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At sea 608 nights
Last night at sea 01/27/2026
Next night at sea 09/04/2026
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Hi I am Dolores. My husband and I started cruising in 2008. Since our first cruise, we have been in love with the adventure out at sea. This remains true today. Each cruise is a unique experience from the weather to the port. In between cruises we do home construction and lots of other traveling. You never know what you will discover and learn by following my life’s journey.
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Living the Dream Year 6 Day 115 – Clifty Hill 3 – Framing Day 21, Ridge, Rafters, Cleaning & Winching
Year 6, Day 115. “Living the Dream”. Sunday, 8/23/2026, Clifty Hill 3. Framing Day 21. Before any work was actually done. We ensured the ridge put up on Friday was plum and solid. Then the worksite was cleaned up. It was a real safety hazard walking around pieces of lumber just thrown all over the…
Living the Dream Year 6 Day 114 – Clifty Hill 3 – Off Day exchanging lumber
Year 6, Day 114. “Living the Dream”. Saturday, 8/22/2026, Clifty Hill 3. Off day or as close to an off day as we get. Headed to Lumber King to exchange some wood. Then relaxed on the deck sharing my drink with the bees. Todays videos: Off day no videos!! Daily Reflection: Here’s a link to…
Living the Dream Year 6 Day 113 – Clifty Hill 3 – Framing Day 20, Front Porch framing
Year 6, Day 113. “Living the Dream”. Friday, 8/21/2026, Clifty Hill 3. Framing Day 20. Boxing in the front porch took a lot of time. Then most of the front post ceiling joists were screwed in. Late afternoon, around 4pm the roof ridge was started. But it was so hot and sunny that work came…
Living the Dream Year 6 Day 112 – Clifty Hill 3 – Framing Day 19, Floor Joists and porch posts
Year 6, Day 112. “Living the Dream”. Thursday, 8/20/2026, Clifty Hill 3. Framing Day 19. Ceiling joists are in and front porch posts are up. The structure is really starting to take shape now. Todays videos: Daily Reflection: Here’s a link to today’s Amazon recommendation: https://amzn.to/4gfKUT5 YETI Rambler 20 oz Stainless Steel Vacuum Insulated Tumbler…
Living the Dream Year 6 Day 111 – Clifty Hill 3 – Framing Day 18, 2/3rds ceiling joist up
Year 6, Day 111. “Living the Dream”. Wednesday, 8/19/2026, Clifty Hill 3. Framing Day 18. First thing the walls were verified they were plum. Then lots of wall braces were added before the ceiling joists were added. About Two-thirds of the house has ceiling joists at the end of the day. The ceiling joists are…
Living the Dream Year 6 Day 110 – Clifty Hill 3 – Framing Day 17, Headers complete, Covid vaccines
Year 6, Day 110. “Living the Dream”. Tuesday, 8/18/2026, Clifty Hill 3. Framing Day 17. First thing this morning we got our covid vaccines. They are the 2025 ones and not the new 2026 that are being released soon. We will be on a cruise ship for a long time. Hopefully the vaccine will keep…
Living the Dream Year 6 Day 109 – Clifty Hill 3 – Framing Day 16, Roofing Material arrives, Easy ladder into home installed, More headers installed
Year 6, Day 109. “Living the Dream”. Monday, 8/17/2026, Clifty Hill 3. Framing Day 16. Roofing material arrived today. Trying to get this house weather tight. Need to protect the lumber. Walls are now all framed. Garage walls will be framed after we get the main house closed in. Working on headers. Today I climbed…
Living the Dream Year 6 Day 108 – Clifty Hill 3 – Off Day, Belated Happy Birthday Marley, ordered roofing materials
Year 6, Day 108. “Living the Dream”. Sunday, 8/16/2026, Clifty Hill 3. First I need to say Happy Belated 23rd Birthday to Marley Ranck the football. With all that is going on I forgot to include her in Friday’s post. Friday was her actual birthday. I am not that bad we did call and sing…
Living the Dream Year 6 Day 107 – Clifty Hill 3 – Framing day 15, Headers and picked up front door
Year 6, Day 107. “Living the Dream”. Saturday, 8/15/2026, Clifty Hill 3. Framing Day 15. The morning started out cool and foggy. Steve worked on headers until the sun just got way to hot to work anymore. Quitting time was 1pm. Three windows and a door now have headers. Work does continue even when we…
Living the Dream Year 6 Day 106 – Clifty Hill 3 – Framing day 14, Main walls are up
Year 6, Day 106. “Living the Dream”. Friday, 8/14/2026, Clifty Hill 3. Framing Day 14. All the main walls are up. There are some smaller walls that still need to go up. Tomorrow work will be putting up window and door headers. The day was super hot and we knocked off at 1pm. Way too…
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Do they have hair dryers on the ships?
Yes, there are hair dryers. They are not real strong, but I find that they work. We don’t bring one with us. We use the one provided.
red
Hi – Question for you what does red mean as a comment?
markets
Agent
Dear Dolores
I contact you on behalf of Amusement Logic, the company that designed and builded the adventure trial and the kraken tentacles of Pirates Cove Waterpark in MSC Seashore cruise ship. We found images from our work in this video, https://youtu.be/XcC9e66qxBU, and would like to ask you for permission to use some of the shots in it, of course, with proper attribution.
Please, let me know if that would be possible.
Thanks for your help and best regards
Sure!
Hey Dolores! It’s Cindy from star nails. You gave me your card while we were waiting to get our nails done. I was wondering if you’d like to walk at rocky hollow tomorrow. My number is 606875297. You can text if you would like. 😊
Hi Cindy – OH my Gosh, I would love to, but we will be in CocoCay Bahamas tomorrow. Your phone number has one digit missing. You can text me at 973-534-0547 or connect through fb messenger. My fb is https://www.facebook.com/DeeTremper?mibextid=ZbWKwL
I’m so jealous!! Enjoy your trip. It’s beautiful there. Let me know when you get back and we’ll walk. 6068752897