Day 316, Year 10: Boat Work and Cooking
Date: Saturday, August 22, 2015
Weather: Overcast with Heavy Early Morning Rain, Cooling Down
Location: Brewer Fiddler’s Cove Marina, North Falmouth, MA
Note: I need to correct a couple of things I said in last night’s log. I said that the repairs had been completed on Windbird’s split ‘keel’. Sure glad the keel wasn’t split! What I meant was split ‘rudder’. I also said the new strap to protect the prop goes from the back of the bottom of the keel to the rudder. If that were true, the rudder would have trouble moving. What I meant to say was that it goes from the keel to the skeg that holds the rudder. Sorry for the confusion.
Now to today. It was raining so hard this morning at 7 am that there was no way I could sleep with the rain pounding on the hatch above me. So I got up, went out in the cockpit, and put the rubber mats that we step on when getting into the boat on top of the hatch. That stopped the terrible noise, but now I was soaked and there was no way I was going back to sleep. So I left Mark (alias ‘Sleeping Beauty’) in bed and headed straight for Heather and Jed’s. I ate breakfast there and got the Chicken Magic Mineral Broth burbling on the stove. On Thursday I made the veggie version and we roasted an organic chicken for dinner. Today I used the carcass of that chicken to make the chicken broth version of Magic Mineral Broth. I canned the veggie version, but will have to wait until tomorrow to can the chicken broth as I have to let it sit overnight so I can skim off the fat. I have no idea if this broth is worth all the trouble it is to make and can, but I know that in the spring of 2012 when Mark was going through his first chemo treatments, things were going downhill until I bought Rebecca Katz’s cookbook, “The Cancer-Fighting Kitchen” and started using her magic broth. Mark’s blood chemistry made a u-turn and his doctors have been amazed ever since at his ability to just keep on going. I haven’t made broth since last winter and I ran out of the canned supply in early summer. So making the broth is long over-due. I really think it makes a difference, so I’ll keep on making it.
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| 150822 Day 316 Cape Cod, USA–Making Magic Mineral Broth |
Mark actually got up soon after I left and he worked on boat projects all morning. So I totally failed at getting him to rest today. He had taken the two small winches that sit on the cockpit cap rail apart so I could easily varnish around the edges. So this morning he put them back together. He also worked on cleaning and polishing the outside of the cockpit coaming. Around noon I went out to pick him up and bring him to the Heather and Jed’s. So he got a little rest this afternoon but then he went out and packed all of our books that didn’t sell at last week’s yard sale into the wine boxes I picked up at the liquor store this morning. The books were in plastic bins, but in order to drop them off at the library as a donation for their annual book sale, we needed to transfer them to the boxes so we could keep the plastic bins. Later this afternoon we delivered the boxes to the library. So that job is done.
When we got back to Heather and Jed’s I continued working on my cooking projects. I cooked dinner for tonight, so we stayed and ate there. We are now back on the boat but will return to Heather’s to can the chicken broth late tomorrow morning. At 11 am we will drive Heather’s car and our car to Quissett. We’ll leave Heather’s car there so we’ll have something to drive when we arrive back in Quissett by boat on Monday. Then we will pick up friends from the Concord Yacht Club, Beth and Bob Lux, and take them into Falmouth to a rental car agency. They sailed their boat from New Hampshire to here this week and are going to leave the boat on a mooring in Quissett for the fall. But they need to get back to work on Monday morning, thus they are renting the car to get home. We are so glad they called us and that we are going to be able to help out. After we deliver them to the rental car agency, we’ll head to H & J’s to can the chicken broth. Then it is back to Fiddler’s Cove. We invited Bruce and Jane Wooden to dinner tomorrow night. We’ll cook and eat in the club house as climbing the ladder to get onboard Windbird is not something you want to ask guests to do!
