Saturday, May 26, 2012

You can certainly tell that it's a holiday weekend.  There are boats everywhere, zooming by.  The people on the boat Brandy IV, came over by dinghy yesterday.  Their names are Rita and John and they are from Toronto.  They came over to say that they are celebrating that they are finished with the ocean.  Funny, but we felt exactly the same way!  They started to leave the anchorage this morning, and after a brief while, they were back.  They said some friends of theirs had called and said they are coming to visit.

We decide to put the dinghy in the water and go exploring.  It's been a long time since it's been in the water.  First, John's shoulder was bothering him and it aggravated it to drive the dinghy.  Then, we've had so many health issues that this is the first time in a year that we thought it would be comfortable to both of us to ride.  We put the updated registration numbers and seals on the dinghy and it started pretty easily considering it had been so long.  John had Sta-bil in the gas, so he's certain that helped.  Then he noticed that the bulb on the gas line was leaking.  Here it had dry rotted from the sun.  So, we ran the gas out of the line and put the dinghy back on the roof.  As soon as we get somewhere that sells boat equipment, we'll have to replace it.  We feel lucky that we discovered this before we really needed to use the dinghy.

We grilled chicken for dinner tonight and John called a couple of people at our harbor at home.  They were all celebrating the holiday.  It's lots hotter there than here  (95 degrees as opposed to 72 degrees).  It was nice to talk to them.  We miss them all, especially on a long weekend.  I took a few pictures of the anchorage where we are currently, for Donna.  Here they are:

 This is Brandy IV, right behind us.

 This is the sandy beach to the southeast of us.

 These are a couple more boats anchored near us.

This is John talking to you on the back deck.  Notice that nice haircut I just gave him this morning.