Libby's Good to GO!

Well, the tooth is fixed and we bought another phone, and Don called from Missouri Thursday night with great news: he and Cheryl received Libby's Bahamian dog entrance papers...in the mail! Here we've been waiting for the FAX to arrive at Tracy's office in Stuart! Cheryl's daughter, Holley, scanned and e-mailed them to us to print out, so Hooray! We celebrated Daren's 65th bday on Friday, July 20th. I'm glad to say he's hardly changed in these 35 years since we met in San Diego, just before his 30th! Boat life keeps him strong, healthy, and happy! We're still in Marathon, and still waiting for an outboard engine! Things don't happen very fast in the Keys! Mechanic Cody's working on a 15 HP Mariner for us, but we're not sure when it'll be ready! We'd like to leave for the Bahamas before lobster season begins in August, and the water becomes an obstacle course of traps! Tom up in Stuart is looking for an outboard for us, too, but we hope to find one here and make a bee-line for Bimini! Meanwhile, it's such a great spot! It's a very calm anchorage, and every morning, I row Libby over to the south end of the defunct bridge, where there's an old un-used road (since the bridge is out!), with nothing but trees and land crabs, a radio tower, and a few trash piles. Libby and I also found some burned-out bee hives...about 15 of them at the west end of the road. One colony's still buzzing with activity, but we didn't get too close, in case they're Africanized (aka killer-bees)! Boat neighbor, Kevin loaned us a great book, Voyage of Commitment, by Raymond Triplett. He and his wife made an 8 yr circumnavigation between 1973 and 1981, going west from San Francisco. They had some amazing and harrowing experiences! He reminds me of Dirk Pitt in those Clive Cussler novels....a quasi-super-hero getting out of tight jams! Triplett gives God credit, though, and of course, that's the key to his "luck"! I love this line: "Time, not money, is the real currency of our lives...when time is expended, it can never be replaced." There's a sobering thought! I'd better get off this computer!! : )