I finished my book this morning before breakfast. Got coffee but couldn't wait to read through to the end. It is not a "thriller" but really a page turner, characters are well developed, I think, and the narration through the eyes of a young boy in the plains states in a household of dad and children is compelling - Peace like a River. I've passed it on already.
Post reading we had breakfast and David had a long conversation with the man, Rick, who we hope to hire as our mechanic to realign the boat engine, and we hope to hire him to do the work tomorrow...since it didn't happen today...or hire him tomorrow to do the work on Wednesday. A firm commitment is DESIRED. I mentioned yesterday that we were action oriented humans much more than contemplative oriented ones.
Did a bunch of beauty and order, and deep cleaning this morning, new ways to get more cat hair off the upholstery (wet fingers and scrape with your fingertips). Only marginally got to FCP but will do some more work on that tonight. The problem is that my computer needs to be charged and that drains our boat battery. Need to get to shore to do a really good charge....tomorrow morning.
Wendy and Dan who are harbored about 1 mile away, back under the bridge for US Rt. #1, came over. We took our dinghy, too, and went on a discovery adventure with them which entailed going up Fraisher Creek, under a low bridge (we didn't exactly have to duck but), into a narrowing creek with mangroves squeezing in from each side. Finally, we stopped because the canopy the tree branches made was too low. Well, here is a tree that Dan can tie up to, get out and walk to the tailor's shop. Done. Then David discovered there was a public tie-up exactly across the little creek - one dinghy length away from where Wendy was waiting in their dinghy. She got in our dinghy and came over "to our side" and the three of us went to the Thrift store, leaving a message for Dan to bring their dinghy across the creek and join us. Done. David and I bought bicycle helmets for ourselves and beer cozies. Back in the dinghies we headed back toward the town park - a town park as there are many - to tie up and go into the more historic shopping part of town. Lunch first at Hog Snappers. Great. Then a walk and a short tour of the Lyric Theater. Beautiful, old, renovated 500 seat proscenium stage space. No wing space and no back stage crossover until very recently we were told by Ki who just happened to be walking by in the lobby as we were snooping. Sweet space. Great afternoon w/our friends who leave Wednesday for 2 weeks back home in Nova Scotia.
Home to Grace before sunset. Nice to be in a clean space!
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