With the cooling temps this time of year, I decided to fire up the oven.
Red velvet cake and brownies turned out to be a snap.
The tricky part was finding usable flat spots to prep everything. No Hill for a climber though :-)
HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!
It's not completely unusual for Kitty to be standing like in the picture, Stock still, ears perked and eyes focused on a small unfortunate, recently, thought-to-be disabled, crab at her feet.
If left to her hunt, she will eat the body and leave the legs in a neat little pile.
If I make the slightest sound, or stop what I'm doing, it distracts her and the possum playin crab bolts to the nearest hole it can fit in for dear life.
Between my bug eating pooch and a family of lizards, I really don't seem to have the bug problem the most boat around here have!
It looks like my pest control has learned the ancient Chinese secret art of camouflage!
Can actually see inside the Lil guy!
This is a bacon wrapped cheesestick. I think the chef at Bonita bills has outdone himself!
Thanks!
Well it looks like my lizards had babies! Every time I move something, one of these Lil fellers flops onto the nearest available flat spot.
This shot is an example of the condition of the "soon to be gone" roof. Years of add-on layers keep the wood constantly damp, resulting in a decent medium for these mushrooms to randomly appear seemingly over night.
One thing about it, tearing old roof off is always easier when things are soft!
The paint that was used on Rook has shown some amazing abilities for marine use!
I don't know whether to drain the blister filled with water or what. It disappears when not raining....
Yup, it sure knows how to rain in these parts!
All the flood warnings on intellicast remind me of the good ol days back in snicarte, IL. When the water was always coming to get me and my stuff!
While flooding is dangerous whenever and wherever it happens, I'm feeling a LOT less vulnerable while aboard a boat.
Kitty never has liked getting wet, but she dislikes cold wet the most.
So between the two of us, I feel we are doing something right to be cold flooding water free.
This is day 2.5 of the current weather measuring several inches of rain at a time.
Because of the saline conditions, trapping rain helps to alleviate the whole packing water to the boat process.
During these ridiculously heavy downpours, I have to stand watch due to the leaking water though the roof and deck. This is a main priority fix for obvious reasons.
After a very confused emergency call to USCG, they were cruising back n forth out here lost until my neighbor flags them down to point the way they needed to go. During the conveyance of info they had drifted near the mangroves near Rook.
Info relayed, the pilot put the hammer down about 30 ft from Rook while pointing to the 20 ft gap between the mangroves and Rook. This action produced 3-5 ft chop headed at Rook and Dawgfish which is tied to Rooks hip.
After the bouncing / items flying / tearing fiberglass, sounds subsided, I pick scattered items up and go on deck to survey the cleats (which I was sure were destroyed), to find out the cleats held!
Held too well in fact.
Upon closer inspection I discovered dawgfish had lifted the deck it was tied to and the hull had popped out from below the deck. All hardware holding the deck/hull together had been pulled THROUGH the fiberglass...
Heck of a way to start the day :-(
