The marina is about half-empty and traffic is a little lighter on the roads.  We had light south winds for the last two weeks, but a front came through yesterday afternoon and now it's like living in a washing machine!  The winds are gusty and the water around the boat is just churning and quite noisy.  Luckily I finished my fiberglass and painting work before the big winds returned, and we got everything all cleaned up and stowed.  We were getting tired of looking at the mess.

We've been continuing our work on the project list, making good progress.  The list is still longer than there will ever be time for, and sometimes we need to remember that and try not to do it all.  Jim got the weather fax installed and working (see photo for a glimpse of the installation process), and now he spends hours looking at weather maps and text data.  It's some of the same data we can get on the Internet, but we cruise to places where we don't always have 'net connectivity and weather is something we pay attention to all day, every day.

A lot of our DeFever friends made it safely over to the Bahamas, but they have been pinned down by wind, which has been the trend this winter.  We hope to get over there, but are still waiting for the house to be finished... so we keep working on projects to keep from pacing.