Day 325, Year 8: The Purge Continues
Date: Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Weather: Beautiful Day, Still Windy
Location: Eel Pond, Woods Hole, Massachusetts
Our morning was spent getting a pine trestle table and benches from storage and taking them to a consignment shop. We also took some miscellaneous glassware. Then we went to Heather and Jed’s and got a big bandsaw and box of tools out of their garage and took them to storage to fill in the space left empty. Mark is posting this on Craig’s List in hoping of selling it. We have a huge bag of clothes that we are taking off Windbird and to storage. So we are purging what we have onboard Windbird and stored at H & J’s and putting these things in storage, but as quickly as we can we are trying to pare down what we have in storage as well. This job will have to continue next year as we are running out of time, but it feels good to finally be getting rid of some things.
We picked Sam up from school at 12:40 pm today as it was an Early Release Day. We brought him to Woods Hole for a dentist appointment which ended up being an erroneous entry in Heather’s calendar, but Sam was fine with that. He spent the entire afternoon playing with little Legos in our aft cabin. He can build with those things for hours. Then late in the afternoon, I convinced him that we needed to go out on deck to soak up some of the beautiful sunshine. He did his homework on the forward deck and as soon as we finished that, Jed showed up with Jonah. Then Heather and Ollie arrived. One thing led to another and the whole crew decided to stay for dinner and to spend the night. Heather had an evening meeting in Woods Hole and it sounded like fun to stay over. Unfortunately after we got the boys to bed, Jed started having an allergic reaction to the epoxy that we used in the aft cabin a week ago to repair the floor. He started swelling, so he was going to have to go home. The boys weren’t quite asleep when this decision was made, so they decided that they should go home as well. We feel terrible that the epoxy work prevented Jed from staying onboard. We were super careful, but it seems that if things were even in the same area when we were doing the work, they can affect him for two to three weeks.
