" Sir Gregory Hall, Esq·" åke wrote in message
...

Poor Capt. Skippy! The Rube's been stuck in one place
for so long that I hear tell he's been raising turkeys on
deck. I sure hope he pardons at least one before he
eats all the rest.

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Sir Gregory

Hi, y'all,

We spent a week with Lydia's entire family - ex husband, mother, 4 kids, 2
grandkids and 3 of 5 dogs...

http://www.beachreunion.com/vacation...geDataID=54593

https://plus.google.com/photos/10818...84431100338657
are just some pix on the beach Saturday PM just before sundown, from her and
her mother's cameras - there are a few hundred others, not counting all the
cell phone pix from all the assembled, which haven't yet been uploaded to my
root directory next to my gallery...

Dinner for 13 was sort of anticlimactic to me in that all I did was carve
the 28# turkey (much of which got tossed at the end of the week - no
leftover food in the rental, and all others including ourself seemed to have
NO room in the car to take anything non-perishable, and certainly not to fit
a cooler which would have to have been bought to keep perishables at bay -
even though I thought it entirely ridiculous and bled at everything which
went into the trash!), and eat only turkey and mashers, the rest being
unappealing to me, and of small enough quantities that I didn't even have
the usual tryptophan rush. Watched more football in the last week than I
probably have cumulatively my entire life, and the same MIGHT be true for
basketball.

Refrigeration still an issue; the 3rd defective part replacement should
arrive today (which followed receipt and installation of two defective
temperature probes, which followed awaiting and installation of three
different - from the original two ordered - evaporation plates, all of
which, per instance, had a waiting time of a week in between all the labor
parts of the exercise), and we MAY be able to start our
1-week-flawless-performance-test-drive soon, thence to head to Vero/Stuart,
where her mother/diesel mechanic await either being ministered to in
searching for housing, or to minister to Flying Pig in the R&R&R of the
injection pump.

We hope to resume our shakedown sometime next year or so, perhaps even,
synchronicity-style, a year later than we'd started. In the meantime, we're
enjoying our new boat cat, Greta, who followed Lydia down the dock in St.
Marys just before we left, very similar to Portia (who's now a service
animal to Lydia's mother), the attractions in St. Augustine, and generally
making the best of a very bad situation. We've not been stuck like this
year, EVER, before...

L8R

Skip (and Lydia)

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Morgan 461 #2
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