We're back on the boat after being in Michigan for two weeks. We managed to empty the house by storing the things we wanted to keep, giving away the things that we could to neighbours and friends, making multiple trips to Goodwill, and leaving the remaining furniture in the house for the new owners. The closing when well and we are officially without a house and it doesn't feel too bad. In fact we're quite happy to be out from all of the responsibility of home ownership. Mostly the upkeep. Now we can actually stay on the boat and travel during the summer months too. Of course Ben is thinking we should stay in Marathon for the summer. (For the record I don't see that happening. As much as we like it here we like moving around a whole lot more.)

Now that we are back it is time to get back to the boat job list. The first thing on the list is a solar system. We spend way too much time running the generator in order to keep George's computer and the fridge running. I believe that George will start on that project tomorrow. He'll have to stop planning at some point so we can participate in a wine tasting party at the tiki hut tomorrow. We're supplying the wine and our friends are supplying the food. When we emptied the house we had 40 cases (12 bottles) of wine in the cellar. We managed to cart 16+ cases down with us. The remaining cases we gave to friends and Jordan. Of course we can't actually store that much wine on the boat so we decided a tasting party will get rid of some wine and then we'll store what we can of the remaining wine. After that we'll go back in the giving away wine business. We know a few people down here that can store a bottle or two on their own boats.

That's the news for now. We were a little disappointed that we came back to rain, but at least we can wear flip flops and shorts again. Much better than socks and parkas.