Binomial Nomenclature

We like to name things. To say the least.

Here is a short description of what we have come up with so far:

Wendy Peppercorn - she is the name for the gang plank. For those of you who never had a childhood or like my parents, have no knowledge of pop culture, Wendy comes from The Sandlot. She was the lifeguard that Squints made a daring move for in the pool. I am not sure how we named her the gang plank other than the fact that she was always a risk somebody was willing to take. Appropriate.

Norman Johnson - the name of the dinghy. Norman came about because I was thinking of the time I read the book, The Life of Pi. In it, the tiger has a strangely commonplace name like our state of the middle ground dinghy. I couldn't remember what it was, so I threw out Norman Johnson. It stuck.

Richard Parker - I remembered the name of the tiger! And we named the van Richard Parker that we drove around in. It was a beast to say the least and more than one moment I spent thinking how Richard Parker was the last thing I was going to see alive.

Dimitrious the Succulent - our boat's name is Dim, but we wanted to spice it up and give it a more descriptive adjective. We saw a sign that said succulent spaghetti or something like that so I wanted to keep that great word in our daily vocabulary.