Today Mary Margaret continued to roll up her sleeves and work on getting Leu Cat ready for our friends Steve and Portia’s arrival. They will be with us for a month starting in just two weeks.

Today she scrubbed all of the curtains, getting any small mold marks out and turning them back to their nice, bright, white color. To do this she used her trick of wetting a cloth with bleach and patting and scrubbing each curtain and then letting them dry. It is a simple technique but one that works like a charm. You just have to be careful to not letting any drips fall and bleach out any other materials that are around. She also wiped down the ceiling of the salon and walked around the boat removing any little mold spots that she found.

Living on a boat in the tropics it is impossible to not get mold. However, it is simple to remove and delay its reforming by using this technique.

Tomorrow she will clean the two bathrooms that are on the port side of the boat. One is connected to the suite that Portia and Steve will be using. The second one we will set up as a separate shower room for them. It is normally the bathroom for the second guest suite.

While Mary Margaret was working away I just tried to stay out of her way. When she gets this way she is a cleaning machine and is very efficient. I would just slow her down so I retired to the hammock and made sure that the anchor stayed secured in the sandy bottom below. It was a tough job but I was up to that task…

By the way, we wish to thank those of you that researched remoras to see if they are eatable. Apparently you can eat them and they taste fine but are a bit tricky to clean. It is suggested that you dangle them over the side of the boat for a bit since they poop a lot once you lift them out of the water. Also, according to my brother Don, they also feed off of the poop that you flush into the ocean in open anchorages like this. Yeach! I had my fill of poop recently when I cleaned out the sewer hose to our head. I think I will pass on fishing for them…

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