40 Days and 40 Nights...

Rain.  What?  We've only been home 5 days?  Are you sure?  By golly, you're right... it just seems like 40 days and 40 nights of rain.  Well, except today.  Warm, humid, and sunny this morning.

After breakfast out and some stocking up at Wally World, Joan asked, "When do you want to get the boat out?"

What I heard: "We should get the boat out right now!"

Decisions: I need to do an engine service.  On the outside chance, I called my dealer to see when they could get the boat in so I could wait for it.  The service manager said, "If you can have it here at 3:00 this afternoon, we'll get it in and out while you wait.  Shouldn't take more than an hour."

Frankly, that is better than me having to mess with it in the storage unit or driveway... did I mention: hot and humid?  The high today is supposed to be 89º with a "feels like" temperature of 99º.  The weather weasels through that "feels like" in there for the same reason their compadres up north like to talk about wind chill.  It's all about the misery.

We left home in the sunshine, heading for the storage unit.  In the sunshine.  About half way there, we could see rain shafts ahead.  It sprinkled for about 12 seconds, then the heavens rained down on us like a monsoon!

Another 30 seconds after I took that photo, it came down so hard that the wipers on full speed couldn't keep up with it.  Of course this is in an area that is prone to flooding.  10 minutes later, we drove out of it - the roads were dry and there was dust blowing(!?!).  Then, back into it again before we got to the storage unit.

Once inside the storage unit, we decided to wait until it let up before moving the coach so we could get at the boat.  The rain let up a bit, I pulled the coach out, and we prepped the boat for towing in the dry and protection of the storage unit.  We hooked up to the Honda inside.  When the rain let up even more, I pulled the boat out and put the coach back in.  Off to Tracker Marine Center.  A half hour early - they got us right in and started working on the boat before I even got the work order started.  These guys have been great to work with since we bought this boat from them 2 years ago.  Timing has a lot to do with it, and we knew they would be reasonably slow right now.

They said they'd have it ready in a hour, but would call us.  We did a bit of running that we needed to do, grabbed a sandwich, and the phone rang... 49 minutes after we dropped off the boat.  "Mr. Bathurst, we have your boat ready."

Another good service experience.

A few sprinkles as we left, but dry roads all the way home.  Sunny, hot, and humid when we pulled the boat into the driveway.

I need to get the dock lines and fenders at our dock ready.  A few things that need to go back on the boat.  Maybe tomorrow morning when it will be a bit cooler.  Well, a bit less hot.

Amazing how different the weather can be at the coast vs 30 miles inland.  We weren't intending to bring the boat in, but this timing worked.  Now, we can get it back in the water at our leisure.

And, on another front, I got an e-mail today from the guy who runs Emerald Guitars in Ireland: "Your guitar has left the building."  :-)