Day 334, Year 9: Another Goldpebble Overnight
Date: Saturday, September 20, 2014
Weather: Sunny with Blue Skies, Warm Like Summer
Location: Quissett Harbor, Falmouth, Massachusetts
The weather is a bit crazy. Yesterday was very cool, but today it was just like summer again. Jonah and Sam both had soccer, so we went in early for Jonah’s soccer and then went to Heather and Jed’s to finish sanding the Dorade boxes before going back into town for Sam’s soccer time. Before we left the boat this morning, we got into the cabinet where we keep all of our paint and varnish and discovered that we have no Epifanes Rapid Clear. Since Mark sanded the boxes down to bare wood, my normal process would have been to put two coats a day of Rapid Clear on the boxes for three days in a row and then start putting on coats of Epifanes Clear Varnish. I would put on at least four coats of Clear. BUT when we looked in the cabinet, we had no Rapid Clear (dries in 6 hours) and no one in Falmouth has it either. The West Marine warehouse doesn’t even have any, so I would have to wait until Tuesday to get it through Amazon Prime or just use the Clear Varnish that I have that takes 24 hours to dry. Either way will take seven days to finish the job, but I have just always preferred getting in the double coats of Rapid Clear on the first three days. But waiting until Wednesday to start varnishing is just too late. So I’ll start tomorrow and use what I have.
Between Jonah’s 9 am soccer and Sam’s 1:30 game, Heather took the top two supers off both of her hives. She was trying to get the supers of honey off before the bees start eating it, but the bees were really not happy about this. One thing led to another and she ended up with about a dozen bee stings. She finally had to just leave the supers on the ground in front of the hives in hopes that the bees would go into the hives by evening and she could then bring the supers inside. We’re not sure how that episode ended as after Sam’s soccer game, Mark and I kidnapped the Sam, Jonah, and Ollie and brought them to Quissett for another ‘Goldpebble’ overnight. It was almost 4 pm by the time we got here, but there was still time for an hour on the beach before we headed to Windbird for dinner. After dinner we had movie night, watching one of our favorite videos about elephants and orangutans—Born to Be Wild. And now all three boys are fast asleep—looking every bit like sleeping angels. Ollie missed mommy a bit at bedtime but Jonah came to the rescue by bringing Ollie a little stuffed parrot we call Windbird. That did the trick. And when Jonah got a bit sad missing mommy, Sam invited him to come to sleep in his bunk and he hugged him until he went to sleep. They have their share of brotherly ‘disputes’ but they certainly take care of each other when needed. Mark works tomorrow, but if the predicted rain holds off a bit in the morning, the boys and I will play on the beach before heading home to get out of the afternoon rain.
