My Art in 2009 Was Fruitful and Multiplied

In this year of 2009 I found my longtime friend Captain Melody. Let me tell you about Melody.
We met in circa 1984 in Key West, Florida. Melody lived onboard her trimaran, Waxing Moon, at Garrison Bight. She ran a charter boat business for women only. It was busy enough to keep her and her girlfriend, Kathy in rice and beans and all essentials. I lived at 1208 Bay Street. We were neighbors. right across a busy street from one another. I lived with my current, Jana.
I helped Melody sail her boat on the occasions she had a sail booked. It was always fun but we always got high when we went out and then I was pretty well good for nothing. I remember Mel and Kathy took me on a 3-4 day sail in the outback for my birthday one year. I have such fond memories of this time. It was full of swimming, sunning, eating , laughing, drinking, getting high, and spending our days with no clothes on. It's a very free-wheeling feeling if you've ever done this. Of course back then I was much more comfortable in my own skin.
I'm 261.2 thanks to Weight Watchers now. I'm absolutely loving this counting the points program. But I digress.
So Captain Mel and I have been friends for a long time. Melody taught herself to draw and paint. She sailed her boat - not Waxing Moon - across the big drink of Atlantic Ocean and stayed in the south of Spain for nearly a year. Flew back to the USA and returned to her hometown of Otummwa, Iowa.
Melody lives there now. Melody has a painting business where she paints beautiful portraits of people and their pets. I'm gonna try to get her link up here on this blog. She also has an animal rescue shelter she named Dog Star.
Last year Linda and I got not one but two beautiful puppies from Melody. I'm also going to try to post their pix here. Maybe a movie too.
In 2009 I was 55 years old.