November 30, 2020 - December 6, 2020
The weather is getting colder every day. Happily the sun is usually strong enough to help the oil filled radiator warm up the cockpit nicely. Sitting in the cockpit in the afternoon helps me cope with staying on the boat so much as it gives me the feeling of being outside. I’m still able to walk most mornings and will continue that habit unless it is bitterly cold.
We have finally found the leak in our water system that was causing the water pump to run every hour or so even if we were’t using water. Bob got a suggestion from one of his blog followers that changing the hose clamps to smaller clamps would provide a better seal. So we changed the clamps on the hot water heater hose and we haven’t had the leak problem since.
I’ve been working on the quilt I am making for my son, Karl. He is a marine (not on active duty, but once a marine always a marine, right) so I chose a star pattern for the quilt and patriotic fabrics. I’m sure I’ll be working on it for most of the winter.
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| I have to make 61 of the red squares and 60 of the blue and white squares. They will be sewn together to make strips of 11 squares and then the strips will be sewn together. |
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| Here's what it looked like before we started. |
After three hours of lugging containers down, sorting and reorganizing their contents, and replacing them in the locker we wound up with a car full of garbage and Good Will donations. We didn’t make much of a dent in our accumulated stuff, but at least we know what we have in the locker. We are considering pairing down the contents more by selling off some items.
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| It doesn’t look much different, does it? |
On Thursday morning Bob couldn’t find his coat. In all probability he left it at Italian Market yesterday. Oh darn, that means we will have to go back today to have lunch. That afternoon we drove to Homestead Gardens to purchase some Christmas lights for the boat. Back at the boat we strung them inside the cockpit.
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| The blue and green combination is called Caribbean. |
Later in the week I made bows from Christmas ribbon and used them to decorate the cabin.
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| The bows, fairy lights and Christmas music give a festive air to the cabin. |
We usually stay close to the boat on the weekends mostly because so many people come to downtown Annapolis. After I walk in the morning and we fix our lunch we settle down to listen to or watch college football on Saturday (Penn State beat Rutgers 27-7) and NFL football on Sunday. We have been trying to improve our television reception, but it looks like the only way to fix it is have someone go up the mast and fix whatever is wrong. We will have to hire someone because, believe me, neither of us are going up the mast!
In my next blog I’ll take some pictures of the wonderful Christmas decorations around town.
Stay safe and thank you for reading my blog
