Murphy, the Irish Terrier, wishes everyone a Happy St Pat's on his favorite day of the year (next to Christmas). This afternoon the crew is headed over to Duffy's for Shepherd's Pie and Irish Brew. Unfortunately, Capt. Murphy will be stuck guarding the ship.
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It's been a quiet week doing a little of this and a little of that. Monday was plucking day for Murphy. People at the marina wondered what we did with our last dog and where we had found this new racy model. Wish a little plucking were all we needed to be lean machines!
Tuesday we took a tour of Stuart on one of their little golf cart/trains. Joanne, our fearless tour guide, arranged the tour for a group of about 10 from the marina. However, we didn't vet the guide and when he asked if we were in a hurry, we shouldn't have been so quick to say no. Two hours later, we had toured not only the historic part of Stuart, which was great, the huge waterfront homes, which was interesting, and the trash compactor at the hospital, which was weird! You just never know.
Another day we shared dinner with Eric and Ellen on their trawler West Wind. She fixed a pork roast with apples and onions. The roast was great and the apples and onions sounded strange but what a tasty combination. E&E hail from Nova Scotia and his parents/grandparents/etc/etc were lobstermen. Ellen had never been on the water until she met Eric and he took her down that slippery slope. Being on a trawler makes us small boat sailors a little jealous. They didn't go as far as having recliners, but they did have a real loveseat and chairs. Our narrow settees get a little, well narrow, after many weeks.
Yesterday and today we are spending hunkered down on the boat. I'm doing lots of knitting and Jim is having a regular movie-fest. If you've looked at the Florida weather map, you will see that the entire state is covered in the greens to reds of steady rain. We were really lucky yesterday, as the Vero Beach area was slammed with some pretty wild storms, including tornadoes. All we have had is rain, though Murphy is decidedly uneasy. I think he can hear or sense the far-off storms.
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Stay dry!
The weather is pretty nice now, still a little cool, but sunny and the winds have laid a bit. On Saturday, Dave and Joanne from Tropical Breeze,convinced us that we needed to ride the marina bikes to the main shopping area. It's along the heavily traveled Route 1 and I hate to say it but I've not ridden a bike in 25 years, so I was more than dubious about this adventure. How'd those 25 years get by?!?! However, afraid to miss any good shopping, I threw caution to the wind and joined the ride. It wasn't pretty. The physical exertion part was easy.....it's completely flat here. My balance on a bike was not. They say you never forget. Ha. We did about a 5 mile ride and on the way back, I fell off the bike, caught my pedal on a high curbing and almost crashed, and hit a guard wall along a bridge and left a blue streak from my jeans. There was no real damage, except to my pride (and there's little of that anymore). Dave was riding behind me and was kind enough not to laugh too hard. Jim, left me in the dust as usual and expressed surprise when he heard about all of my crash and near-crashes.....yeah right. It was an adventure.....and I blame the free marina bike.....it had a wobbly rear wheel and loose steering ;-)
Today was a nice lazy Sunday day. We took a leisurely walk into Stuart for the Farmer's Market. No bikes for me today.....I don't have that many pairs of jeans to sacrifice. The market was small, but I still scored some fresh new potatoes and beautiful strawberries. Dave and Joanne went for Cajun boiled peanuts. The only one in the Bearden family that liked them was Murphy and as everyone knows, he'll eat most anything. In the afternoon we returned for a free jazz concert and ice cream. We had these $1 off coupons burning holes in our pockets and couldn't let them go to waste.
We finished the day back on the boat sipping wine and listening to more jazz from a nearby restaurant. Nice day all around.
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