March 4

Worked fingers to the bone ("as hard as I've ever worked"... did too!) sanding... Oh, wait, already used that line. Anyway, sanded all brightwork and (take this you skeptics) actually applied varnish to scroll boards and a few other bits (I wave my badger brush in your general direction (If this makes no sense to you, watch Monty Python's "In Search of the Holy Grail'. Their version is naughtier and thus funnier)).

Enjoyed a celebratory brewed beverage and trolled the marina for invite to get additional quaffage. Found Dutch couple in a very boaty European design who came across from Canaries to Brazil (where they were tied up on their boat and robbed) then north. Currently headed for Bahamas, Cuba, W. Caribbean and Panama canal for transit to Pacific Ocean. Gregarious folks, they plied me with hoped for item... twice.

Should get a coat of varnish on all additional wood early in the morning, then fritter away afternoon vegetating and contemplating what to fetch to barbecue at 1800, which looks to be a popular draw from Sapodilla Bay and Turtle Cove Marina as well as here. If annoyed at length of preceding sentence, please add period after 1800 and replace 'which' with 'this' and as for capitalization, you're on your own, and by the way, if you use 'your' when actual intent is 'you're', please flog yourself with
something appropriate and take a bath in Epsom salts which may or may not suck out any swelling that could cause you to confuse the two words which have completely different meanings. Thank you. I feel better, do you?

Jack