Errands, Friends and Fun .... 18/19th Sept 2012
Yesterday was a bit of a different day. Mike has a tooth that has been bothering him and had
managed to get an appointment with our dentist in Weston, MA. The traffic was astonishing, despite leaving
East Greenwich at 6:30 am it seemed we were going to be late for his 9:00 am
appointment. The dentist sent him off to
the endodontist (?) who was unconvinced that the problem is the tooth that Mike
thinks is hurting (and did nothing). I guess they don’t
think much of Mike as a tooth-sayer.
While we were in our old stomping grounds, we did a few
errands. These included picking up some
medications from the pharmacy, acquiring some additional warm clothes (those
few weeks in Maine were an eye-opener) and purchasing some second hand
books. I managed to have lunch with one
friend at AZ (also saying hello to many others) and dinner with another
friend. Mike arranged to go to the
climbing wall with a set of his pals and then had dinner (and one or two
‘hops-teas’) with a few more. We spent
the night at our friend Gunther’s house.
He was kind enough to offer us not only beds for the night but also a
fantastic breakfast of cappuccino and croissants. Almost enough to make you think you were in
Paris…
Today we returned to the boat and the glamorous chores. Mike did some more work on installing the
monitor into the holding tank. I
continued to sand down the teak “eyebrow” that goes around the top of the cabin
on the outside. Mike got one coat of
varnish on this before we gave up for the day. Tomorrow we will start on replacing the hoses on the holding tanks and hopefully get more coats of varnish on the "eyebrow". Ah, the joys
of the boating life.…
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