Hanging Day at Skull Creek went well. A fifty-five pound mirror with a wide wood frame was the most difficult. Carol and I had mounted it in Evanston and knew what to expect.
There is a lot of New Zealand on our walls. You may recognize the view from the lookout on Roberton Island above taken by my friend, Rob. There is also a landscape watercolor that I bought at a gallery in Opua and a chart of the country. Enough to cause one to think that I like the place.
The two kerosene lamps are the last vestiges of THE HAWKE OF TUONELA.
THE WASPS is a play by Aristophanes which I read a very long time ago and what I found when I opened GANNET’s dock box yesterday. I biked down to the little boat to stow the Torqeedo properly. It was so hot inside the cabin when we returned from our morning sail the day before that I left it on the cabin sole. After moving the outboard to its normal stowage position at the foot of the port pipe berth, I went to look for gear stored in the dock box. When I opened the lid I was greeted by a couple of dozen wasps who were not happy to see me. They had built a nest on the underside of the lid. I retreated for the boat hook and dislodged the white honeycombed nest about the size of my fist. This did not improve their mood, which became even worse when I turned the hose on them until finally they buzzed away. I hope this does not become an ongoing battle.
Tropical storm Danny made landfall several days ago five miles northeast of where I am sitting. In this hemisphere, the east side of a storm is the more dangerous, but Danny didn’t do any damage anywhere. Storms are named when they reach Force 8, gale force, starting at 34 knots. As I have said before I consider this a mistake. Such a storm is nothing more than a bit of unpleasant weather.
So still early in the season and another storm, Elsa, is headed our way. If you connect the dots between 2 AM Wednesday and 2 AM Thursday, her center will pass directly over me. Carol flies back to Chicago on Monday. You will also note that while Elsa is now a Category 1 hurricane, she is expected to weaken over Cuba and be only a tropical storm when she reaches my friends in Florida. A GRIB I just downloaded indicates that she will not be significant, but there is always the uncertainty of rapid intensification, a phenomenon seen increasingly in recent years.
I am not quite ready for a severe hurricane, but I can be in a few hours of hauling supplies up from GANNET. I expect that Elsa will not even require me to to bring in the deck furniture, but sadly the world does not always live up to my expectations.
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