As for cooking, it is Sunday. For those who know us...that means brunch of crepes and Champagne. Every Sunday. Everyone in town is welcome. Just call. :) That is the way it always is here. Amazingly the only additional guest (plus the crew) was a swallow. It looked like one at least, but how it made it all the way out here tells me my aviary identification prowess is lacking. Anyhow, thank you to Jess O for the great Champagne. Since we didn't drink it at the Hopping the Pond party, we drank it today. Our second Sunday underway, we'll pass 1K miles...thought that will be tomorrow's post. If you haven't figured out I am running posts about 1000-1000 for the 24 hour periods. Just the easiest for me. As for the perfect loaf: I make a loaf of bread every other day out here for sandwiches. This is the first perfect one. I almost don't want to eat it. Can we bronze it and put it in a bakery museum? We took a picture for posterity as it may never happen again. It will disappear at lunch tomorrow. I think lunch today is left-over crepes...brunch extended. That tends to occur on Sunday.
You know the garden gnome from Travelocity ads? Well, one crew member spent a week sleeping in the cockpit due to some aversion to rolling waves and enclosed spaces. Who knew. Anyhow, with the sweet, mature nature typical of sailors we nicknamed her. Everything from the bag lady...covered in blankets and looking so sad at first that your heart went out to her...to the cockpit version of the garden gnome. They just sit there. She took it all in stride and is now up and happy. :D Though, in another fine sailing tradition, she will never hear the end of it. We may let off occasionally, but, at the most inopportune times, it will be remembered. I can't pick on her too much though. She is the one washing dishes for which I am eternally grateful.
For those of you who aren't here and are saying "Bah...I should have gone. I could have done better.", I give you the following to try. If you can do it without getting sick, maybe we will invite you along as crew in the future.
Items required:
Bathtub full of ice cold salt water.
Silk longjohns.
Foul weather gear. (not just your camping jacket...but ones that cover your face and get oppressive in the heat)
A kitchen sink on one end of a teeter-totter; A two-year old strapped to the other.
A mechanical bull.
Two pieces of wooden sheeting stapled to the sides of the teeter-totter creating a small corridor.
Six people worth of dirty dishes.
A diesel engine with a generator and a small hydraulic system with the intended purpose of stabilizing the teeter-totter. (make sure the servo is just one size too small to complete the job.)
Once you have attached the servo to the teeter-totter, add the sink and kids to opposite ends draw a 3 foot circle around each in chalk. Place the engine and generator where you can only reach them by stepping off the teeter-totter to the mechanical bull and sitting there. Ensure that enough of each are in the bathtub to give you a constant dousing. Make sure there is a pressure switch on the bull so that as soon as you put any weight on it, it turns on. Place the dishes by the two-year old where he can scatter them randomly. The goal is to do the dishes while repairing the engine (requiring you to read the manual) and making sure no dishes go overboard (outside the circle on either end). Stay here for 48 hours while attempting to cook meals, eat, sleep and randomly fix anything that breaks...something will.
Once complete with this exercise, post a comment and let me know how it went. I won't be able to read them until we are in Hawaii, but this could be entertaining. Oh, and I forgot. When it feels cold put on the foul weather gear and turn on a heater. Once you feel hot, take off the foul weather get and immediately turn on the A/C as high as you can.
Until then...
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