Welcome Back!!!Re: [Rhodes22-list] Re-learned how to read

[Mary Lou Troy]

Ben,
That is good news indeed. We'll be looking for pics and a report. Hope all is well or mending in the rest of your world.

Mary Lou
1991 R22 Fretless
Rock Hall (Swan Creek), MD

>From: Ben Schultz <benonvelvetelvis at theskinnyonbenny.com>
>Date: 2006/07/27 Thu PM 03:22:58 CDT
>To: The Rhodes 22 mail list <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Re-learned how to read

>Howdy Fellow Rhodies,
>
>Although I never unsubscribed, I've effectively been off list for many 
>months now.  I didn't give it much conscious thought, but I pretty much 
>disappeared at about the time I returned my boat to Edenton for a 
>post-hurricane overhaul.  I suppose I didn't want to hear about all the 
>sailing everyone else managed to do this summer.  I'm a petty and 
>jealous person, you know.
>
>Anyway, I'm delighted to report that there's a light at the end of the 
>tunnel, and that I'll be back at the tiller during the beautiful weather 
>of fall.  I'm heading back to Edenton at the end of August, and planning 
>a re-christening on August 29.  This is an odd day to christen (a 
>Tuesday in the most miserable month of the year), but it marks the one 
>year anniversary of Katrina filling it with water, ripping off most of 
>the rigging, and leaving it upside down as a giant barnacle farm. 
>
>I'm tickled pink to be back, and I'm glad to see that as with any soap 
>opera, I am able to jump right back in and follow the story line as if I 
>had never been gone.
>
>Ben
>R22 Velvet Elvis
>
>
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