So the cold be damned, but says Pen, "Oh my goodness, it's frigid!"
Turns out that a lot of these sailors were descending on Titusville because a space shuttle launch was scheduled for 0415 Monday morning (actually it had been delayed from the same time Sunday morning). We had no idea a launch was scheduled, although I remarked to Pen when we were sailing on Friday and saw the launch towers: "Wouldn't it be something if there were a launch scheduled!" And it turns out we did! Omigod! What a sight against the night sky and crescent moon. And, oh, the noise----it rattled the deck! We were atop our neighbor's trawler watching from quite the vantage point. We felt so lucky to have stumbled on such an experience. Guess it's one of those serendipitous things. And to think if the alternator hadn't gone our we would have been much further down the coast instead of practically across from the launch pad. Talk about silver linings. It's the best kind of reminder that delays can actually deliver gifts to your cabin door. Oh yes, and the same guy who had such a terrible time docking sleepily made his way topside on his boat just minutes after the launch and asked if the shuttle was going up. Aren't we homo sapiens funny to watch?
But back to this friggin ass cold weather!! It's only warming up a tad and then getting colder. And I put most of my warm clothes back into storage because I didn't want to be hauling them around the islands for three or four months. Thank God I kept my long silk underwear, but I sure could use a pair of gloves and a watch cap. Yuk. Yuk. I'll suffer through it, but not quietly I assure you. I tend to cranky when I'm cold. Poor James.
Speaking of poor James, he's really poor, poor James, literally. The mechanic just called and said he's found the alternator but at the price of almost $800.00 not including labor! We were on the way back from the grocery when James got the call. You wouldn't believe the painful cries from a grown man. Thank God I was there to catch him when he almost fainted. Ahahaha! He seems to be doing fine now that the check is written and the promise made to install the alternator tomorrow morning, but I'll be watching him for signs of a relapse when the figure comes to his mind again and the money actually leaves his account.
Yep, the price tag seems a bit steep, but then it's a boat. It's so nice to have Pen around to catch me when I'm fainting from yet another repair bill. At least, we weren't in the islands, where getting parts can be time -consuming and really costly.
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