Wax on-Wax off

We began our normal summer routine on Friday, April 26th by moving onto the boat for the weekend and enjoying our first cocktail hour on board.  The weather has finally turned toward spring like conditions.  We still used the furnace Friday night & an extra blanket but Saturday was gorgeous.  While waxing all day Saturday, we actually were warm & changed into shorts for a bit.  We really made great progress on Saturday, completely waxing the entire bridge.  Friday's forecast for the weekend, gave us hope that we would be able to wax both Saturday & Sunday, but alas the forecast took a dramatic change & instead of sun & warmth on Sunday, we experienced cool temperatures & all day rain. Drat!!  How many people would be disappointed that they couldn't spend all day tiring out their muscles?

Saturday evening, we were fortunate to dine aboard, Waterford.   The four of us enjoyed a splendid dinner, both of us having contributed our share.  Jacque found some delicious fresh baby beets that Garry put on the grill for a LONG time, but boy was it worth it.  Jacque threw together a wonderful salad of fresh arugula, beets, avocado's & pine nuts with a tasty balsamic dressing.  As Doug told Garry & Jacque, he has "never had a bad meal on Waterford".   Shoot, I've never heard him say that about Day Dreams. :)

Although we were disappointed about the rain on Sunday, we did enjoy waking to the sound of soft rain drops, so much, that it lulled us back to sleep till almost 10:00 AM.  Doug then got busy & was able to get the AIS (identifies freighters) up and running, all he needed to do was to buy some more connections. The hot water tank needed a new valve, which Doug replaced and has ordered a new one with a higher release pressure of 100 instead of 75.  We'll see if that holds up longer. The Satellite weather module still wasn't working totally, so the experts decided it must be defective, so Doug was instructed to return it and the company was sending a new one to us.   There are always rainy day projects to work on and a good excuse to go shopping, which we did.

Today @ home, was another beautiful day, so we decided after dinner to try out our new foldable Kayak, called a Foldbot.

Isn't she pretty? 

The kayak, not the muddy Maumee River.  It took Doug about 40 minutes to assemble the kayak by himself and for the first time.  It is supposed to take about 20  minutes.  Doug is sure he will get more efficient and of course Jan will help from now on. 

Jan does paddle sometimes!!

The Kayak worked great & so did both of us! The paddles are light and the kayak really glides along nicely.  It is not tipsy and we both felt very safe & secure.  We can't wait to explore with it in Lake Superior!  Well, here's hoping for the continuation of this beautiful, now summer like weather.  Today was 84 degrees, the trees & flowers are all blooming and the grass is a lush green, just splendid!!