First four days of April

Four Days of April

April 1, Friday

Happy Birthday, Joe!

We went over to grocery store and picked up more fruit and vegetables. Quentin managed to download all the media information he needs for his next section of English.

Somebody announced on the radio that the Canadian Dollar had just balanced off at par with the US dollar, and every Canadian in the harbour was cheering...until we all realized what day it was. I think it was some mean American.

April  2

Saturday, we called Amazing Grace to see if they needed anything in town since we were going again. They didn't but wanted to know if we wanted to go fishing with them. Quentin was up and ready to go before they got their engine started. Of course, he is like Liz and Rick, there's always one more thing to do before you can leave.

The problem with shopping here is the foods come in on different trucks so you can't actually buy everything you need at one time. The business managers at the grocery store have obviously figured out the psychology of impulse buying. If you need bananas, you won't necessarily buy just bananas, so if they make you shop on more than one day, you will buy more than you need or want every time you go in.

We also called Pearl, who we hadn't seen for awhile, so we met them in town and talked for awhile.

We got back and Quentin was on the beach. Jim from Andante caught a tuna so they divided the fish up amongst the "fishermen" on the boat, and we have a piece to cook!

April 3

Today Quentin went over to Andante and cleaned their waterline. Tom called because Jim had been giving him a hard time about his "Dirty" boat, so he asked Quentin to do it.

We tried the spinnakers today. What a disaster!  We ripped the small one. We caught it on the shackle, so we have to lay it out and put some rip-stop tape on it then get it sewn. Ross says he can fix it!  We tried the big one but for some reason the foil side was completely twisted...[non-sailors --there is a side of this sail that had a hard rod running down it that slides into the strip of aluminium that holds the jib, making it a geniker, not a spinnaker...this is making the explanation worse, isn't it!]

So we sat on the boat and unstitched that foil strip, and now it works like a spinnaker. Stephane told us to wait for him today and he will show us the RIGHT way to set it up!

We all went for dinner at St. Francis Place. Quentin had pizza! He said it was good, but it had pepperoni on it. He ate it anyway.

April 4

I feel like I am missing something today, so if it's anybody's birthday I have forgotten, Happy Birthday and Sorry!!!

We heard that there was another ugly snow storm in southern Ontario. I'm ready to come home but not to that !!! The water here just got much warmer and the dolphins are finally back!

tty