18 June 2011 Game Day

Contrary to popular belief the foghorn does not keep you awake.  In fact it has a soothing effect much like the gentle rolling of a ship at sea; perhaps this is why on foggy mornings I have a hard time getting out of bed.  Thus we went from two productive days, to a less productive day.

The fog lasted for the majority of the morning, and thunderstorm rolled through in the afternoon, with the only window of sunshine too brief to dry anything out.  Since the weather was not being cooperative for continuing my porch project we had to find other stuff to fill our time with.  I made bread dough & baked it so we have bread for the next week or so.  A fringe benefit to baking my own bread out here is on the damp days, the oven warms the galley up nicely.  Later in the summer when the temperature is in the 80F’s it may not be so nice, but for now I’ll take what I can get.

While the dough was rising, then baking, Amy & I played two games of cribbage, and one game of Scrabble.  We split the games of cribbage one & one, and I won the Scrabble game.  After baking was complete I went to the Whistle House to begin working on my boat; I purchased a rowing/ sailing dory in “fixer-upper” condition prior to coming to the island.  While the dory itself is still at my folk’s house I have started stripping pieces off and bringing them to the island for restoration work.  The below picture are two of the seats and the cap piece for the centerboard box, after I sanded them down.  Hopefully by mid July I will be sailing out to greet visitors as they enter the cove.

After dinner we played one more game of Scrabble, which also went my way, before Amy headed off to bed.  I stayed up for a while to practice mandolin; up until recently I have been self-taught, and mostly practiced picking.  While the initial efforts on songs are rough Amy tends to like my playing once the tune is actually discernable.  Now that I am taking lessons, and practicing strumming chords, she is thinking of banishing me from the house completely.  Hence the practicing after she has gone to bed.  After my session was ended I made a final round locking up for the night and noted the lightening show was rolling back in on a gentle ESE’ly breeze.  Otherwise visibility was fair, the barometer was holding steady at 29.75”, and the temp was in the high 50F’s.