Grant caught a catfish on Tuesday -- and let it go so fast I did not get a picture. Decent size, but he's fishing for the practice and would not eat a fish from our bayou... which is better for the health of the fish as well as his own.

Derek finished the cabinets next to the master bunk!!!! That is, the woodwork just got done. I still have to do the staining and polyurethaning. But the cabinets are done. We both have places to keep our clothes right next to the bed: woohoo! This is the current version, prior to applying finish, starboard:

and port:


Derek also replaced the leaking and broken shower apparatus with a new shower apparatus. I helped by bringing him two ball-valves to turn the flow to the shower (H/C) on and off. This was necessary because most showers come with a tub faucet that you have to pull on to get the shower to engage -- if you are only mounting the shower part, the water is "always on" -- how exciting. But we'd figured that issue out before the install started. While he was at it, Derek also wired a tank monitor, so that we can tell what the level in the holding tank is (and hence when to pump out) without opening it up for a (urgh) look-see. Yay!
The Great Holding Tank Monitor:


Derek even installed the indoor GPS/water temperature sensor/depth gauge by the navstation. It's not wall-mounted yet, but that will follow. Getting the wires to go through the right places was a real challenge. Glad that's over! Note that during the day, the water temperature is 91F, dropping into the high 80s at night. The sensor is only about four inches below the surface. Here it is, showing the depth (4.3 feet) and the water temperature at 9:30 pm (omg!):


Finally, the red oak table fell apart: the weather has been so hot that the glue went tacky and couldn't hold it together. So now Derek has screwed and glued it back together. I've continued to apply Cetol to the "new" version, and eventually I hope to get all the seams back to smoothness with my special Cetol filling... yum. Ted Germann, who does a lot of the fixing up around the marinas here, had the same problem with the glue on some non-skid strips he was trying to apply: it was so hot that the strips went sliding away as soon as any weight came onto them!