On Thursday, after 2 days of putting
things away and cleaning up 9 months of storage dust, it was time for
Guppy to go into the water. Steve had spent most of Wednesday
polishing and waxing the sides of the boat as it's just too hard to
do once the boat is in the water. What a not fun job …..
The weather cooperated on Thursday with
bright sunny skies and warm temperatures – we were definitely ready
to be on the water! And it only took 3 trips on the bikes to move out
of the motel room.
It was a short 10 minute boat ride to
the Fenelon Falls lock – the engine ran well after some trying
starts (I installed an electronic ignition to replace the points in
the distributor but after the 3rd phone call and trying 3
different fixes, the points went back in!). We'll try the electronic
ignition another day to see if we can figure out what is the problem.
We felt like we were home :-)
First thing on the agenda was a road
trip to Peter and Cheryl's home. They live a short 2 hours from here
near Midland on Georgian Bay. The plan is to join them for a trip on
the Bay. Deja Vu should be in the water in a few weeks which is about
the time we'll arrive by boat.
Guppy was left for the night as the only boat docked at the lock yesterday but when we arrived back today there were another half dozen boats - even though it had rained much of the day.
Peter and Cheryl's grandson Jacob kindly gave up his
room for us for the night. Thanks, Jacob!! Steve loved his pet which
lives in the room: a spotted lemon gecko. Personally I was fine with
just taking the picture – looked too much like the iguana's in
Florida for my taste :-)
We had a great time seeing Peter and Cheryl again
and enjoyed dinner with both Peter's mom, Lorna, and Cheryl's mom,
Lois (we first met Lois when we traveled for a few days with Deja Vu
last fall), as well as one of their sons, Craig, and his family. Cheryl
made a great vegetarian spaghetti and sent us packing with leftovers
to boot!
They also loaned us a small generator
to try out. It's been an ongoing debate as to whether or not we
really need one. Spending the $900 forone was definitely not something
we were anxious to do if we ended up finding it just wasn't that
helpful to have. So this was perfect – try it and make a decision.
Of course the first thing Steve wanted to do was to have a toaster
oven since Guppy has only a 2 burner cooktop. But if he can make his
spinach lasagna who am I to complain!
He knew right in Orillia (on our way
back to the boat) where to find a Goodwill store and there was a
choice of 3 toaster ovens For $10.01 how could we go wrong?
Becky arrives from LA tomorrow night –
let the adventure begin :-)
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