Still waiting on estimates for the work that needs to be done, still waiting to catch the rat (we’ve decided it has to be a rat). We were awakened at 5:45 am by a big noise, yay we got him! No we didn’t, it sounded like the trap was sprung and he was dragging it around trying to get out of it, but no he was up in the ceiling above our bed doing God knows what. We are positive there is no food around, just the snickers in the traps and we take the dog water bowl up every night too. David did find the sump pump (the showers and sinks go into there and are pumped overboard) had overflowed and water was in the compartments below the floors so it could have had shampoo water to drink. It’s been over 2weeks I think that we have been chasing it, grrrr. We left the dock and are anchored right off the marina, close enough to poach their internet 😬. Tomorrow we go out into Chesapeake Bay and to the Eastern Shore. This weekend we will be in Onancock, VA a...
The ICW was so exciting today. The tides were with us today, we ran at an average of 8.2knots/1690 rpm’s and our top speed at full throttle is only 7.9 knots, we got a free ride. There was a lot of interesting things to see, the houses along the way were gorgeous, we got to watch a guy catching shrimp, several bridges which one of them was a swing bridge. I find those fascinating! I started the day by making a loaf of bread for dinner, then 3 loads of laundry, then 3 hours to give Ellie a haircut, then vacuumed everything (10 minute job) to get all the dog hair off the floors and took a bunch of pics in between chores. Then the excitement.....we came around a bend and saw the marina we are staying in for the night. It was not only low tide, but a King Tide. When the moon is full, the high tides are higher and the low tides are lower. Normally we fit just fine in the marinas but oh no, not when there’s a King Tide. We were...
Today is David’s birthday, mine was 5 days ago. To celebrate, I am making a birthday cake, once a year, I make a cake, what a treat! It’s baking while we look out our windows to watch a storm. It is one of those red spots on the weather channel. We just washed and dried the boat, that insured that it would rain, ha. I guess the funny but not so funny thing is, here at Dowry Marina, they have free laundry machines and anything remotely not spotless, is up in the machines washing and/or drying as we speak. We took some plastic bags up to the laundry room to put the dry clothes into and rushed back to the boat before we got completely drenched. Now the other 2 loads are drying while I fix scallops and ahi tuna for dinner. So....when I was 10 years old I would go to bed and in my head, I would make a list of 10 things that I accomplished that day. It wasn’t hard. If I was to make that list today it would include: make the bed, check, wash the ...
Hi Pam,
ReplyDeleteLynn Long here-- only got a tiny pic of your boat, and of the fence.