I am lucky enough to be in the most beautiful spot on earth, as far as I am concerned, for many days during April-October. I am grateful and I appreciate every moment.
Lately, things have been a little on the challenging side…
We have had a black cloud lurking overhead for a while now, bad karma, the wrong mo-jo, under a spell, jinxed, whatever you want to call it Lady Luck has vanished from the horizon and her evil twin, Calamity Jane has taken her place
We have had so many things break in the past few months HH has gone from tears to a kind of hysterical laughter…it’s a little off putting...
Just to name a few, we have had to replace the entire A/C system, the garage door cables snapped, the washer & dryer died and had to be replaced , the microwave oven wouldn’t turn on, an engine blew on the boat, my car developed this charming habit of not starting. This is in the past 3 months mind you. 3. months. Earlier this year we had to replace the ice maker, buy a new refrigerator and oh yeah, LIGHTNING STRUCK our sprinkler system and blew it up! Blew up the pipes underground. Come on, now that is bad luck!
I have remained calm though, you haven’t noticed any unusual strain in my words or photos right? That might be slightly different today. I am hanging by the proverbial thread. We are supposed to be on vacation, relaxing, celebrating our anniversary. My car won’t start. Our boat is gone. We have each other. Romantic? Not so much…
Yesterday I told HH that our luck had changed! I could just feel it! Things are working out just perfectly!! But, alas, Calamity Jane wasn’t quite through…the service man called and said my car repair would be anywhere from $100-$5000. What? Can you narrow that down? The boat mechanic said whoops, no, we won’t be bringing your boat back tomorrow, it will be another 2 weeks. What? They’ve already had it for 3!
He emailed a picture. Have you EVER gotten a photo from your mechanic? I thought not.
It is a photo of our boat in the shop, one of the motors is all over the work bench. Not good. Or cheap. Like you could buy a new car not cheap.
It was actually THE day, our anniversary. I decided not to tempt fate and told HH, let’s just stay here all day and enjoy. Not that we had any choice, the only vehicle we had was a one man sail boat and there was no wind.
The pizza stuck to the pizza stone on the grill and looked like a dog’s breakfast when HH got it off, so we had a little champagne and antipasti
I got some martini glasses ready for HH, he might need a stronger libation
It’s good to be prepared for anything
just in case
you forget to stop and smell the roses
and appreciate the beauty all around you…
and besides we have a boat, it’s full of wine
and we can always look at the neighbor’s yacht
and nosh on some simple things
and be grateful…
We’ll be heading home to Birmingham on Sunday
If my car will start
so there’s nothing to worry about~
Hurricane season won’t be in full force around here for several weeks yet! Photo source
Thanks so much for your visit, there is never a bad day at the beach!
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If luck will have it, I will be joining