We've been at the town wall in Cambridge for an eventful couple of days. The weather was predicted to deteriorate with the passage of the residuals of Hurricane Michael, and indeed it did. We ducked in here to free dock, tied to a concrete wall along with a couple of sailboats. Ate out last night and had fried oysters with bacon cheese and jalopenos, outstanding! Walked back to the boat 2 blocks in a downpour, which continued most of the night. Lots of wind as well, big blow with the switchover to the northwest as the front passed. Yesterday was in the 80's, today in the 60's (nice). Anyway, we got up this morning and all seemed well, except the back rest of one of the seat cushions Cindy had made for the flybridge was missing. It blew away. We both walked, ran, biked the harbor perimeter looking for it with no luck and Cindy was pretty down. This afternoon, she went back to the thrift shop where she picked up so many treasures yesterday and found some more. I went to the hardware store and found some treasures as well, then found a boatyard and got some spare parts I wanted. While riding my bike across the bridge back to the boat, I saw Cindy talking to a couple and by the time I arrived, I saw her carrying the missing seat cushion, a bit dirty but intact, with a smile on her face. The couple had seen it in a spot she had looked at not 10 minutes earlier. Not only that, but the Wild won last night!! We will pull out of here in the morning and start heading south. Looking at Tangier Island this weekend sometime, then a marina near the York River early next week to tour Jamestown, Yorktown and Williamsburg.
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View from the town wall tonight. A wooden mast on that boat. |
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the cushion |
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Sorting through thrift shop treasures |
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Wedding dresses, a mink cape and other stuff |
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