Day 336, Year 9: It’s Official . . . Fall Has Arrived
Date: Monday, September 22, 2014
Weather: Clear, High Temp in the mid-70’s F, Windy Tonight
Location: Quissett Harbor, Falmouth, Massachusetts
Fall has officially arrived and you can feel it in the air. The birds are flying south, the leaves on some trees have started to fall, and some nights are quite chilly. It was a warm day today and it is still 60 degrees F outside right now. But the weather forecast says it will get down to 49 degrees overnight and will only warm up to the mid-60’s tomorrow. We are rockin’ and rollin’ tonight with winds coming from the west, but by morning the winds will be coming from the northerly quadrant and Quissett Harbor will be a bit calmer. But the northerly winds do mean cooler weather for a couple of days.
We are still chipping away at all the boat jobs that need to be done before we leave here. Next Wednesday is the day when Mark will hopefully get the ‘all clear’ from his doctors and we need to be ready to go as soon after that as weather permits. So we are down to the wire with lots of jobs still not done. I started the Dorade box varnishing project today and Mark made a final decision on which company we will go with for boat insurance for the next year. We thought we were going to be changing insurers, but in the end, we are sticking with Blue Water. Mark is currently working on a consulting job, so he is spending time on that. We actually went to Heather and Jed’s this morning as it is easier for him to do the internet and phone work that he has to do there. We also decided to do the varnishing job there. And since we needed to babysit Jonah and Ollie while Heather went to Scouts with Sam this evening, we had dinner there as well. While Heather and Sam were gone, Jonah built a train track for Ollie. Ollie loves trains and yesterday he really wanted to bring the GeoTrax up from the basement to build a track. So we did this tonight and working with very little help, Jonah got the track built for Ollie, tried it out to make sure it worked, and then turned to Ollie and said, “It’s all yours.” It was very nice thing for him to do for his little brother and I think Jonah was pretty proud of the fact that he can now build with GeoTrax all by himself. It can be quite completed and just last winter, Jonah was still depending on Sam to build for him. Jonah has made a giant leap forward.
Tomorrow we head to Heather’s so that I can hopefully get another coat of varnish on the Dorade boxes before we have to pick the boys up from school. Sam and Jonah have an early release day which means we pick them up at 12:40 and head straight to Woods Hole to pick Ollie up at 1 pm. We are then going to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s (WHOI’s) Exhibit Center to see the Remus-100 autonomous underwater vehicle that was attacked by Great White Sharks off the island of Guadalupe in Mexico. This underwater vehicle was WHOI’s official SharkCam and was equipped with six cameras. But no more. The shark damaged vehicle resides in the Exhibit Center in Woods Hole, so we are going to take a look.
