Day 333, Year 8: Summer Weather
Date: Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Weather: Sunny Day with Daytime Temp in the Mid-70’s F
Location: Eel Pond, Woods Hole, Massachusetts
The weather this week has been just beautiful and today was a perfect summer day with temps in the 70’s. How delightful! I would call it Indian Summer, but that is term for this type of warm weather after the first killing frost. And we certainly haven’t had a frost yet. So we’ll just say we are having a continuation of summer, and we’ll embrace every day of it.
I helped out at Heather and Jed’s today and Mark stayed on the boat to do consulting work and to install the new heading sensor that will hopefully help our auto pilot steer a truer course. Jonah stayed home from preschool today, so Heather and I had Jonah and Ollie. That meant a lot of house work was not going to be done, but we did take a lot of stuff to the town dump’s Swap Shop and Heather was able to take a nap with the two boys. Ollie’s birthday gift to Heather of sleeping through the night on Monday night was not repeated last night. In fact, he hardly slept at all, so Heather was up most of the night with him. His cold is no worse but it’s going to take another few days before he rounds the corner. When Sam got home from school today, Heather made potato and beet chips for a snack. How yummy. And then she helped the boys cut the tops off their pumpkins and clean out the seeds to get them ready to ‘carve.’ This year they are going to drill tiny holes in the pumpkins instead of doing traditional carving and then put strings of small white twinkle lights inside. Martha Stewart calls these celestial pumpkins. Whatever you call them, the effect can be quite magical. I can’t wait to see them when they are done.
Mark spent a great deal of the afternoon installing the new Airmar heading sensor. This should allow our auto pilot to steer more precisely in tight areas like the Intracoastal Waterway. We won’t know how effective it is until we can go out on a calm day to adjust the compass and do a sea trial set-up. That will let us know it is set up and working properly, but we really won’t know how effective it is until we are actually in the waterway. So here’s hoping.
