After Wally’s family gathered to celebrate Grandmother June’s 96th birthday, it was time to start the shut-down process for our cabin up on the knoll and the lakeside camp. It seems to take only a few days to open up our Maine cottages in the spring, but weeks to shut them down in the fall! Why is that? The Ellis family is loving OronoMaine (always spoken as one word), so we can rest easy knowing that. It’s time to resume our life on the water.
Our new home is Brunswick, Georgia. Dating back to the turn of the century, the Old Town is bustling with activity as Ben Affleck’ s upcoming movie Live by Night is about to be filmed. Set in Ybor City of Tampa, Florida in the 1930’s, the movie will be have the iconic backdrop of the Cuban community re-created in the heart of downtown Brunswick. It’s quite a sight to behold.
Situated near Georgia’s southern border, the Brunswick Landing Marina is sold out as mariners await the official end of hurricane season. To make it more attractive for the boat owners on 15 docks to mingle, the marina provides free adult beverages at the Mon.-Wed.-Fri. 5pm Cocktail Hour at the Yacht Club. Most participants arrive with finger food to share, making it even more fun to linger for more than an hour!
Some insurance policies permit re-entry into Florida waters as of Nov. 1st, others as of Nov. 15th. Ours is the latter.
We have always spent Thanksgiving with Erin and Brett and their growing family, so this year the tradition continues. Around Nov. 14th we’ll begin the drive back to Maine. We have elected to participate in the Community Thanksgiving Dinner sponsored by my brother Kevin and his right-hand gal Cheryl. Their Quad County Snowmobile Club in Springfield, near our lake, provides a welcoming family atmosphere for everyone to gather together and be thankful...with the food for the meal donated and labor provided by club members. The six of us will stay at the cabin for a few days, carrying in our drinking water and heating with the split wood that we stacked in our woodshed. The temps have already dropped below freezing... so it will be an adventure!
Now that we are back on our trawler “Summertime”, we have resumed the upgrading and cleaning routine that seems to take over all cruisers’ daily existence. All around us are boat owner’s busily spiffing up their boats, getting ready for the winter cruising season. We aren’t as “quick and fast” as we used to be, but we’ve made peace with that. Having a car allows for a leisurely work schedule. We can now complete the numerous trips to local stores to get the necessary bits and pieces to complete the on-going projects. We have already replaced the winch that lifts the dinghy, the windless that lifts the anchor, the electronics...GPS and RADAR... that guide us in navigation and the old DVD player with a new one with DVD/ Blu-ray capabilities. Threading new cables (to run all that new equipment) through the inconspicuous slots in the boat has proven to be tricky. It’s also a job that involves patience, a good sense of humor and two sets of hands, one pushing and one pulling!
We already have a list of items that can come off the boat and items that we need that are back at our cabin. We have ordered new wall-hugging LaZboy recliners for comfortable seating in “Summertime’s” salon; the one’s we presently sit in will go to the cabin to be refurbished in the future. The trip back to Maine also gives Darcy a chance to touch base with her rheumatologist and discuss with him how to proceed with the Prednisone-reduction regimen. Every day of pain-free mobility is surely a blessed gift!
Situated near Georgia’s southern border, the Brunswick Landing Marina is sold out as mariners await the official end of hurricane season. To make it more attractive for the boat owners on 15 docks to mingle, the marina provides free adult beverages at the Mon.-Wed.-Fri. 5pm Cocktail Hour at the Yacht Club. Most participants arrive with finger food to share, making it even more fun to linger for more than an hour! 
Some insurance policies permit re-entry into Florida waters as of Nov. 1st, others as of Nov. 15th. Ours is the latter.
We have always spent Thanksgiving with Erin and Brett and their growing family, so this year the tradition continues. Around Nov. 14th we’ll begin the drive back to Maine. We have elected to participate in the Community Thanksgiving Dinner sponsored by my brother Kevin and his right-hand gal Cheryl. Their Quad County Snowmobile Club in Springfield, near our lake, provides a welcoming family atmosphere for everyone to gather together and be thankful...with the food for the meal donated and labor provided by club members. The six of us will stay at the cabin for a few days, carrying in our drinking water and heating with the split wood that we stacked in our woodshed. The temps have already dropped below freezing... so it will be an adventure!
Now that we are back on our trawler “Summertime”, we have resumed the upgrading and cleaning routine that seems to take over all cruisers’ daily existence. All around us are boat owner’s busily spiffing up their boats, getting ready for the winter cruising season. We aren’t as “quick and fast” as we used to be, but we’ve made peace with that. Having a car allows for a leisurely work schedule. We can now complete the numerous trips to local stores to get the necessary bits and pieces to complete the on-going projects. We have already replaced the winch that lifts the dinghy, the windless that lifts the anchor, the electronics...GPS and RADAR... that guide us in navigation and the old DVD player with a new one with DVD/ Blu-ray capabilities. Threading new cables (to run all that new equipment) through the inconspicuous slots in the boat has proven to be tricky. It’s also a job that involves patience, a good sense of humor and two sets of hands, one pushing and one pulling!
We already have a list of items that can come off the boat and items that we need that are back at our cabin. We have ordered new wall-hugging LaZboy recliners for comfortable seating in “Summertime’s” salon; the one’s we presently sit in will go to the cabin to be refurbished in the future. The trip back to Maine also gives Darcy a chance to touch base with her rheumatologist and discuss with him how to proceed with the Prednisone-reduction regimen. Every day of pain-free mobility is surely a blessed gift!
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