I dove in today with scrapers in hand and found that it was amazing this boat moved at all when we left Barra. The bottom was a giant mass of growth. Hundreds of pounds of fist sized plants, quite beautiful actually, had attached themselves to our fifteen or so year-old bottom paint. Wish I knew what kind of paint it was, I’d Tweet a complaint to the company. I mean really.

Fortunately I’d bought the biggest scraper to be had at Home Depot, unfortunately my in-laws weren’t able to find our snorkel gear stashed away somewhere at their cabin, leaving me with an ill-fitting mask and snorkel and no fins at all. Scraping a boat this size sans fins is quite an undertaking I must say. While down there I also found that one of the two big nuts on the prop was loose. It would have been the locking nut I suppose, and there is a pin in place behind that, but I was still glad to make that discovery and get it tightened back up.

We spent the rest of the day on the boat because of a big swell that had come up overnight making the beach landing a bit hairy. Actually I went in alone just to drop some garbage off and do a little hand laundry. Nothing but kid’s pajamas in the laundry and kid’s diapers in the garbage. This is our life.

Ali spent her day more or less trying to pacify Lowe. He’s been on the fussy side lately with his teeth coming in and although they are through now there hasn’t been much of a reprieve. Hard days that leave both of us longing for nightfall.

About six months ago Ouest fell and hit her mouth causing her tooth to go dark gray. We went to the dentist who recommended seeing a specialist for a root canal. No thanks. Bum friends unanimously said do nothing and sometimes they come back. Well, we’re getting close, it looks a ton better than it did just a couple of months back.