Kaimusailing

I of course had chicken Parmesan for breakfast on sourdough bread. I have still more in the fridge.
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Later in the day I began to think about dinner and I wanted white clam sauce with linguine. It is so simple that I don’t even have a recipe for it. I began by boiling 1/3 lb of linguine in a half liter of water. I decided to add spinach, about equal to the linguine, and the clam juice of a can of Snow’s chopped clams. A quarter cup of white wine went in as well as Italian spice mix, sliced garlic, sliced red onion, and a dusting of fresh black pepper. When the concoction was well on its way, linguine done, I added some Parmesan shavings. Mix well before serving. Don’t forget the clams, last.
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It is Mother’s Day weekend, and when I couldn’t get Cornelia Marie on the phone, left a message and texted her, I had two packages at the house. I biked over and was surprised to see Wilbur weeding the roses in front of the house. I said I had called and texted with no answer. He said they had been playing tennis. I grabbed my packages and biked back to the marina.
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One package consisted of all my VA meds, except for one. The other package was from TEMU and included a USB charging station with 5 ports. I had a couple of USB type C female to USB type A male adapters. Also I bought a heat dissipater for the propane stove. It would allow me to use the large skillet without burning everything in the middle of the pan.
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The smart watch now had a source of USB charging power so I charged it up. Cuddily phoned me and we talked a bit. She said she would text me if they were going to the Legion later. I could dawdle away the afternoon without shopping or going out, but I was low on ham for breakfast. If I went to the Legion I could go via the grocers.
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As it turned out I did get the message about going to the Legion and I departed with a large bag of trash that went into the dumpster and a small gratis TEMU shopping bag that received a package of smoked ham.
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There was obvious flooding on some of the streets and I did have to bike through some big puddles. At the Legion I parked my bike on the East side and entered through the side door. Cuddily was coming in the front door. We got wine, she treated me. They had been reserving a good pinot noir for me, so we both got almost the last of it. We took a high top with a view to the North. Teri arrived and I asked them about what food was good, as I had had a bad serving of fried flounder the first time I had food there this year. Shrimp salad was the unanimous choice, so I ordered shrimp salad when I refilled the wine at the bar. There is no service here, so if you can’t make it to the bar you are effectively cut off. I ordered the shrimp salad on romaine, not on hamburger bun, yuck.
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An amusing fellow dropped by the table and offered us what looked like dog poop, it was a fried mozzarella stick. We didn’t touch it and joked about it. When my little pile of shrimp salad on a leaf of romaine came, I cut up the mozzarella stick and mixed it with the shrimp. It was OK that way.
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I biked back to the marina without having any mishaps. I couldn’t remember the entry code for the pedestrian gate, but my muscle memory had me push the right buttons.
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Mother’s Day was gloomy, rainy, foggy in the morning. I had the ham and cheese omelet on sourdough for breakfast. I made an attempt to look at the Atomic Four engine, uncovered it. Not too much in the way of removing the cylinder head. Remove the alternator mount, just needs to be set aside, remove the thermostat housing, drain the water first, and then the head comes off with removing nuts from studs. The Moyer Marine video shows a fancy stud remover, it is a sales pitch. The studs can be removed by locking two nuts together and unscrewing the stud from the block. I am concerned that my engine has already exhibited signs of internal corrosion by the raw salt water cooling it, and the result can be studs that haven’t enough “meat” to hold the head down. In that case the stud hole in the block has to be drilled out and fitted with an insert that the stud can screw into. I already used one for one of the mounting studs of the manifold.
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The image is the view to the North from the Legion.