We're alive. We're sailing (mostly motoring), a lot. We're learning. We're moving and shaking down this whole living, working, cruising and boat systems deal. And, we're in Alaska! But it's taking more time than we thought, and sometimes one of the balls we're juggling falls out of the air.

Since we bought SIRI in 2022, visiting the Butchart Gardens has been on our bucket list. We finally got to visit them recently: once this past fall, and again in early January during their "Magic of Christmas" display. To say the gardens lived up to the hype we had built up over the years would be an understatement.