Lay Days in Puerto Escondido

8-18-13 – Broadview Heights, OH

B listening to some folk music at Hale Farm

I guess it’s time to get back on the horse with this blog thing.  So what’s been going on in the world of PK.  No longer boat owners, I bought a car to go to work, which means that, yes, I have a new job.  Actually, a pretty good job and one that I had hoped to be offered for quite some time now…ever since being anchored out in La Cruz, where you would not have known it, because I didn’t announce it because no one really knew I was looking for a job, I spent most of a day trying to write my resume at a coffee shop while my friends played on the beach, went surfing and drank beers.  Elizabeth has a good job as well, conveniently about 7 minutes from the house.  We are living with my mom, which some people may be embarrassed about, but since I figure it is highly economical, I’m cheap (meaning frugal) it’s by choice and only short term, I’m happy to tell people about it.  A house of our own may be in our near future and we have actually made an offer on one.  Actually, we already made an offer on a different one that ended up having some issues so we bailed out of the deal.  So the housing situation is looking up for us.  And why would we care about getting a house so quickly one may ask since we have this sweet deal of a place to live right now?

I feel like a little kid - My first day of work - with, new to me, car

On a Saturday walk into town for a bagel

The answer to that goes way back 19 weeks to Puerto Escondido, the decision to haul Autumn Wind and paint the bottom and some high winds causing us additional lay days in the yard before launching.  An avid follower may recall that we spent a night at the Trapui Hotel while the boat was on the hard.  Apparently, something happened there and Elizabeth has found herself pregnant.   I learned about this as I pulled into Turtle Bay, you might remember, after being presumably lost at sea for three days since the SPOT quit working.  It was a special moment that I will never forget.  I’m sure Elizabeth will not forget it either as she was relieved to find out she wouldn’t be a widowed single mother, three days after finding out she was pregnant.  So if we have made some weird decisions or have acted oddly in some way, that may explain it.  I apologize for not revealing this exciting information sooner, but we figure it would be better that E revealed the secret to her employer first before releasing it into the general population; silly internet and Facebook and all.

19 weeks into it

I’m starting to remember how the weeks go by so quickly, how you don’t need 12 cold beers at the ready every evening, and also how you can get wrapped up in the massively consumer driven world of the USA.  It’s easy to do.  If there was a plan, which if you know me of course there was, it is going as close to plan as could be expected. 

It seems that the blog title “The Adventures of PK” will remain an apt title in lieu of this news, I just need to change the description on the side, from a sailing trip down the West coast to a trip into the adventures of parenthood.

 

 

 

 

Can you guess?  (look to the top left for a clue!)