Day 118, Year 8: The Never Ending Story
Date: Friday March 1, 2013
Weather: Sunny, Temp Around 60 degrees F
Location: Lightkeepers Marina in Coquina Harbor, Little River, SC
I feel like I am writing the ‘never ending story’ each night when I write this log these days. We are making progress, but reporting on the progress on the current projects seems like a broken record. Today Mark did more work on the teak deck and I continued to work on photos. He used a drill to countersink each of the holes he made in the past two days by removing the screws that were exposed (no wooden plug left covering them). I then used the shop vac to clean up the mess he made on the deck by drilling. I worked on renaming Year One photos, AGAIN, and made it through American Samoa. I now have only Western Samoa, Tonga, and New Zealand to go. Both Mark and I agree that going through this renaming process has been good for both of us. I see each of the photos when I rename them and he sees each one when he uploads them to the internet. Seeing them has reminded us of just how beautiful the South Pacific is and what wonderful things we did there. We saw and did so much more after the South Pacific that the memories had faded. Now they are alive again. In the afternoon we went to my sister’s and I then switched to naming the slides Joe has been scanning, scanning, scanning. While I did this, Mark uploaded the renamed photos to the web. Tomorrow or Sunday he hopes to be able to get the uploaded photos attached to the Year One logs and I hope to complete the renaming process. These are lofty goals, but it sure would be nice to have this project behind us. Before we can do that, however, we hope to get all of the holes in the deck re-screwed and plugged. Another lofty goal, but we are going for it. Our friend Lee Kaufman thinks he can come over to help and if he can help Mark, I can continue on the photo process. That would be great.
My brother-in-law Joe has spring fever and is itching to get some things planted. Can you believe it is March already? Tomorrow someone is coming to work on the garden beds, so next week we can get some things planted. In between scanning slides, Joe has been experimenting with his new Zojurushi breadmaker and both Mark and I are really impressed with the results. Mark makes bread in Heather and Jed’s Zojurushi when we are on the Cape, but almost always his whole wheat loaves fall at the last minute and have a sunken middle. Joe is a chemist and he has been using those skills to experiment and come up with perfect loaves. He has started using something called Vital Wheat Gluten that is recommended in the book that came with the breadmaker. We think that is the key. Today’s whole wheat loaf was the best I have ever seen or tasted. So we are trying to learn the tricks of the trade from Joe. It’s funny that we first taught Joe to make whole wheat bread years ago and now he is teaching us how to produce the perfect loaf in a breadmaker. And a friend in Concord, New Hampshire, read in my log that Joe got a new breadmaker and she sent some great tips that she learned at a breadmaking class hosted by King Arthur’s Flour. Marte Ring is a good friend because I had her three children in first grade a few years back. So we taught Joe to make bread and now he teaches us. I taught Marte’s children and now she teaches us. What goes around comes around.
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