{"id":3878,"date":"2016-01-03T20:59:55","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T20:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=3878"},"modified":"2016-01-05T13:10:14","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T13:10:14","slug":"ringing-in-the-new-remembering-the-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=3878","title":{"rendered":"Ringing in the New….Remembering the Old"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the end of our first week onboard, and I am beginning to get used to boat life once again.\u00a0 It was a HOT New Year\u2019s in Vero Beach, which is a very odd experience for us!\u00a0 We left our family in Baltimore on the very day that cold weather hit the northeast, where our part of Connecticut had its first snow. \u00a0This is the first year that I won’t see any snow, unless there is still some around when I return in May\u2014unlikely!<\/p>\n

Some hot scenes from Vero Beach…<\/p>\n

New Year’s Eve lunch at Cobalt<\/a>, the restaurant in the Kimpton Hotel that looks out at the Atlantic–quite a luxurious spot for a New Year’s Eve lunch. \u00a0I had no interest in going out to dinner because that would entail a late night dinghy ride back to the boat in a dark harbor. \u00a0It gives me the shivers to think about drunken dinghy drivers in an unfamiliar harbor. \u00a0I chose lunch!<\/p>\n

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Traditional holiday decorations look rather out of place down here to me.<\/p>\n

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But there are plenty of lovely sights to see, like resurrection ferns which are flourishing right now since there has been plenty of rain.<\/p>\n

\"1-2-16<\/a>\u00a0Along one of the streets we walk \u00a0we saw these large shrubs in bloom. \u00a0What are they?<\/p>\n

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\u00a0I\u2019ve spent some time arranging our things, especially Christmas gifts from our kids that I simply could not leave behind, in order to make our new Pandora<\/i> look homey.<\/p>\n

After 20 years of celebrating New Year’s Eve with our good friends Kari and Gerhard our current celebrations have not been nearly as fun and interesting. \u00a0Change is inevitable, and I’m not saying we didn’t have a very nice evening this year….I just couldn’t help also feeling such a fondness for our past New Year’s gatherings with dear friends.<\/p>\n

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During our second day here we visited a nursery and farm stand in Ft. Pierce called Nelson Family Farms<\/a> where I bought some herbs and a pink geranium that Bob planted together in a window box. Nelsons is now my new favorite plant nursery in this area. \u00a0There were so many choices of plants, and the fruit and veggie offerings on display were really tempting–I wanted to buy way more than we could store in Pandora’s galley. \u00a0One thing I found really tempting was chick peas still in their seed pods. \u00a0I’ve never seen that before!<\/p>\n

I bought a phalenopsis– a hybrid color break white\/magenta, and a rosemary plant in its own pot since it needs drier conditions than the other herbs (parsley, chives and thyme) that I wanted together in the window box.\u00a0 Along with these I also have some paper whites from home that were a gift from my friend Tina.\u00a0 So we have quite a bit of garden going for a boat!\u00a0 It makes me happy, and most of all I am always amazed at how quickly things grow in warm, maritime conditions–and how sturdy they get after a week or so in strong breezes.\u00a0 It will only take a few weeks before I will be able to harvest as many herbs as we need everyday.\u00a0 At home it would take from early May ’til mid-July before I could do that.<\/p>\n

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To bring a little holiday cheer onboard since it was not yet New Year’s, Bob picked some greenery with red berries from an empty lot, along with some long stemmed white begonias. \u00a0Rather festive–though certainly not in the vein of traditional ‘northern’ Christmas decorating. \u00a0We tried hard to come with something that would NOT \u00a0look as silly as a red bow and bells on a palm tree!<\/p>\n

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To put a fine point on the kind of slow internet we cruisers experience, I’d like to explain that every photo I included in this post took from 20 – 30 minutes to upload. \u00a0Then some of them just failed entirely and had to be redone. \u00a0One of them–the window box planter– has uploaded sideways, and I’m far too exhausted to fix it at this point. \u00a0I started this post at 8 am, took a 1 1\/2 hour break to go out to lunch, and it is now somewhat after 4 pm. \u00a0Really, I wonder why I bother! \u00a0It’s got to be my maniacal stubbornness.<\/p>\n

For this last photo, when I truly thought I would lose my cool waiting, I decided to untangle a mess of size 20, 6-cord cordonet that I’d like to use for a project. \u00a0Because of the high twist it had tangled into quite a mess. \u00a0How’s that for manical?? \u00a0While highly frustrating with the internet I chose to use my downtime doing another chore that was equally highly frustrating…. For most of the time I was detangling it looked like the detangling event would win over the uploading-photo event. \u00a0At the last moment the photo won, and thank heaven, because I might have cried.<\/p>\n

I have more news but no more patience. \u00a0So until I recuperate enough for another frustrating, slow internet moment I’ll stop here.<\/p>\n

P.S. I fixed the window box photo. \u00a0Whew!<\/p>\n

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