Gould 0738 wrote:
She's smart enough to know that she doesn't want to present, "It's me or the
boat." There are some things, like a dog, that a guy could live without.....

Eisboch wrote:
Oh, man. :-) Mrs.E actually suggested that once in a hypothetical way.
During one of our "conversations" she asked how I would like it if she
said that I had to choose between her and the boat, and I answered,
"Well, I suppose there is some things I can live without". She doesn't
always appreciate my humor and I damn near caught a horseshoe off the
back of my head.


Horses... huh, it's a good thing she's married to you and not me. But
then, I have never been able to afford more than one expensive hobby at
a time.

My situation is somewhat different... I was well on my way to being a
confirmed old batchelor when I met the girl I married. She was (and
still is) purusing a very demanding career; actually when we met she was
finishing up the tremendous amount of schooling & interning entailed in
her career path... OTOH she had a dog (I love dogs), a sailboat (I love
sailing), and had her priorities right enough that she *made* the time
for them. After a year or so of increasingly realizing that I had never
met a woman like her, we married.

She would no more ask me to give up my boat than I would ask her to give
up hers!

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
It funny, but my family never once, even in theory, have begrudged me
the boats I've owned over the years.

Then again, it get's me out of the house and out of their hair.

That's true. I used to give my family the seasons regatta schedule well
ahead of time so they'd know when I wouldn't be pestering them

Fresh Breezes- Doug King