Happy Thanksgiving!

SHIP'S LOG:

Thanksgiving! There is really something wonderful about a holiday that is dedicated to over-eating. A year ago, I spent it in Beaufort, SC, with the "outrageous "Guy McSweeney and family. Coming and going, Beaufort was perhaps the best place on the trip. From the people to the temperature, it was wonderful. Perhaps the only drawback was the gnats, but even they could not take that much away from the place and the people. Not to mention the food.

Here it is cold and rainy and we shall not see the 70's again before late spring at the earliest. I am not looking forward to the snow either. Then again, it is all a part of the wonder that is New England.

I emptied ABISHAG on Monday having found that they had hauled her the Tuesday before. Never did get that call and that disappoints me. I have not been completely thrilled with the place though I can't say that anything "bad" has happened, but there is just a feeling of "slovenliness" or something about the place. Perhaps it is just a feeling stemming from the fact that it is the fall and haul-out time and perhaps this will all change by spring. Perhaps I am just experiencing the effects of my cold or the lack of sunshine or something else similar. Who knows for sure? It is just a feeling. In any event, the insides are now outside and stored in a warm, dry cellar to sleep until spring. Now if I can just get there myself.