decommissioning is what the deltaville marina calls a haul-out on their work order. sounds so permanent, doesn't it? it seems so early in the season to pull cricket out of the water, but pull her out we must! tomorrow. but it is not permanent. only until next june... that's only... ummm, 9-10 months away... wait a minute! that IS forever! it will seem like forever, anyways.
pam woke me gently this morning, and then it was time to plan the day. but who can properly plan without a nice cup of coffee first? so it was dinghy to the marina's dock, borrow a couple of bikes, and head to the town coffee shop... oh yeah, did i mention with owen? yup! owen rode on the bike with me! many of the marina's bikes have baskets, so we stuffed a couple of towels into my bike's basket, stuffed owen on top of them, and pedaled on down the country road. owen exactly didn't love it, but he was a good sport. whenever a car came whizzing by he'd bury his head into the basket. so cute! and a far better reaction than trying to hop out! he did seem to begin to get used to it by the end of the ride. after some coffee and some breakfast (mine was apple pie and ice cream : ), it was time to bike back and get to work.
cricket needs to have all sails off her before the marina will haul her out, so it was decided that that needed to be done first. it was a very hot day (hottest yet), so it went something like: swim. take down a sail. swim. take down a sail. swim. take down another sail. swim. dinghy the sails to shore. swim. fold the sails on shore. swim (this time in the marina pool). bring the folded, bagged sails back to cricket. swim. eat supper. lay around with the fans blowing on us...
this evening we took jiminny on a little ride up and down jackson creek. there was no breeze at all on cricket's decks, so we decided to make our own breeze tooling around on jiminny. we explored a sandy spit that stuck way out from the shore. jiminny's outboard grounded on the sandy bottom, so i hauled up the motor and waded in with pam in the dinghy. fun! the seagulls were not very happy about us disturbing their evening peace on the sand, but we told them they could have it right back in a short while. they were all right back as we left their watery, sand bar so it was all cool. we headed up the creek, slowly motoring past beautiful houses, and docks, and trees, and little marinas. we went until the shores got quite close together, and the houses stopped, and it was quite dark, then turned around and went down the creek, back to cricket. it was very fun to just "lounge" on jiminny, slowly circle him around when there was something of interest to look at, and enjoy the sweet companionship of my best friend, pam!
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