Monday March 25: Flower Guy and a Change in Weather

As you can see (click on the arrow in the lower left and turn your computer volume on), flower guy has healed well! Thanks to all who expressed concerns - especially my nephew Matt who offered to get another one if Steve wasn't able to fix the bumble bee stem (not sure where he saw them but the picture he included in his email showed it definitely must have been a cousin or some close relative of flower guy as he was exactly the same except for the color of his pot!). How nice, Matt :-)  Thanks!!

There was not enough sun today for flower guy to actually dance so Steve put him in the spotlight of a flashlight :-)

Meanwhile, things are starting to wind down here at Banana Bay. Most folks are getting ready to travel - some to the Bahamas, some up the west coast of Florida, some to continue their journey on the Great Loop, and some (like us) up the east coast of Florida. A few will spend the summer here as well - too hot for us though.

It was a hot dog roast on the beach with much food shared and fun cooking hot dogs over an open fire. It's been a long time since we cooked over an open flame that wasn't a gas grill :-)

Of course, we were eating veggie dogs - amazing how good they were grilled. Good thing Dave and Joyce shared that knowledge with us.

Ice cream for dessert was provided by several of the boats as well as home-made hot fudge topping by Nancy on Jenna Star.

The sunset was nice but you can see the haze coming in to block the green flash. South wind = too much haze.

It's been in the 80's and humid for the last couple of days so we've just kind of hid in the boat with the air conditioner running and getting inside work done.


And then there's today. The wind and rain started sometime last night with a thunderstorm and north winds.

It's definitely cooled off! Steve spent an hour or so this morning putting a new zinc on the propeller shaft and scraping the bottom of the boat. There is definitely a downside to just sitting in one place for long periods of time and growth on the bottom of the boat is one.

What a change one day makes! It's now just plain nasty out with 20 mph winds (with gust of 25 mph) and rain. But it's still pretty neat - we'll be rocked to sleep tonight for sure!! The north winds are supposed to continue for the next few days and hopefully it won't rain ALL day tomorrow :-)

The good thing about a cool day? Steve is motivated to make pizza for dinner! The oven really heats this place up and on a day that is already hot and humid the last thing we need to do is make something in the oven!

It was GREAT as always. He's done quite a bit of experimenting with the dough for the crust and pretty much has it down at this point.

No worries - the 'cheese' is a veggie concoction that has no dairy :-)

Even on a night like this the sunset is spectacular ... as long as the camera can be steadied in the wind long enough to take the picture!

Again, no green flash but we are ever hopeful that it will be tomorrow night :-)