Maxi 95 and Our Adventures
Hilary doesn’t yet visit me in my dreams but she will. When time enough passes that she and I should have seen each other by now, she will appear to fulfill that timetable. I wonder if she’ll speak or just be present, communicating by her heat next to my face.
At 7:42 pm, Atlanta time, Jennifer sent a text: ‘‘30 breaths per minute, hard, normal is 12-15.’’ At 7:54pm, ‘‘37 bpm.’’
Decatur, GA, 19-FEB-2019 – At times I’ve written that the true subject of this blog is Hilary. I received this email from Dyna Kohler, the Doyenne of the Atlanta Orthographic Spelling Bee. Dyna saw a picture of our dinghy, the Hilary Hoffmann stored on Caro Babbo’s foredeck. I am really dumbfounded now to learn Hilary’s … Continue reading “Hilary, Spelling and the Camino; GPS, the Bahamas, and when will we ever get home to Caro Babbo.”
Decatur, GA USA, 6-NOV-2017 – Two months. I’ve never gone two months without posting. I write enough about Hilary that this blog might be called Caro Babbo and Hilary, and so this post will primarily be about Hilary. When I started writing this blog, Hilary was far along in her Alzheimer’s dementia, but she retained … Continue reading “Hilary in Atlanta”
25-MAY-2017, Shearwater, BC – It has been busy, and when it is not we haven’t had internet access. There has been weather… terrible forecasts, but not too terribly bad on the ‘‘inside’’ where we sail. Though on Tuesday we came into Shearwater with a host of there boats to wait out the weather. Needless to … Continue reading “Shearwater, weather and new Hilary shows her face”
17-MAY-2017, Johnstone Strait – Yesterday morning we had two conflicting weather reports. Environment Canada said wind on the nose up Straits of Georgia and in to Johnstone Strait. Our GRIB files said four knots the entire day. The Strait outside Campbell river was flat and calm. As we made our decision to leave all 100 … Continue reading “Small Inlet, Johnstone Strait, Hilary, Two Whales Feeding and things that work”
My apologies for not posting in sometime. It has all been heads down while we raced to get away. We finally left Port Townsend this past Friday about 2pm. The Port Townsend house is rented, the lower shrouds are installed, the rig tuned and new burners installed.
Hilary is the center of attention no matter where we go, but the woman Jennifer and I live with isn’t the woman I met 11 years ago. Yet, like that woman, this woman is buoyant, full of life. People who meet Hilary once, remember her, call to her and become concerned about her well-being. Is it … Continue reading “Hilary”
Today is not an atypical day. We’re sailing at 3 knots, the sky is overcast with rain predicted. Hilary, after eating breakfast, told me that the beauty that surrounds us in the Malaspina Strait was so difficult to express that it hurt in her chest. Jennifer, down below planning our passage through the upcoming rapids, … Continue reading “Sailing with Hilary”
We are making progress on our preparations for the Alaska trip. Executing these preparations with Hilary in tow has been at times more successful for me than at others. First, we have recently enrolled her in Full Life Adult Day Care. We call it her Friendship Group, and we take her Monday, Wednesday and Friday … Continue reading “Preparing with Hilary”
