Spring ?!?!?! or Winter?!?!?!?!?

SHIP'S LOG:

Well I guess it is to be the winter that wasn't/isn't! Despite the rather nasty predictions in "The Old Farmer's Almanac," winter sure hasn't lived up to expectations . . . . thank goodness.The weather truly has been almost spring-like tough it seems that every weather man/woman worth their laser pointers and computer graphics is hedging their bets, assuring one and all that certainly February will be cold and snowy and truly winter. It is what it is and it will be what will be. No matter what really happens we will all have to simple deal with what comes.

My P.O.S. Hyundai has been squealing indicating that it needs new belts. I guess after 130,000 some odd miles that is to be expected. Ray and Ken both nominated Chuck to do the job. He works with Ray, who is laid up after carpel tunnel and rotator cuff surgery, and Ken, who is his father-in-law. God bless him, the labor will be free though I had to spring for the parts - the three(3) needed belts, a set of plugs and wires( one of the plugs was miss-firing and goodness only knows when they were last replaced) and a set of wiper-blades as the current ones are starting to separate. The P.O.S. is getting $109.37 spent on it and so I hope it appreciates it and doesn't pull any more crap!

Still no word from the powers-that-be and here I wait, quite patiently. A little sail-lofting and stitching, work on the guitar, reading good books, and working on me. Things are quite peaceful though I have to admit I do jump a bit whenever the phone rings between 9 and 5. The call will come eventually but it seems that it has been overly long delayed for some reason. The fact that there is nothing that i can do about it to hurry the process along in any way makes the waiting at tines a bit irritating and frustrating. Then again, it is not in my hands so that's that. . . . and it is another day closer to spring and the sailing season.