2023 Life Logs, Day 151: Boat Launch Day
Date: Wednesday, May 31, 2023
Weather: Sunny; High 68, Low 54 degrees F
Location: At Home in the Cottage, East Falmouth, MA
She’s in the water! I had to get the cottage ready for a showing this morning and then Shadow and I took off for Mashpee where I had to get blood tests done for an annual physical. Then we went to the boat. I just couldn’t stay away. The two big trucks from Brownell Boat Transport were in the process of loading the sailboat and dinghy on one truck and the mast on the other. Brownell has an excellent reputation, but still it was disconcerting for Heather to see her sailboat rocking a bit while they were placing the braces.
I arrived just in time to watch the final loading and then Heather asked if I could drive into Falmouth to their house to pick up something important that they had forgotten. Shadow and I drove like crazy to get the items and get back to the boat before the Brownell trucks left. We made it with about 5 minutes to spare. Then the two big trucks and Heather and Jed in their car were off to Marion across Buzzards Bay.
That is where the boat would be put in the water. I headed home to cut the grass, but I was very relieved to hear later in the afternoon that all had gone well. Once the boat was in the water, there was a lot of jockeying around in close quarters to get the boat on a dock and then out to a temporary mooring. When I asked Jed how that went, he said Heather is an excellent captain and she did her job well. I am so proud to have a daughter who captains her own sailboat. In sailing around the world, Mark and I probably met a few hundred boats, but I can’t think of even ten that were captained by women. Maybe seven or eight. I know Mark would be so proud. He trained her well and I like to think he was there today watching and guiding her.
After cutting the grass and having lunch, I headed into town to pick up Jonah from jazz band practice. He leaves his big bass at school all week but brings it home after practice on Thursdays. It is big and heavy and he appreciates getting a ride. I did some shopping for an Encore event tomorrow and went to Staples to buy a cable and an adaptor that I hope will speed up the upload of files from my new computer to the cloud. Heather and Jed think that might be the cause of the issues I am having, so I’ll try to fast upload by connecting the computer directly to my router. I sure hope that helps. Then I took Ollie to his saxophone lesson. When we got back home, Heather and Jed were home and Heather was on to the next project. This winter she moved the plant containers on the deck which required rerouting some of the irrigation hoses. But to do this, she needed more of a particular irrigation line. I went to where I will soon be living to take some of the line from my irrigation system that I moved from the cottage, but it wasn’t enough. Heather did a work around and made it work. So, she now has irrigation for the planters on the deck. This Friday I hope to get the drip irrigation system installed in the raised beds at the new house. Only two of the four raised beds have garden soil in them, so I need to do something about that as well.
Tomorrow is an Encore day. I will meet with Christina Brodie, who will be co-president with me, to do some planning. Then we will head to a 4 pm welcoming event for Newcomers moving to Encore that we are hosting. No rest for the wicked.
