Margaret “Meps” and Barry have been quietly blogging about their unusual, untethered lives for over eleven years. We don’t have any awards, blogrolls, or commercial sponsors, just excellent stories, limericks, and photographs. There are over 600 entries here for you to enjoy, as well as a link to the Foodie Gazette, a website with Meps’ recipe collection.
On mepsnbarry.com, you’ll find tales of our journeys and the people we’ve met in the United States, Canada, and abroad. We occasionally stay in one place for a while, there are also stories about living in Seattle, North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida.
About Flutterby
We are full-time sailboat cruisers aboard Flutterby, a fiberglass Freedom 33 cat ketch sailboat. She was built in 1981 with a unique unstayed rig that featured carbon fiber masts, wraparound sails, and wishbone booms. Since purchasing the boat in 2007, we have replaced the rig with an equally unique junk rig that includes cambered sails and a split rig on the main mast. Her distinctive red, white, and sky blue color scheme has been the subject of many photos and at least one painting.
About the Squid Wagon
When we are not aboard Flutterby, we often travel the back roads in the Squid Wagon, a three-quarter-ton Ford Club Wagon van. It sounds like a big truck, and it drives like one, too. “Squidley” has circumnavigated North America, has crossed the continent a few times, and is known to many friends as critical infrastructure for the Happy Spot at Burning Man.
I’m wanting to buy another life size concrete alligator like I have now. The reason why is because my husband ran over the tail of it and broke it off. This statue is life size alligator and made of concrete. It weighs about 100lbs. There’s no paint or anything else on it. It’s just a plain Statue. It is always in my front yard. But it’s for a garden or a koi pond. The water that goes into the pond and comes out of the alligators mouth. I would like to know the price and what state you live in and if it can be shipped.
Otherwise do you have any ideas on what to use to fix the tail of the concrete alligator I have in my front yard? That alligator is a landmark for my house. When people see it when they are looking for my house they focus on looking for the concrete alligator. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please get back with me as soon as possible. The main reason why is because when the weather is to cold the concrete will not mature. I would like a answer or a new concrete alligator Statue before it gets cold. We will start having cold weather in about 3 weeks. It’s 11-2-2016 here.
Thank you for your time,
Tina J. Schmidt