Okay, it was a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. But it counts!

The reefer (refrigerator on a boat) quit working this past weekend. All of our food went south fast. It was not a fun job pulling that food out of there, let me tell you! No, I did not take any refrigerator experiment pictures for you.

Moving onto the sailboat is filled with all sorts of challenges. We have been ferociously sorting, labeling, velcroe-ing, finding cubby holes to stuff, buying Rubbermaid/Sterlite containers, pulling extension cords through openings and figuring out how much an extension cord can take before you trip the breaker, making boarding steps and a landing area to the boat, filling water tanks and 'getting the antifreeze out of the lines', setting up the TV and figuring out how to keep it from falling over when weather is rough. Every surface area has been full of stuff to figure out it's future permanent location. It has been difficult finding one seat some evenings.

Each day, a few extra issues pop up and we come up with a new solution. The freezer space in our reefer equates to enough space to put 2 frozen juice cans. The air conditioner will cool one small space, but not the entire boat. We bought a freezer and air conditioner. Problem solved. Well . . . Air conditioner didn't work well and the one we had running already we figured would have to do for now. Did I mention that the temperature has been in the 100's (no, that's not a typo)? 100's for God's sake ... Lord, what are you thinking?

And on top of that, the reefer dies.

But remember ... we bought a freezer ... and got power lines run to it that isn't tripping any breakers! Thank you Lord!

I keep thinking every day ... "I've got to get this part of the list done today." And I was commenting to my mom yesterday that I'm really looking forward to being able to cook! Well, I did it. I cooked! Check.

Did you ever think, "What a gift to have a list?" A list is not just something to do and get done. It is the ability to be productive - with God at the head. God made it so that we could be productive.

It's a double edged sword, however. Being productive can also mean "suicide missions on a daily basis." I have a tendency to have unrealistic deadlines in my list completion zone of operation. I enjoy being productive! But if the list becomes a suicide mission, then we miss the celebrations of life.

Antidote to "Suicide List Getting Done Missions": Celebrate what got done with and through God.

So, let me say it again: I cooked today! Uff-da!