Rhapsodies

Well I woke up feeling a tired with a headache but feeling confident that this would be the last of it as the CPAP cord was on it’s way. Coffee was welcome and appreciated.  we had bacon, frittatas and toast with blueberry preserves for breakfast.

From there my cousin, Boyd, and I went to the harbor to get his sailboat ready. My mother went with his wife, Faith, daughter Nicole and a friend to run some errands in downtown Portland.

The last time I’d seen the boat it was in the shop being very much a work in progress. Now it’s ready for ocean travel, barring a few of Boyd’s projects. The cabin is amazingly spacious, with a roof just high enough to keep me from bumping on it. We chilled for about a half hour, talking. The most interesting thing being how Ospreys can be a pest. In this case by perching on the top of the mast and destroying weather equipment. We then drove the boat over to the dock to pick up my mother and Faith.

From there it was an entertaining couple of hours doing circles around the bay. Lunch was phillies with potato chips and I started my new sketchbook with a picture of everybody.

When we returned to dock my mother went went with Faith to pick up the girls in Portland and I stayed to help Boyd with the mooring. (Boyd moored the Sailboat, I waited at the dock)

While waiting at the docks I watched some kids fish, watched a police dog named Greta train to find pot and saw an egret.

Afterwards we went to a Mexican Restaurant where we were joined by my other cousin, Ted.

We got home in a roundabout way. Mom wanted to avoid the usual congestion around Wiscasset and took a backroad.

Unfortunately my replacement CPAP cord hadn’t come yet and since the darling center office is closed on the weekend I’ll have to suffer subpar sleep until Monday.