Monday, September 29, 2008

Welcome back! When last we ‘spoke’ YA was at her slip in Connelly and Fred and I were at HPC. We spent time with the kids and grandkids, visited every doctor and dentist we know--were cleaned, and viewed inside and out. Here is a day for you--I responded to a 1993 traffic ticket (DMV is cleaning up old records, apparently, and a not guilty plea earned me a $110 fine and NO moving violation.) From there I went directly to the colonoscopy center. Uffda. Not a day I’d like to repeat any time soon. The weather reports--a mariner’s most important friend, perhaps, said we’d have sunny beautiful weather for 10 days, and on Monday Fred drove the boat to Newburgh and I brought the car home and met him at the dock. Tuesday we were underway and LO the weather changed. We stopped before dark at Liberty Landing, and Wednesday morning were only able to make it to Sandy Hook, NJ before the swells became more than we wanted to deal with. So here we are, at the Atlantic Highlands Municipal marina, and here we shall stay until the weather says go. The tide has been uncommonly high, rain, wind, waves and fog uncommonly constant--we had whitecaps at the dock, behind a long breakwater! We’ve sneaked into the cute little one mile square town a couple of times, and once again are grateful for the soft sided wheely cooler that makes grocery shopping less burdensome! This is being written on Sunday, and we expect to head south tomorrow. See you next week! Fred and Linda, tucked in to wait out the storms.