Winter life in the Hobbit Hole

The following pictures describe winter life in the "Hobbit Hole". The Hobbit Hole is actually the old deckhouse of the rehabilitated schooner Adventuress. She is a B.B. Crowninshield designed schooner built in 1913. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventuress_(schooner)
She operates in a shipboard educational capacity here in Puget Sound.

Cap'n Wayne-o, my landlord, was an officer aboard, (or maybe Captain; i'm not sure), and couldn't bear to see the old deckhouse destroyed, so he and a former boatschool student built a small cord-wood base and added the deckhouse lid. They later built a small 6'x6' kitchen addition. The Port Hadlock Marina unwittingly provides shower facilities to Hobbit Hole residents. The showers there are leagues above my shower in knoxville in both capacity, and quality.

The inimitable Sarah Taylor eating yogurt covered pretzels. I lost ten pounds when i moved out of the Ice Cream Monster's lair. I gained it back when the Ice Cream Monster brought cookies and preztels with her to WA. Why not ice cream, you ask? Cause my dorm fridge has a freezer the size of a pack of cards.

Too much Jack London. Now i know why the top of the stove is flat. The "white top" grandpa dishes work nicely for keeping my flapjacks warm while i'm cooking for the other Klondike '49ers.

ST also brought the "Chicken Hat" She is crazy. She said she was not sure i would wear it. I asked her if she had ever met me before. Of course i'm going to rock the chicken hat!

Pardon the mixed metaphors, but Hobbit Holes, Schooners, and Jack London Klondike flapjacks make for a pretty romantic life here in the Pacific Northwest.