Friday January 23,
2015
Forgive me,
people, it’s been four days since my last entry?!?
Monday was a
holiday - Martin Luther King Jr. Day – not that that means anything to boaters
who are on permanent holiday. I just thought I’d mention it.
C-Soul left on
Monday and I can’t believe it brought tears as they left! They are about 60
miles ahead of us now so hopefully we can catch up in a week. Gail and I had
wanted to spend our birthdays together. She is 2 days ahead of me [and many years
behind!] but it was not to be!
TJ thinks we are
permanent residents. Even his wife thinks so. When Rick apologized for not
having made it to her art gallery, she said, “Don’t worry... there’s lots of
time. You aren’t leaving any time soon.”
Rick pulled his
back on Tuesday so he walked around hunched over like an old man for two days. That
slowed his progress considerably. Several Aleve and some hot showers over the last two days have helped a bit.
So, we finished
the helm station- two wires to hook up the radio. I finished the cushions. They
are still in the sewing room with my machine until we get the cockpit cleaned up.
The front windows are ready – Adam put in two zippers. We also re-bedded a hatch cover on the
propane locker and built it up so it wouldn’t leak. We built a ‘dam’ across the
deck to channel the rain water away from it as well.
We still need to
clean up the tools in the cockpit and put away the rest of the tools and bits
we have sitting around. I was sure that the cockpit floor was going to be replaced.
We spilled so much paint and epoxy on it that I never expected to be able to do
anything with it. But yesterday before we put the steps back in, I used some
teak restorer on it and the epoxy and paint scrubbed off! Not easily, but it
gives me hope for refinishing it! Just not right now. We need to get going!
Today is gloomy
and we are expecting two inches of rain in the next 6 hours but sometimes this
place feels like it’s under a magic dome: the storms often miss us here. If
that’s the case, we will leave tomorrow. Oh darn, that means we’ll have to go
to steak night. Really for $10.00, what a deal and he’s a better cook than I
am!
So today is clean
up and chill day. Look at the charts, find our next destination and get ready
to go. We can putz around inside the boat. Or we can go to the movies with
Diane and Andy [Windrekka] from Minnesota. They decided that if it’s raining
they need a day off too! More likely though
we’ll stay here and get ready to leave. Leaving here is almost as hard as leaving
Owen Sound was!
We’ll let you
know! ttyl
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