Winter Storm Eugene

No working on the boat this weekend. As the snow piled up on Sunday afternoon, we decided to go back and look through the earliest of our boat logs. There are 31 of them and the oldest aren't nearly as elaborate as the ones we keep now. They are mostly just notations of how much gas we bought and a simple description of where we went. We did come across this photo, the first one we took of the original Mad Dog, a 28-ft. Luhrs.

This is dated June, 1986 and it shows Bill surrounded by friends who volunteered to work on the boat that day. We had that leaky old boat for about ten years until we found the second Mad Dog, our much-loved 1967 Chris Craft.

The old logs note that back then we paid an astounding $1.10 per gallon for gas and in a few years it had risen to $1.49. Of course that Luhrs held just 75 gallons and we only left the Connecticut River a couple of times each summer. Still, we had a lot of fun on it.

We visited Defender Marine last weekend and Frances picked out a new LED light that once properly mounted, will illuminate our cockpit at night. Nice light and it cost only about $54, which seems inexpensive for a quality marine grade all-weather light of more than 1,000 Lumens.

Finding exactly the right spot to mount it will be another Frances-based decision.

 A few of our neighbors are out trying to clear their driveways as we write this, even though the winds is blowing and there seems to be a mixture of rain and sleet coming down. We'll wait until at least when the snow stops before firing up the snow-blower.

However, while the snow blows, Frances is in the kitchen making a chocolate pudding cake. What could be better than that on a snowy afternoon?

The next day...

Can you believe that Frances actually enjoys shoveling snow?  She really does, and even with that weenie shovel, she she cranked out quite a pile!