Day 50 – 8.18.2018
Another two weeks has flown by (that might be an accurate preface for our entire adventure, we will see). In any case, we ticked off a few more items on the boat project list, notably: new gimbaled stove installed, new washer/dryer installed, and new bank of house batteries (three bricks of almost solid lead weighing in at 180lbs each, manhandled by yours truly up and out of the 6 foot tall companion way, from boat to dock and then in the truck to the store, and then back again, without any falling overboard or holing the boat or herniated discs in the process. I will add that our new, and first, boat friend Chip, aboard Second Set, was a saving grace on the return leg, when I was very close to dropping 330 amp hours of our investment into the murky waters of the bay. And the Admiral did belay a safety line off a winch for me on the way back down the companion way, which thank god wasn’t needed, as we would have been sinking fast if one of these rectangular cannon balls had slipped loose and stopped short on the 3/4″ of fiberglass that stands between us and the deep blue sea. It doesn’t sound quite as heroic typing it as I felt doing it, but so it goes with most heroics.) The boat is coming together slowly, tediously, but satisfyingly.
Amongst and intertwined with all this is of course is the task of keeping the boys entertained- which mostly consists of parks and library outings with Kacey in the morning, and naps and art projects in the afternoon, along with the occasional cartoon on the ipad to keep things civil. We try to head out on bigger adventures with the boys often- recently to the Science Museum in Baltimore, an old Maryland farm museum, and the coup de grâce, Great Falls National Park, west of DC.
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