Thursday, 28 March 2019 - With rain in the forecast, I made two trips to get a new zipper put into the cover for the Honda auxiliary generator, then for groceries, since I was so close to Publix, the grocery store. When I returned, I installed the new LED lights on the bow.

Friday, 29 March - I went over to the Hurricane lounge for the SSCA luncheon at 11:45, then to the tiki hut at the marina for a Happy Hour Pot Luck even though I wasn't hungry at first. It's always nice to meet new boaters and BS with established friends.

Saturday, 30 March - I got up early and caught the bus to Key West to see an air show featuring the men's and women's national champion aerobatic fliers and the Blue Angels at NAS Key West. I hope the pictures linked at the bottom of this page do the show justice, but if you wonder why the truck is included...it's a jet truck with three jet engines. During the show it raced an airplane from a standing start that came in overhead at about 150 mph, then blew past the plane like it was standing still. The truck hit about 344 mph in seconds. It does zero to a hundred mph in 1.9 sec. It's called the Shockwave Jet Truck in case you care to Google it.
                    Last week I arrived at the bus stop to return to Marathon only about 3 minutes before the bus arrived. Today I was cutting it even closer...in fact, I thought there was a good chance I might have to wait an hour and a half for the next bus since, due to the timing of the end of the Blue Angels performance, I was running about 12 minutes late. Luckily, the bus was running about 13 minutes late...almost perfect timing following a great show.

Sunday, 31 March - I led four more kayakers on another adventure into Boot Key mangrove trails today, then returned to the boat and removed dodger from the front of the bimini. The dodger is a fabric wind break with large vinyl windows that wraps around the bimini. The windows have large zippers that allow them to be opened and rolled up, but the threads attaching the zippers had cut the vinyl so that a little wind and, worse, rain and salt water could come into the cockpit. Now is a good time to get the dodger repaired, but it won't be cheap. Later, Jeanne and Frank, boaters on M/V Island Girl, a forty foot trawler, invited me over for dinner. They were two of the kayakers on the mangrove trip today. We had a great dinner as we watched the sunset from their fly bridge.

Monday, 1 April - I started the day of by listening to the Cruiser's net on the VHF radio, as usual, then took the dodger to be repaired. Once that was done, I headed over to Bob Dahmer's boat to help him climb his mast to replace a couple of light bulbs and do a little rewiring. He's recently gotten three solar panels and replaced the canvas bimini top on his boat with the solar panels. It looks great and he's super pleased with the abundance of electricity he has for charging his batteries and running everything onboard.

Tuesday, 2 April - I was off to Key West again today on a follow-up to the lab work that was done last week. Luckily, it's just for an "almost" annual health checkup. I am, however, still a little concerned with how much the scar on my back itches and burns from having the biopsy done about a year and a half ago.
                    Well, the doctor today, my prime physician, said he didn't believe the scar is anything to be concerned with, but did point out that my lab tests show that, at least on the day I had the blood drawn, my potassium level was too high, so I need to return to Key West, to have the test run again o Thursday to see if it still is high. I guess I'd better not eat any bananas for the next two days.

Wednesday, 3 April - I'm hoping my dodger for the cockpit gets finished in time for me to install it today since there is about a forty percent chance of rain this evening.