"Maintenance..."

One of the things about living on a ship is that it is in need of continual maintenance.  This may consist of many different aspects from cleaning tanks, to replacing rods in the cooling system, to continual painting.  But before the new coat of paint can go on the old needs to come off.  Now we live on a metal ship.  The way to get paint off of a metal ship is by needle gun. Now for someone who has never heard of needle gunning before, it sounds rather like a Woodpecker.  Now think of a Woodpecker resonating through a metal hull.  So we have had the delight of the needle gunning outside our cabin.

Ropes are anchored from Deck 8 and the Day Volunteers work over the side on the side of the ship.  I am glad it is not me on the plank!  But we are truly thankful for their work to keep our home looking wonderful.