While walking around the yard my mind wandered to the three-part memoir of a couple, Mary-Jane and Michael Houlton. The Houltons lived in Wales where they sold their home and everything in it in order to buy a boat. For six months out of the year they would cruise the waters of Europe with their two dogs while wandering through canals and mooring wherever they chose. It wasn’t always smooth sailing but their ingenuity was intriguing.