Day 321, Year 7: Fall Cleaning Projects
Date: Monday, September 24, 2012
Weather: Cool Overnight, Beautiful Day
Location: Eel Pond, Woods Hole, Massachusetts
There was a chill in the air last night, but the day warmed up quickly with
sunshine. Mark took the car and went to work at West Marine and I stayed
home and started a fall cleaning project. Oliver arrived at noon and left
at 3 pm, but the rest of the day was spent cleaning out food storage areas.
Oliver slept on my shoulder most of the time but he woke up when Heather
arrived and played happily while Heather and I ate a late lunch. After
Heather and the baby left, I made a royal mess in the main cabin by getting
food out of the cabinets. I still don’t have all of it put away as I need
to go buy some new plastic storage containers, but I’ll get it back together
before we leave on Thursday for a trip north. Tomorrow we are supposed to
go to Heather’s to make chutney with some of the apples we got on Sunday.
On Wednesday Mark works and I will go to Heather’s to watch Oliver for part
of the day. Then we will go to Concord, NH, to storage on Thursday and get
those things we need for winter weather. We will drive back to Boston to
spend the night at Jed’s Aunt Sue and Uncle John’s. On Friday morning, Mark
will have his parathyroid surgery. He should be released on the same day,
but we are going to spend the night in Boston, returning home on Saturday
morning. Sunday is Heather’s birthday and she is deciding between having a
party at her house with friends on Saturday afternoon or going for an
overnight sail. I’m hoping she chooses the overnight sail.
Mark bought a hand held depth finder today. As I clean out in anticipation
of our sail south in November, Mark is busy adding things we will need in
the Bahamas. It is very shallow there, so a hand held depth finder will
come in handy. You can put it in a bag of water in the bottom of the dinghy
and it will read the depths through the fiberglass hull of the dinghy. Or
you can simply hold it in the water as you troll around in the dinghy.
We’ll use it that way for ‘scouting missions’ in bays that are not charted
in detail.
