Sailing to Bermuda

May 14, 2009 - Thursday
Today Ken and I went to the beach at Tobacco Bay. While he swam and set in the sun, I found a place in the rocks to paint. I spent an hour or so doing a gouache study of some rocks with a little sky and seascape. We came back to the boat and finished off the lunch meat of turkey. Just as we finished Deb and Don drove in on the scooter and asked if we wanted lunch. I decided to head over to Deb’s and finish the painting I had started yesterday. I forgot a hat and it was quite hot in the sun and I did a lot of serious squinting. I think I spent about three hours working on the painting and then headed back to the boat about 5:30 pm. Everyone was there and we decided to grill the rest of the venison hamburger for dinner. We had a good meal and a good time. The Johns went back to their place for the evening. Before Deb and Don left he wondered if we wanted to go over to their place and watch the Red Wings plan in their final game of the series. Don took Tom on his bike and then I took Ken on mine. I came back to get Deb only to realize just before I got here that I didn’t have an extra helmet, Ken still had it! I called Don and he said he would bring it over. In the meantime Deb was cleaning out the lower storage lockers. The cans were rusting, some food was spoiled and an boxes were wet and soggy. It looked like there was mold in the area and in some bags. While Deb re-bagged and re-tagged instructions on the boxed stuff, I took out the cans and cleaned them. We left everything out to dry. Don dropped off the helmet and headed back to watch the game. When Deb and I were done, I took her back to her place. The guys watched the game, ate some cookies and popcorn and enjoyed the drama of the playoffs. It was a good close game and the Wings won. In the meantime Don told me his headlight on his bike went out on the way home. So I took Ken to the boat first as he had just said goodbye to Deb and Don. Then I went back and got Tom and brought him back to the boat. I was glad I had my legs zipped on to the shorts and I was wearing my Browning coat. The wind was really howling and it was cool! I went to bed and read until about 12:30 am.