No Sailing Today

Jan and I had hoped to take the boat out (for the first time) sometime in the last couple of weeks - but it's not been right. Jan's work days have not lined up with mine very well until this week and unfortunately the 2 days that we could have taken it out (schedule wise) didn't match up with the weather I want to take it out the first time.

I feel that it's just smart to take it out in very benign weather the first time - while learning the boat. We've had small craft advisories for the last 2 days with 10 - 20 knot NE winds. I'll just be patient.

While having lunch today, Jan and I saw a NEW duck on the pond. Here's a photo. We're trying to identify it now.

Sunday

I got back home from the Florida vs Florida State game early. Since it was a local game, I was able to drive to it and thus able to come home when I wanted to. Here's a picture of the stadium at halftime.


I went to the boat this morning and took Wasabi with me to visit my dock neighbors's peeps. Wasabi was supposed to be back in Utah by now, but because of a travel mixup, he stayed in Florida a couple of extra weeks. He leaves for Utah tomorrow.

Last Regular Season Game

Tallahassee is home to the Florida State Seminoles. The Seminoles are a tribe of Indians from this region and the team has the blessing of the tribe to use them as a mascot. It's one of the few relationships of it's type in the country.

I'll have to admit that all of the pictures that I've put up on the blogs of the stadiums kinda look alike after a while. Still, I like to take photos of the inside of the stadiums due to the grand scale of the things.




In this photo below, you can see the smallest trailer - the one that looks like an office trailer. That's the one that we're in for this game.

This is a 'floater' game - where all the computers and such get shipped in and we have to assemble it all for use in the game and then after the game we take it all apart and ship it out. It is my least favorite shows to do. There's much more work and the computers almost never work right after being shipped. We worked from 8 am to 10 pm today and still had problems when we left. I have to be at the stadium at 6 am in the morning for the noon game. Lots to do to be ready.

Relaxing Thanksgiving Day

Today, I put a serious scrubbing on the dingy. I bought this dingy back in 2004, and used it with the Grampian. I had to leave it in the water in Key West for 3 months between February and May. During that time, it became a floating reef with all kinds of things growing on it. Barnacles being the worst, once I got the Grampian up to Port Orange, I took the dingy out of the water and put in in my storage unit. For over a year, I've had no use for it - so I've had no incentive to clean it up. It took a couple of hours - using some special cleaners - to get it back in good visual shape.

Jan fixed a big Thanksgiving lunch for us and I deep fried the turkey. If you've never had deep fried turkey then you're missing out. It's not greasy in the least and it's more juicy than turkey fixed any other way. Here's 2 photos of before and after the fryer.





Snowy pigged out on turkey and promptly took a nap on a warm towel that Jan had just taken out of the dryer.

I'm now in Tallahassee for the Florida v. Florida State game on Saturday.
Happy Thanksgiving.