Francis Update

Francis is approaching the Florida coast--slowly. Florida is now under a state of emergency. Francis has reached the size of Texas, about 1000 miles across cloud cover. Makes you kinda glad you aren't in Florida, doesn't it--especially after just getting slammed a month ago by Hurricane Charles. I've seen pictures on the news of the waves and wind in parts of Florida, and it isn't pretty. Boats have already broken their moorings and trees are starting to come down, amazing since it's only the initial bands of the hurricane that are pelting the coast, the meat of the hurricane isn't there yet.

On the homefront, we are pulling the motor on the sailboat today to do some work on it. We worked on the motor for the skiff yesterday, drained the lower gear oil and replaced it. We're going to do the same with the sailboat motor and see if we can find out what is causing it to whine. Hopefully just the oil will replace it. We're going to stop by Kim's for a couple of beers while we are out. She's having something of a party today, and I wish that we could stay for it and eat some of her fantastic teriyaki sticks, but Greg is adamant about getting the motor fixed today so we can enjoy the rest of the weekend. Mike is having a party on Monday, and we've already promised him that we would be there for that, so that takes away Monday, so we have to start working on the boat motor today, so if we don't get it finished, we will have tomorrow to finish it.

Other than that, not much else is going on. I got a lot of sleep last night, about 8 hours, and I'm feeling somewhat rested, but now I"m a little tired from getting so much sleep. We're going to be heading out to the marina here soon. I hope I can talk Greg into stopping by Dunkin Donuts for coffee and some breakfast on our way--I could use it! Dinner last night consisted of a chicken pot pie at about 6pm, so I'm hungry now.

Let me close this out for now. I need to get myself in gear and moving.