Coffee Anyone?

Not much to report on for the past week. we've been staying hooked up to the umbilical cord at Legacy to keep Tourist and us nice and warm. Temps haven't gotten above the mid 60's for some time down here with cloudy and windy conditions to go with it. I'm not whining cause I know it's still warmer than back home but it is unusual for this time of year in Florida. Even boats coming back from the Bahamas are reporting cool weather.
We faced a dilema head on recently on board Tourist, however fate worked to our favor. The last day of Frank & Pegs visit with us the coffee maker quit drawing the water out of the reservoir. Being the handy guy that I am I decided to have a look at the contraption and see if I could fix it. Well, after studying it for a couple days and Pam buying a $20.00 Mr. Coffee (apparently she has no faith in my abilities!) I finally got it out of it's mounting only to find that it had one screw in the back holding it together. Of course the screw was like nothing I have ever seen before and required a special tool to remove it. Since I didn't have the tool I took it down the dock to Donnie on Caseys Choice who seems to have a floating workshop. He too did not have the specific tool so we made the joint decision to drill the head off of the screw and pull it apart. Like magic the screw head was gone and the guts of the beast were laid open for inspection! Just then Donnies wife Marilyn came up to check on us and upon looking at the now dismembered machine said "That's just like the one we gave to the marina 4 years ago". Hold the phone! Lets see if it's still there. So off went Pam & Marilyn and sure enough, back they come with the coffee maker which looked to be in better shape than ours.

After a slight height modification the new(old) coffee maker was installed and the Mr. Coffee taken up to the marina as a replacement. The old unit was dispatched to the Legacy dumpster except for the carafe which Pam insisted we keep since we have a habit of breaking them!
On another topic; How about that Olympic Curling? It doesn't get more exciting than that. Arteries harden faster than the speed at which that sport is played.