mommy? asks Salty.
-Her name is Pink, pumpkin.
I see her coming… She will say she loves the song because her name is Pink.
Routine visit at the dentist before Sam leaves to go work on the boat for 2 months. He needs to prepare it before the rest of us arrives for good. It’s coming very fast.
-Man…these gums doesn’t look good, the dentist says to Sam.
-That bad?
For the last time before we leave, we are with Sophie, our doctor guru. She is teaching us how to make stitches. Honestly : I hope if won’t need some. But if we need some, and cannot reach medical assistance, better safe than sorry.
We bought a pork leg to practice.
-So here, you turn the thread around the plyers and you pull to make the knot.
Written by Matey.
We all sit for dinner. We eat cereals. That’s because Daddy isn’t there. Otherwise we would eat tofu or vegies. It’s good cereals, we only eat that with Mommy. The phone ring. IT’S DADDY! Mommy hangs off. Shee seems happy:
-What do you mean by ” They changed their mind!” Sam?
-Why, exactly that. They changed their mind.
My mother adds (after all, we crash at her place since we sold the house) :
-Yes, they changed their mind. But does it mean they accept your offer?
Over the years, Sam started really enjoying wood working. Putting hours to bring back to life a complete collection of old planes that he used afterward, collecting special tools, saws, and buying some exotic wood.
Sam looks at his amazing band saw being loaded inside the pickup of its new owner.
Written by Salty.
-Mommy, are we gonna get the new boat?
-No sweatheart. The boat was too broken. We don’t have enough money to fix it.
