the electrician is a keeper

AC side is going to be done hopefully by Monday. Pete the electrician is doing a superb job... I am impressed and like what I see. But I knew this about him the very first time we met. New wiring through out the boat for the AC circuitry and also we got a new AC-Panel. I built a box for the AC panel but we are not going to use it because Pete had something else in his mind. I think the box can be used for a medicine cabinet for the guest bathroom... Also we have removed the hatches completely and all the rain gutters, cleaned them and primed all of them with this special primer ($20/each, 6 was used and I need one more can from the ship store) so they will be ready to be painted on Monday. Got the new inner lining for the one window which had to be removed because the termite people broke it. I would like to rebuild all the windows... which I am doing anyway but some I am just painting around because we have to get moving. Fixing the framing (around all the removed trimming, and now exposed outer skin) with epoxy... plugging holes with mahogany plugs and every screw hole need to be addressed because of water leakage or just plain rot. Built a battery box and a platform under it so I could still get to a bulkhead valve and the floor boards remain removable. I wanted to get inside of the engine room but it just did not happen. Starting Monday that is where I'll be, reconnecting, addressing, rewiring, removing, replacing and still running the project. Keeping Ephrain busy is a real challenge... he has learned a lot but can not leave him alone for long because he will do things on his own (which I encourage, since we are doing the sama thing all over all through out the boat) a sometimes they don't work. He will get bored and that is when things have to be revisited after my inspection. He does not get it that I only want to do it once if I can help it. Anyway we are chugging along. The project overwhelmes me and Darlene's disloyalty bothers me. I want to change that because I do not want to give her the power to affect me this way... she really knows how to take the wind out of my sails... also she knows how to put them back too. It only the balancing part which I have to figure out. She is very annoyed why we are not done with everything yet and why we are not somewhere out by the islands. I can understand this. I look at the water in the marina and just want to be skippering the BAGARRE again and want to go places. Next week will be very busy but every week is. Darlene is coming back from her vacation next Sunday. Also I will not work on Saturdays and Sundays... I need my time away from the BAGARRE. I do lot of the matterial gathering anyway on the weekend.