Gear, wine and grinding

Forgot to mention that I was surprised to find the man of the house rigging longline gear (at least it was new) in the utility room while wearing my..... clogs when I arrived home yesterday. Guess it's better than finding him in my dress but it startled me. "Better traction for stepping on gangions with these" he says. My nerves. The cats have been providing a diversion if not assistance by jumping into and out of the hole made in the middle of the coil of rope, chewing on the tuna leader line which serves as gangions, attempting to make off with the groundline (rope) in the teeth and leaping into the mound of gear waiting to be coiled. As the prodigal son reported when he got up to go lobstering this morning he thought he would have to 'shack the cats off the trawl' as they were hanging out of it in what looked like a major snarl.

Combine this with the fact that the utility room smells like an Emergency Room on Saturday night after the bars have closed and the cabs have dropped off those who fell off their bar stools or were involved in altercations at some point during the evening but didn't want to leave. Why? Because the gear rigger is also a master vintner who set a wine kit on Thursday and boy is it ever starting to work - every once in a while the pressure must build up under the cover and it 'burps' out a real strong yeasty aroma. All this after putting in time doing grinding and demolition on the boat being prepared for the retrofit - Tuesday is the day for 'steaming her around to the boat shop' so most of the stripping out has to be done by then. Man of many talents.

One day down and a road trip to go. Spent today getting ready to head out to our exotic island vacation - hard to argue with that description of Cape Breton if you've ever spent time there. You also know that technology has arrived to rural Nova Scotia when you can Google Guy's Frenchy's to find locations and check on the hours of operation. So, it will be a few days before you get to hear all the details of the mother and daughter travels.

For those of you NOT in Saskatchewan... tonight is the date to change the clocks - spring ahead and fall back - although it's three weeks earlier than usual this year. Can't imagine this body will want to get up any earlier to go to work! OK, do not think of that - you're on vacation, you're on vacation.