Friday, December 26, 2008

Christmas Dinner

We were invited to the 30 foot boat, "Off Call" by Joe and Wendy for Christmas dinner last night. Laurie has talked with Joe for a few years on the morning ham net, and we've been enjoying getting together. They had a full size turkey cooking in the oven, mashed potatoes, gravy, and cranberry sauce. I brought squash (frozen and brought from home), along with fresh green beans with almonds and cilantro. What a feast!! We enjoyed lots of wine and conversation. It was a riot to watch Wendy cleaning
up the turkey after dinner, getting it ready for their refrigerator. Her little kitchen is at the base of the hatchway and ladder and she was very adept at tossing the useless pieces out the hatch with precision accuracy! I really should have filmed it!

Yesterday, Laurie replaced our outdoor speakers with new ones. We thought we had purchased the correct size, however we were off by 1/4 inch. Because we had no jig saw, Laurie worked away at it with the dremel and hack saw. Seems as if all these little jobs become big pretty quick! After that, we decided to re-anchor since we had dragged about 12 feet in the night. One engine refused to start, so before you knew it, Laurie had the key assembly taken apart and was spreading glue everywhere.
The windlass refused to work too, since it only works with the engine that wouldn't start! So after a bit of fiddling, Laurie had it all back together with everything working again. The small job of re-anchoring stretched from a 10 minute job to about an hour and a half! Oh well, what else was there to do?!

Today, we're enjoying reading and doing next to nothing! Maybe when things open up tomorrow we'll head into town.