On the way home for lunch, we stopped by Fred's discount store and paid 6.95 for a toaster. A small purchase is going to make a great big happy difference in the joy factor around here. Breakfast just isn't breakfast without ... toast! Indifferent bread is made better than tolerable by toasting! Our next trip to the grocery store will be for Thomas's english muffins.  I was describing how you can do the total microwave breakfast thing (scrambled eggs, bacon) to my daughter, and she said that it sounded like when she was tree planting.  She's way ahead of me in the motel tolerance factor. Youth. It helps. 

Work progresses really well. The booms have four coats of varnish so far, the cabintop has been prepped and painted - a nice light tan, giving a bit more contrast than the off-white - and inside, more paint inside of drawers and lockers. Fresh and clean. 

Cabin sides are prepped and painted nice bright white, Randy is working on the eyebrow, and I'm in the process of scraping and sanding the companionway doors. I can sit in the sunshine, with hoodie or without depending on the temp, and scrape and whittle away. Varnishing this afternoon. 

The yard is really busy, boats shifting from the storage yard to the work yard and lots going in the water this week. We're set up for next week to haul the masts and get to work on the big sticks. Randy brought spruce boards from home for the mizzen repair, and there will be enough left over to rebuild the control box in the cockpit. 

We have a long list of stuff to do, but plan to be here for another three weeks, so all is on schedule. You really don't want to be living in a motel longer than that, and you certainly don't want to be living on a boat on the hard. Squalor will take over and you accumulate ugly microwaveable plates and bowls and other cheap dollar store stuff to eat and drink out of and before you know it, people are posting pictures of your crap on the internet. See below for our view from starboard. Our Russian neighbours ... and their stuff extends well beyond what we see. There's even a candelabra! 

But we have a toaster.