S/V Loomba-Loomba

Well, it's been about five months since I posted here.  Jim is slowly improving and has quite a bit more energy.  He is now on a six week immunotherapy regiment with other appointments in between. We have been able to take a few overnight excursions in Billy: Lake Wenatchee with high school/college friends: Fort Worden State Park in Port Townsend with Chrissy's brother  Tom and Claudette:   Clamming at Pacific Beach State Park: The inside remodeling projects are ALMOST done.  We actually had a Thanksgiving Family Gathering which we haven't done for about twelve years (when we went cruising). We are now the "old timers"! We are decorated for Christmas, gifts are wrapped, and cookies are made. This year we get to celebrate IN PERSON with the kids. All are vaccinated........ We cut down a Douglas Fir that was a volunteer in the back yard. We have watched it grow for several years. It's our "Charlie Brown" Tree:) Home Sweet Home Nice to be settled back i...

   .....with s/v Kanga and s/v Moshulu. So much fun. Lifted our spirits. Jim and Jeanne (Kanga) drove up from their home in Livermore, CA in their new (very impressive) car and Gerry (Moshulu) drove up in his newly renovated camper van from his awesome house near Mt. Rainier. All of us have sold our boats. They spent one night at our house on Bainbridge Island where we did a lot of reminiscing, story telling, and laughing. So much fun I never took any pictures 😐 We then went to Gerry's. He lives in  community with a shared runway. He has a beautiful airplane in a hanger on his property and can taxi right to the runway. Jim's immunotherapy treatments continue. It has been a year since his official diagnosis and he is slowly improving. There have been a few hiccups but overall the results continue to be positive. Treatments will now be six weeks apart so we are hoping to do a few longer trips in "Billy".   Here are some photos of Gerry's house:

A big THANK YOU to Rich, Lori, and Alon at La Paz Cruisers Supply and Yacht Brokerage. They went above and beyond to make it happen. We will miss Loomba-Loomba, the lifestyle, our friends, and the whole cruising community. Please come and visit us up here in the PNW! Jim continues to slowly improve and that is our main focus. Our house renovation is moving along as time allows. We hope to spend more time on our land yacht "Billy" between Jim's treatments.  Who knows.......we may eventually cross paths in your neck of the woods:)

 My brother, sister-in-law, Jim and I were able to build seven new raised beds  in our vegetable garden last week. This lumber was ordered and delivered from Edensaw in Port Townsend on June 19, 2020. Shortly after that Jim was in the hospital and then starting treatments.  It's been quite the journey ever since. The immunotherapy treatments have changed his cancer diagnosis from a death sentence to learning to live with it.  We are now moved into our house (which isn't totally dialed yet) so we have a lot of projects to keep us busy. I had my second covid vaccine on March 2nd and Jim has his on March 12th so in a few weeks we will feel like we can be a little bit social again! Our daughter and son-in-law are getting their first vaccines next week (they are both teachers) so we are excited that we can see more of them and the grandchildren in the near future. Our visits with them have been outside and COLD. We're sure missing all of our friends out there............ ...