Baltimore, MD and Johnstown, PA

September 15, 2019 - September 29, 2019

During the week of the 15th I had a primary care doctor’s appointment, a mammogram, and a dentist’s appointment. Lot’s of fun!

Throughout the week Bob and I took inventory of the supplies we already had on board and planned for what we still needed to order.  We try to be as accurate as possible by calculating how many of certain items we will need for the five months we will be in the Southern Bahamas but with some items it is basically guess work.  Just an example - for cat food packets we use four a day and we will need 150 days worth.  That means we have to take 450 cat food packets with us when we leave Florida. But cat litter is mostly guess work. Cat food and litter are two items that are not always available in the less populated Bahamian Islands.  

On Saturday morning (9/21) I left for Johnstown to visit Jessica and Joe and attend the Queen concert that was being presented by the Johnstown Symphony Orchestra (Jessica is the Executive Director of the Orchestra).  The concert was spectacular with a Queen cover band (Jeans and Classics) the orchestra, and a choir made up of select area high school students.  The concert sold out in three weeks and the audience was a cross section of the Johnstown area community. It was a great success. It was wonderful spending time with Jessica and Joe, as well.

The Sunday morning paper had a front page
article about the success of the concert.

Back in Baltimore, I was able to pick up my quilt from Linda, the professional quilter who did the machine quilting for me, on Tuesday.  On Wednesday, I trimmed the quilt and sewed the binding onto the edge of the quilt.  It then took me several days to complete the hand stitching of the binding and sew a label onto the back of the quilt.  I’ll ship it to Jessica and Joe next week.

 I loved creating this quilt and have already started
my next quilt which is for my second daughter, Rachel.
I think I have been bitten by the quilt bug

Bob and I test drove a foldable bike that was on display at Fawcett’s this week and were very impressed with it’s construction and ride.  The bike is designed to take up as small a space as possible on the boat (we are planning to store them in the quarter berth) and to withstand the salt air environment we will be using them in.  We are seriously considering buying them.

More next time…

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