Sunday and Monday Dec 21-22

December 22, 2014 Monday?

Man, time flies when you’re having fun!

Saturday and Sunday were rainy days, but not heavy rain. It was just there, then it stopped and then it started again. Soft rain and not cold enough to put on a coat, jut a light jacket to keep the t-shirt dry! And I guess it’s to be expected. We had about 2 weeks of sunny!  Almost tanned!  This morning is misty but not really cold.

 

These trees are HUGE

Restaurant

Can you believe we eat here?!

Old road through old plantation

And spanish moss

Stained glass set in the cement

Another kind of oak tree

Today we will finish the freezer. I am going up to help hold it together and lay on the fibreglass and epoxy. Then we can set it in the space and work on installing the cold plate and the muffin fan that Joseph brought from Liz’s house when he stopped by last weekend...ohmigod, it has been a week?!?!?

After that we will move onto the helm station. We have all the material in the workshop, and since we only have another two weeks here, we HAVE to get it done in that time.

We had dinner with C-Soul last night. I made coconut and almond crusted chicken with “rice ‘n peas”, green beans and plantain. Gail made an awesome chocolate cake with blueberry compote as icing. It was SO good!

Today I am going to unstitch the mainsail cover so I can use it as a pattern and lay it out over the new sailcloth when it comes...sunflower yellow!!! Our sail cover is too small and all of the plastic clips have broken, so the sail loft about 300 yards away has ordered the new material and it will be here tomorrow [Tuesday]. In the meantime I am going to get off my butt and the boat and take my sewing machine back up t the work room and get rid of some of the material I dragged with me... like the cockpit cushion covers, and get them finished!

Yesterday we went for a walk towards the bridge and found a park that appears to be remnants of a plantation. [This whole island was plantation at one time]. The ‘avenues of oaks’ along the shore of the river was stunning. It’s illegal to cut these trees down, so they literally have to die and fall over before they can be moved. These islands were stripped of all the trees when they were planted with cotton, so all of the growth here was after 1776 except the oak trees which were a sign of wealth, so some of them are 400+ years old.

And mistletoe grows wild here. It’s a vine that grows up the trees. We couldn’t find any.

Anyway back to work. Just another day in [almost] paradise...