tadhana stayed at the marina for a couple of weeks and rested after getting a thorough cleaning. tom flew off to seattle for five days and consuelo and i stayed home. i cleaned and worked - is there anything else? actually, it was pretty relaxing except for the weekend. for years, while tom was working in an office, we always made it a point to leave on friday just to be "away" for the weekend. we really had no idea what the marina was like when everyone else came to the marina for THEIR weekend because WE LEFT! now we know - it is busy, populated and noisy. it was good to see old friends and neighbors though and it's too bad tom wasn't around because everyone looked for him and, well, socializing is HIS department. by the time the second weekend came around, i was ready to be gone!
the good news was that the powers-that-be now say that our slip is OUR SLIP until we are ready to leave. good grief... all that hassle for what should have been, from the beginning, a non-issue! anyway, so yeah, it's nice to know that we can come back to our slip and not find someone else occupying it and running up our electric bill.
in the meantime, my two ducks had turned to eight ducks. i knew it was a mistake to feed the mommy duck with the five little ducklings but they were so cute and i knew that we would be leaving soon anyway. i had to feed them separately because my two did not like eating with the children - can't say i blame them - plus they seem to have forgotten about bowl feeding. or maybe, just too many people walking up and down the docks during the boating season.
speaking of boating season, the summer seems to have gone by in a flash! it doesn't help that the weather has been absolutely fabulous - cool nights that remind one of fall. always, in the back of our minds, is the thought that we will be headed south soon. for now, though, there is still the month of september, and we've got stuff coming up. i also need to watch consuelo better - she doesn't hear so well (or maybe she doesn't want to hear) and i think she doesn't see too well either, especially at night, and she has fallen in the water twice the two weeks that we were hanging out at the marina. it's hard to watch her get old.
addendum: one of the things that i did while tom was away was to break my bike out of storage. we thought we would try bringing it with us. tom has a nifty new folding bike and was thinking of getting one for me as well but i had a perfectly good bicycle (not folding) in storage so we thought we'd try that first on our next couple of cruises. omg,
where do i start??? i went to the storage unit to get my bicycle. both
tires were totally flat. so i got my little compressor out of the car.
it ran for a while and then stopped and wouldn't run anymore.
grrrr... even the light on the machine wasn't turning on. fine. i put
the bike rack on the car and the bike on the rack. i went to the gas
station and the machine wanted $1.00 in quarters.
i had 3 quarters. grrr... but i had two dimes and a nickel so i went
into the store to see if i could get another quarter. there was no one
was around. NO ONE. never mind. i went home. i got tom's compressor
out of the boat and walked back to the car. that didn't work either. i
took the bike off the car rack and put it in a cart and wheeled the
whole shebang back to the boat. tested both compressors on a 12V outlet
on the boat and only one worked (mine). wheeled the bike up to the
finger pier - the compressor's cord just barely made it. tire not
inflating. or rather, it inflated a bit and then wouldn't anymore.
still flat. grrrr.... so, i put the bike in the cart and wheeled it
back to the car and put it on the car rack. walked back to the boat to
get my purse and a bag of quarters. drove to the gas station, fed the
machine the quarters and tried inflating again. vfffffttt... instant
hard tires! sigh...... all that back and forth-ing! in the heat of
the afternoon sun, no less! exhausted.... the tires did hold the air though so that was something but three hours to do this job?
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