Happy Easter

What a great Easter Sunday it's been! We've been having a great time since Daren got home! We went to see The Sound of Music at the local playhouse last Sunday, and it was excellent! What a happy story and lovely songs and it was fun to see sailing friends in it! Steve, Mimzie, Jacob, and Danielle were all involved and the local paper did a great write-up on them. The weather's been perfect and Daren's building a cabinet over the chart table. Every time he's home, he has a new project! Last time, it was a new dining table! This boat just gets better all the time! The next project is a new fridge. Our Adler-Barber uses too much juice because it runs so much, so Daren wants a low-energy Engel system. Our friends Michele and Joe on S/V Simple Life have a keel-cooled fridge that sounds interesting, but you have to haul the boat out to install it, and we're not quite ready for that! Our wind generator's been humming along lately, but it takes a lot of wind to get it going! It sure beats running the engine! Daren just finished scraping the bottom of the dinghy, and reports that the water's pretty cold! It's all relative, as I'm sure we're still in one of the warmest spots in the Country! You must check out friend Michele's blog, which should be listed as one that I'm following. It's www.sailingsimplelife.blogspot.com Excellent, and she's already posted photos from this morning's Easter sunrise service! We got to Skype Mom this afternoon! It was great fun to see Alex and Barb's new standard poodle puppy, Oliver, just 8 weeks old! CUTE!

Left Behind!

Sorry for the blog gap! I've gotten some interesting e-mails from friends wondering what's happened to us!! I always thought "No news is good news!" Everything's great and the harbor's been packed with boats. Time slips away down here! Daren's still commuting to Modesto every other 2 weeks, and Libby and I stay busy with projects. Bill and Diane on Tugnacious left Monday, and JoElla drove her car up to Jacksonville. Gary left with their boat Caveat yesterday, and I miss them all already! Lots of boats are leaving the harbor because of the fair weather. The wind blows ALL the time around here, which is why it's so nice in the summer. Libby and I are working on new interior cushions out of Sunbrella velvet, which is washable. Daren hates slipcovers, but these I can peel off and throw in the wash! We've been meeting lots of nice new people and last night, I went to a potluck at the chiki hut, which was a fare-well to departing boats! This morning looked like a boat parade! Soon we'll be among a few dozen boats instead of a few hundred!