We're Back!!

It took me a few days to figure out how to sign in to this blog. Couldn't remember the passwords, user name etc.
I think I'll write them in the back cover of the logbook.

Anyway it's great to be back. And it's really nice not to be getting kicked out of the house every few hours for yet another showing or open house.

For a while there, last week it looked like we wouldn't be coming up at all. Last Thursday I pulled the boat out of the shelter and parked it in the driveway only to find a puddle of oil under the I/O a little while later (around 4:30 PM). We were supposed to be leaving the next morning. The oil was coming from a cracked hose which runs from the oil reservoir to deep inside the stern drive. Very hard to see, looked impossible to replace.

I had a marine mechanic come over to look at it. He said the entire drive unit had to come off to replace the hose and it would probably need some other parts, so 3 to 4 days at best. After being totally bummed out for about an hour, I decided to see what I could do. Removing the drive was out of the question so I started trying to remove the offending hose from a fitting that was WAY up in there. Before it was dark, with the help of a hooked piece of coat hanger wire, a long razor knife and a long thin screwdriver, I had managed to splice in a new piece of hose. It's a temporary fix but should get me through the season.

The next morning after packing the truck and before we could leave we had to make the house spotless for several open houses on the weekend. Then just as we were about to leave I remembered the dog had crapped in a spot which would surely get stepped on. On my way to the yard shed for a shovel, I saw that the raccoons had gotten into the BBQ and had spread black greasy crap all over the newly painted deck.

We finally arrived at the cottage around 5 o'clock, which is not so bad because that is when the bar opens.

Weather has been fantastic. It's supposed to get windy this afternoon and cooler for the next few days.