Well as you may have gathered we didn't go south this winter. Too many things happened over the last few months for us to get organized. So, with the boat finally back in the water, we decided to have a bit of winter fun and enter the local Christmas light parade. Here is Charm all dolled up with snowmen and a tree. The crew wore white Tyvek suits and fueled by hot rum and cider danced for a solid hour to "Frosty the Snowman" as we did the parade loop. It was a blast.
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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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