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As you might imagine, Libby and I have a good system for sharing chores. She drops the anchor, I haul it up. She cooks dinner, I do engine maintenance. We both stand watches but I take more of the night hours while Libby takes more of the daylight hours. The list of examples are endless. It's a pretty amicable split.
Mostly, we don't have to make a verbal agreement on how to share the chores. It just works out naturally. That is except for one glaring exception.
On cold nights, such as we just experienced recently, the cabin temperature gets as low as 38F(3C). On those nights , we put two blankets on our bed. It's nice and warm and snuggly under the covers. However, one of us has to be the first to get up in the morning and to turn on the heater. Guess what? It's always me.
It is really hard to paddle around naked in the boat on cold mornings scrambling for clothes to put on. It's especially hard on my bare feet against the cold floor. In the meanwhile, I put the heater on full blast. After 15 minutes, it is much more comfortable and then Libby can get up.
I love Libby dearly, but if I could duck that one chore I would. Libby also loves me dearly, but I doubt if she'll ever volunteer to take over that particular duty.
Could we share the duty? I'm at a natural disadvantage. I sleep on the outside of the bed. Libby sleeps on the inside and it is next to impossible for her to crawl out without me getting out of the way first. Could we switch sides in bed? HA! Unthinkable.
Because of that, sharing will never occur.
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'They' need to invent a remote to start up the heater on a boat. Whoever is the first to do it will clean up!
ReplyDeleteOR... you could spend more time in the Caribbean. That would be my choice.