Day 327, Year 8: Happiness to Justin, Jo, Ziggy, and Coco
Date: Thursday, September 26, 2013
Weather: Partly Sunny, Still Cool (upper 60’s F), Winds NNE 5-10
Location: Eel Pond, Woods Hole, Massachusetts
Justin, Jo, Ziggy, and Coco spent their first night in their new home on the island of Culebra last night. Justin emailed this morning saying that there is some work to be done to make it feel like home, but after months of thinking about it, they were all ecstatic to be settling in. We wish them great happiness in this new chapter in their lives and look forward to seeing them in December when we reach Puerto Rico.
This was a first of three ‘get ready to head south’ cooking days. Today I made more granola. I made a huge batch last week, but that won’t get us to South Carolina. So I made another today that will last us through our South Carolina visit and we can make more while we are there. I can always make more along the way, but it is much, much easier to bake granola in a big oven with two big pans rather than in one little pan in a boat-sized oven. Next week, I have Tuesday and Thursday set aside to do more food preparation for the trip. Today, while waiting for granola to bake, I continued working on getting all of the winter jackets from Heather and Jed’s den closet washed and dried. I also had sheets and blankets from Windbird that I needed to launder, so at one point in the day, I had a load in at Heather’s and another load in at the Laundromat that is nearby. Mark spent most of his day doing his consulting work and in his spare time, he posted things that we have to sell on Craig’s List. Yesterday he sold two sets of pipe clamps to a guy from the International Hostel in Hyannis. Today he had two buyers for our old Alaska chainsaw mill. This is a device you attach to a chainsaw to make a portable saw mill. We sawed boards for making furniture in our cabin in Idaho with this mill in 1974. I hate to see it go, but we really have no use for it. We were hoping to sell our dinghy, but no bidders on that as yet. Our new West Marine dinghy arrives on the truck at 6:30 am in the morning. Mark is going to go in to help unload it and then sleep in the car until he starts work at 9 am. He thought he was finished working for this year, but a co-worker needs him to cover for her tomorrow. It’s going to be a long day for him, but he is turning in early tonight and he really will be able to nap in the car in the morning. Mark can sleep almost anywhere!
