Belated Happy Easter

Hope everyone had a great Easter! Mine was somewhat lazy as I watched non-stop reruns of NCIS and also found time to observe Pam preparing our traditional boat holiday meal of Cornish hens. Once again as we did for Thanksgiving, we dined with our stand in family, Bill & Mary. Dinner of course had to wait on docktails which had the twist of a birthday celebration for Donnie & Marilyn's dog Chloe.

Happy Easter!

I mentioned in the last post about our trim ring saga and the inability to get the correct item from the local Marine Max dealer. Well guess what? It continues. The latest installment had the ring come in that was ordered and again it was the wrong one. Now the parts guy's attitude isn't quite so non-chalant. He looks at the computer again. Tells me that the item we received is the part number for our boat and I tell him it can't be and take him outside to show him a boat that has the same ring on it as Tourist. Back to the office, a call to the parts guy in Naples who tells him he's had the same problem but offers no solution. Finally a call to Sea Ray but of course since it's Good Friday the plant is closed! Grrrrr! Apologies follow with a promise to get back to me on Monday once he can contact the factory. And so it goes......

In other news our computer has been acting up for the last while so we took it in to a local fix it shop where they wiped it clean. Of course that meant we have to go back in and restore the programs we want. For you computer geeks out there that's probably not a big deal. For a guy that can barely read or write it's an event!
Let's just say that I liked the old days before any of this technology came along.

The winds were blowing for several days here in  Ft. Myers so we decided to take a ride to Goodland, Fl. to Stan's where every Sunday is a party. The place was packed with people from all walks of life. I have to say however that I haven't seen that much wrinkled skin in one place EVER! With a few exceptions we were some of the youngest people there. And I'm getting up there!
Age aside, it was a blast. The music was up tempo and good. The burgers OK and the booze was flowing.

The crowd at Stan's

Live model from Stan's junk shop.

Lunch @ Stan's

The band is as old as the crowd but good!

One of the benefits of living next to High Point Towers is that occasionally the tenants take pity on us poor boaters and invite us up for dinner. Such was the case recently when we were the guests of Marty & Yvonne. Thanks guys. It was tasty!

Plenty of treats before dinner.

One of the odd occurrences at the marina of late was the invasion of bees that targeted M/V Changer.

Bees on the boat.

The queen set up shop on the name board and started entertaining her entourage. Doug & Michelle lasted two days before calling in the bee buster to remove them. His target is the queen. Once removed the others disperse to find a new party.

Bee buster preparing to rid the boat of their unwanted pets.

Temps have been slowly climbing back into the low 80's after a cooler than normal March. We'll be heading back onto the water this week to snoop around parts of Florida's west coast. Stay tuned.