Wednesday, November 24, 2010



Little Visitor

 Spent most of the day stashing stuff onboard and organizing while Wayne worked on taking the pulpit apart from the bowsprit. I got some good shots of Elvis basking in the sun this morning. When Wayne took the pop rivet gun to Tam & Joes, they told him to tell me that Elvis was over by the powerboat. He said uh uhhh, and then I’ll lose my helper! Well he told me and yes, he lost his helper as I scurried over with my camera in hand to see if I could find my gator. Sure enough there he was, basking in all his glory. He must be a good 6-8 feet long! I made it up to Wayne by bringing him back an ice-cream cone, and then went to work putting the snaps on my butterfly hatch cover.
When 5:30 rolled around we went over to the patio area. They really put on a spread for the guests here! Tonight at sundown it was the "Grape Escape" Wine Tasting and Grape Stomping Competition along with music by the Dr. Dave Band and Dancing. Wine & Hors d'oeuvres galore made another wonderful dinner for us (with a keg of beer and various sodas too). Tammy & Joe were a little late but didn’t miss out on anything. I’d signed Tammy & me up for the grape stomping competition then found out it was supposed to be by boat. Wayne didn’t want to join me but Joe helped me out and then he and Tam entered the competition too.

I was shocked to find out that I’d won second place with Joe and won a ribbon and a bottle of wine J Wow! I’d have actually been happy just to win a bag of the grapes and we actually got a couple of bags (Tammy & I). Then we proceeded to try out some of the wines and danced to the Dr. Dave Band. Tam got Wayne up dancing with us and it was great fun. Dr. Dave’s lady was a very pretty half oriental girl that we also got up dancing with us. I think that made Wayne’s night LOL. It was a very fun night. I’d brought some of the glow bracelets for the little kids and they were all running around with them glowing in the dark.

The owner here (Scott) looks like my nephew Lonnie. He’s a very good-looking young man with a very attractive wife and a couple of pretty daughters (either one – Lonnie or Scott!). I’m not sure how they came to own the marina they seem so young, but it looks like they’re doing everything right. We stayed out past our bedtime tonight and didn’t wander back to the boat until 10:00pm. Guess I’m sleeping in, in the morning! Tammy is going to enter the pie contest tomorrow – I’ll have to vote for her since I didn’t make a pie. Hers sounds like it’s a winner – a pumpkin ice-cream pie!