This is my personal blog. I have a few other blogs and web sites, but I frequently find myself wanting to write about something that just doesn’t quite fit anywhere else. So….. this blog is for everything that just doesn’t quite fit anywhere else. Like me. That’s why I live in a swamp.
A little about me: I develop web sites for a living. My husband sells boats. We also buy boats: We have a Com-Pac Sun Cat, a Boston Whaler, a couple of Hobie Adventure Islands, several kayaks, an ancient aluminum boat, an inflatable dinghy, and a jet ski. We like to sail, fish, go cruising around the harbor, and generally mess about in boats.
We have a dog, Libby. She’s part German Shepherd, part junkyard dog. She’s six months old today, and already over 60 pounds. The vet says there might be a little Mastiff in there. We recently lost our old dog, Tango, to old age, and our middle-aged dog, Misty, to aggressiveness.
We live on several acres east of Punta Gorda. We do in fact live in a swamp — our property is on the inside of a bend of Shell Creek, with 100 yards of swamp between the creek and dry ground, on 3 sides. So we’re surrounded by what is now often called “wetlands.” But really, it’s swampland, and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. We have a spring-fed pond in our front yard. I just recently used the “area calculation” function on my new handheld Garmin GPS/chartplotter to determine that the pond is just about one-third of an acre in size. The pond is popular with our friends and neighbors. Sometimes, on a week-end or holiday, while we’re getting a boat ready to go out, friends come over to swim in the pond. It seems that everyone has to go somewhere else. Even though we live in a veritable paradise, we leave our paradise even while our friends come over to partake of our paradise. It’s all good, though.
I use a Mac and have an iPhone. In fact, our entire household is pretty Mac-centric: Two Mac Book Pros, a Mac Pro, two iPhones, an Airport Extreme Base Station. I do run Windows on my Mac — I would never use Windows voluntarily; I only use it because the nature of my work requires it. I have Windox XP, Windows Vista, and the RC version of Windows 7 installed on my Mac using virtualization technology.