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Date:Tue, 14 Nov 2023 00:46:30 GMT
Good Friends and Good Food
Having company over to the boat
Well, today we spent the entire day getting ready for friends to come over.
Hannah and I went shopping, Sam worked on the outside of the boat and the stainless. Wanda
did the floors, I put things away and helped Hannah in the Galley and in about 4 hours we had the
boat looking presentable once again. It is so easy for a boat to fall apart when
you are living on it day to day. It's a small space and it can get messy really quick.
One of our biggest challenges was laundry. It is been rainy and misty for a couple days
and nothing was drying. Our second big challenge was gettin the dinner prepared. We
went shopping at 10:30 and didn't get home till about 13:00 so we only had 2 hours to
prepare the meal and put everything away that we bought. Because of course we couldn't just
shop for one day we had to shop for the next week or so as it is difficiult to get to the
store when you have to get rides. And naturally, we couldn't pick something easy like
chilli mac, it had to be something nice and it required quiet a bit of prep. However,
amazingly it came off without a hitch and the fish went in the oven about 15 minutes after
they arrived so we had dinner on the table by 16:30! Hannah is a master in the galley and
can do amazing things in limited space. She is so organized and everything in that
galley has a very particular home with the most used items in the easiest locations and thing
things less used in deeper hidden spaces. There are galley tools that came out of every
where that I didn't even know we had!
One of my Highschool buddies from 45 years ago or so came to visit us and Hannah made
a dinner of Sword fish, rice, fresh green beens and key lime pie. We
had a few drinks and ate a wonderful dinner together and talked about
boats and politics and memories and everything. It was a wonderful time and it
reminded us how much we like entertaining on the boat. He and his wonderful wife
were a welcome diversion from working on the boat. I wish we could have spent more
time with them but perhaps in the future. They are considering buying a boat
and I think that would be amazing!
The recipe that Hannah used for the key lime pie came from our friends in the
Keys, Moral Compass. The Fish was a lemon garlic wine sauce and the Basmati rice was made
in the pressure cooker with Amba spice. We found a woman in St. Mary's who gives
people rides and so we went to WinDixie to get food for this evening.
Now we are cleaning up and getting ready for bed with warm full bellys and
the memory of good friends. We'll catch ya'll tomorrow or the next day.