Step Away from the Peanuts

For a Monday, this one wasn’t so bad. We woke up with some of the same feelings as last night but decided to not let it get us down. Instead we spent some time cleaning up the boat which always seems to help. Once the clutter is put away we can see the boat again instead of the work pit it sometimes feels like. And what really helped was Ishmail delivering the new floors! We still have a long way to go until that project is complete but were able to replace the door and scraps of wood with a few panels of the new flooring. It’s beautiful and definitely a mood lifter! As for us, Mike worked on the electrical box and in the head…again. And I was able to get part of the starboard toe rail sanded. The days are definitely getting warmer (low to mid 80s) and the sun was shining bright today. I was outside most of the day working and once I got to the scaffolding to sand the outside of the rail, I found that I was pretty much done. Or maybe it was just an excuse to not to have to stand up there, not my favorite job. When our work came to an end, we enjoyed our beer and peanuts in the cockpit but this time looked at the nutrition label on the peanuts. No wonder it takes away our appetite! After 50+ grams of fat and the carbs in the beer, that’s a complete protein meal right there. So we restrained ourselves to just a handful or two (it’s surprisingly difficult), and enjoyed a repeat of beans for dinner since they were so good last night. And ended the evening with a very feel good movie, Invictus, which helped the day end on an even more promising note.