Melonseed

I am in love ... it has happened ... it all started last Friday:

I bounced out of bed bright and early, cleaned up, put my leg on and then sat down and wondered were Swede was.  I had expected him to be here by now!  He showed up at 11, four hours later ...  But we were still down two people, my old college time friends Bruce and Joanne.  I almost never get to see them as they live in the northwestern most tip or Washington State, hard to get to from here when you cars have sucked for so very long.  They arrived at noon.

What should have been a great time rapidly went right down the toilet.  Anything and everything went wrong, impeding us from reaching our destination.  I have become good the past few years at trying to defuse tension and we continued on and just ignored the roadblocks and everyone began laughing it was so weird!

At long last we arrived at the Seattle Boat Show.  I remember going to one back in about 1980.  A huge dome covered football field completly covered in HUGE sailboats!  I remember Dutchman and I were building a 32 foot displacement hulled cruiser at the time.  Dutchman was interviewing all of the radar and sonar dealers, I was checking out head technology and bumper options.  That boat sank in 1981 right after being launched ... sigh, five years work on the floor of Puget Sound because someone had put a copper penny in a fuse box.  That coin burned an entire marina down and sank some 25 boats, ours was the smallest!

But I digress from my new found love!

So I managed to hobble the entire show and was the end of the displays at the southern most end of the building, there sat a woman with her foot in a walking cast, seated on a kneeling scooter - I felt for her, too many years on one of those things and I fear for the rest of my life.  :(  We talked about her foot mash up, she fell into the engine compartment of her boat and broke it.  And then I saw her ...

A Melonseed.  Seventeen feet of well thought out fiberglass, blue gel coat, mahogany trimmed twin rowing/sailboat!  I was instantly a sickened calf gazing upon the most beautiful sight ever!  And the people at the show responsible for her - well, they knew NOTHING!  Let me get this straight, you in the possession of the most beautiful boat at the show and the only thing you have is the ability to do is play dumb games on your cell phones (and you are over 40!  REALLY?????) !

I gently ran my hands over her smooth lines.  I caressed her sailing rigging.  I so easily saw myself sailing a large lake or even Puget Sound on calm days.  Times of quiet and peace.

Yes, my new love brings me peace!  :) 
Okay, okay, in my dreams! :)
Now I will be forced to whittle myself a peg leg .... maybe get a parrot too!
Sorry I have to leave now, my love calls me back to dreamland!