A Welcomed Rain

Today I finally got into the swing of being on a boat…in water. I put my indoor jobs on hold and got myself out on the deck to do some work. I finally shed the layer of clothes over my bathing suit and spent part of the day (re)sanding the hand rails and cleaning up the decks. It felt so good have the sun shining down, taking a swim when I got hot and seeing Mike get the windlass wired and working! And just this morning when I woke up I thought to myself “Blue skies again!”. At this point it would be so nice to wake up to gray skies and rain one morning (Seattle people, don’t hate me). Well, I didn’t get to wake up to it but in the late afternoon the clouds did start to roll in with thunder and lightening in the distance. And then the rain came. After we quickly closed the hatches and zipped up our spray hood, we took the opportunity to sit in our (mostly) dry cockpit, drink a beer and enjoy the first rain in over a month. And I think the pine trees enjoyed it as well because they gave off the most delicious sweet scent that filled the air for the rest of the evening. The clouds then helped give the sun a most spectacular setting to the west. And to the east the darkening skies and mist settling in the pine laden valleys behind the bay almost had us believing that we were in Alaska instead of Turkey.