Day 198, Year 10: Day of Rest
Date: Sunday, April 26, 2015
Weather: Mostly Cloudy, Rain Late Evening, Cool Tonight (50’s F)
Location: Lightkeepers Marina, Little River, SC
Today was a day of rest, or at least at much rest as the two of us can take. We slept in late and while I started backing up the photos from the past four months on other hard drives Mark snuck out and started cleaning the stainless. There was actually a bit of sun at that time and it didn’t take him long to realize that he was overdoing it. He is supposed to keep his right shoulder still and cleaning stainless just doesn’t allow that. I finished the polishing and suggested he take a nap. But he is just not good at sitting still, so we decided to leave the boat and go to Patsy and Joe’s. They have a couple of recliners that he actually loves to sit in and read and nap, so that was the plan. I took my computer and completed the back-up of photos on various hard drives and helped Patsy cook dinner.
While at Patsy and Joe’s we got a phone call from our daughter Heather. The Goldstones spent the spring school vacation week in Washington, DC, and she just wanted to let us know they got home safely. She said that Jonah had asked if Oma was coming home to do Camp Oma this summer. She assured him that I was and then Ollie asked if Granddad was coming, too, because he would like to give us both a big hug. Ollie sure knows how to melt Granddad’s heart . . . and Oma’s as well. It won’t be long now until we will be home and can receive those hugs. Right now it looks like we might depart here on Saturday and do an overnight to Beaufort, NC. At that point, we’ll probably go inside and travel the Intracoastal to Norfolk. We will visit with our friends Chris and Geoff of Shambala in Beaufort on Sunday, leave there on Monday morning, and hope to arrive in Norfolk by Thursday evening, May 7. At that point a decision will have to be made as to whether we travel up the Chesapeake Bay to the Delaware Bay and then outside to Cape Cod or whether the weather will allow us to hop out at Norfolk. It’s all about the weather, so we’ll just have to wait and see what Mother Nature sends our way.
