Summer In New England!

SHIP'S LOG:

Not all the "fun stuff" is done on the boat! aye, there be stuff at the Club to do! And since I am down here more or less full time, I volunteered to help. It was very good of me considering how beautiful was the weather and also the fact that the "stuff" meant putting down a new sub-floor upstairs in the Club. The old run had been ripped out and before the new rug could be properly laid, a sub-floor had to be installed. The major problem was that the second floor of the Club tends to be an oven. Short of air conditioning the place, not a likely scenario anytime soon, one had to resort to open windows and fans and even these tactics are really not much of a help. It was bleedin' hot outside, and humid too, and that just made the second floor worse.  Add to that the dust of 75 plus years that seemed to have accumulated in every crack and crevice and which seemed to regenerate no matter how many times the floor was swept, and it was, several times.

To say that everyone sweated freely is to "damn with faint praise" and  still, even taking it easy and drinking copious amounts of liquids, I actually think I experienced a little bit of heat stroke. When the "project" was finished, I took a cold shower and retired to ABISHAG, where the cool winds blew, and took a long nap.Truth be told, I didn't feel completely right even the next day and so I took it rather easy.

The weather has been "different." Monday we got whacked with a storm, actually just the edge, which still dropped 5 inches of rain and blew like stink. There was a lot of thunder and lightning to the north, but none that was really local. All the rain that fell on the hills rushed down, over flooded the sewers and ran down the Club's drive way and cut a nice little trough to the water. And there was wind! we had some gusts to 40knots and perhaps more. It made for interesting sleeping aboard. If the rain, thunder and lightning had continued, I probably would have slept ashore but as it was, I slept aboard, rockin' & rollin'!

Tuesday was bright and clear but just as windy as the front moved away. Lots of boats went out and turned right around and came back. It was one of those strange days such that when you were in the wind, it was cool and comfortable and when not, it was almost unbearably hot. O well  such, as they say, whoever "they" are, is summer in New England!