Saturday June 20

My seat has been permanently taken

 Sunny, warm and windy this morning.  Off to shore for Ruby's constitutional and a run.  More sheep activity but no interest from Ruby this morning.  The Squeaky Ball has her attention and the sheep are but a distant memory.  So much for instinct!

A performance this morning of epic proportion while getting the stern line back to the boat and the anchor raised.  The new switch which was installed on the bridge to allow Mike or I to raise the anchor from the bridge versus going down to the bow, failed.  So, someone other than Mike had to go to shore to untie the stern line so we could raise the anchor, guess what, there was only "I" to do this job.  Off I go, flip flops on, to scale the rocks, untie the stern line while making sure the dinghy didn't float away! Time to go back to working out.....got the stern line unhooked, dinghy back to boat safely with me in and all the stern line piled up on the back deck and then to stand on the bow to lift the anchor via foot pedal.  Whew....that was a work out and a half.  All this while, Mike is holding the boat off the rocks in the wind and 2 foot chop.

Beautiful Red Dragonfly

Next time we go to a dock first!  Safe and sound on the dock at Pender, wash the boat, water up, install new generator board and go to Maderia Park to see if they have any squeaky balls for Ruby!

Wildlife Seen Today - Herd of wild sheep! rather large red dragon fly....what a beaut!  :)