At long last Charm returned to her rightful place in the water and regained her mast. Stepping the mast was a bit scary for the observer (me) and even more scary as the mast dangled in the air and passersby, like our good dentist Dr Bob, were pressed into service in grabbing a wayward line. However, all went well and the mast slid into place with no damage to persons, fresh paint job on the mast, or boat. This scene shows the final stages of guiding the mast into place. One of the yard personnel got to be the lucky guy down in the cabin making sure that it went into the proper spot with no pinched wires (or fingers).
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Remember Nikki? Well at the end of a summer of sad events, we got a phone call from the campground we had been at in Maine. Nikki had reappeared. Well, what could we do but take another road trip. So in the spirit of college road trip days, we drove up to the middle of Maine and back in 3 days. Nikki was so happy to see us that it was all worthwhile. She was skin and bones and had lost all of her front teeth so I don't think she had a lot of time left. Apparently she reappeared in the campground and the manager was able to catch her in a Hav-a-Heart trap with a piece of chicken. Despite her desperate condition she still wouldn't come to him. I cuddled her the whole way home and in her first days back she even warmed up to the other pets. Once she got some weight back, she reverted to her old antisocial ways, but I'm still relieved to have her home. It just wasn't right to have her disappear at 15 years of age in the wilds of Maine.
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Not long after we returned from Maine, Jim's Dad became gravely ill and we lost him the end of July. He was 89 and quite an amazing man. Part of "The Greatest Generation", Bill landed at Normandy, walked across Europe, was field-commissioned by Patton and married Jim's mother in France at the end of the war. This picture was taken some years earlier when Murphy was just a baby. During Bill's last days, Murphy paid him several visits at the nursing home. They were good buddies until the end.
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