A hot one!

July 6th.  

With all our wonderful 4th of July celebrations over we were heading out this morning for NY.  Our plan is for Mike to work on completing repairs on the one engine and for me to clean out and get the boat ready for sale.  Yes you read that correctly.  After much soul searching, and working out the financial aspect of owning a boat 8 hours away, along with the age fact (the boat and ours) we have decided to put Kismet up for sale.  

We knew it was going to be a long days drive and the temperatures would be in the 90's so by 8:00 a.m. we were one the road.

Oh Brockport, home to the Skoogs some of our favorite people on the planet.  We knew that on Tuesday we would be paying them a visit (along with our daughter and son in law, more on that later).  Knowing this made the next couple of days work a little easier to deal with. 

We arrived in Macedon around 4:00 p.m.  The temperature was in the low 90's but thank heavens the humidity was only about 40+ percent so it made it a tad bit more bearable.  First thing I noticed is that the marina was full with boats, many more than the last time we were here.  Our friends Bob and Laurel were docked across the way from us and to our delight were there.  Oh what a joy to hear someone shout out from across the way "Welcome".   Will catch up with them later, for now our job was to open the boat, get the air conditioner on and unload the car.  

Needless to say the boat was HOT! and it was going to take the rest of the evening and early morning hours for it to cool down to a comfortable temperature.  So after getting settled and putting things away, well at least as much as we could do at the time, we decided to go get a bite to eat.  The thought of cooking something for dinner and only adding to the temperature on the boat was not appealing.  So we headed over to our favorite little family restaurant.  Only to find out when we arrived that they were closed for the next week.  (vacation for the family and staff).  We ended up in Victor at a Wendy's which ironically when we arrived we realized their air conditioning was out.  It was still cooler than the boat and Mike (and myself) didn't want to sit in the car since we had just been doing that for the past 8 hours).  So we enjoyed a bite to eat and headed back to Kismet.  

The sun had gone behind some incoming clouds so sitting out back on the boat was not bad.  We chatted for a while and discussed what our "plan of attack" would be for the following morning.  By this time the temperature in the boat had gone down from 90 degrees to about 84.  It was an improvement.  We both went to bed fairly early as exhaustion had set in.  I must admit it was pretty warm for a while, but this morning I ended up pulling up the covers as it had cooled considerably outside and in the boat.  

Took this video first thing this morning (4:30 a.m).  It was darker out than what this video shows, but still very enjoyable to hear the birds waking up.  There was a little rain predicted for this morning which would hopefully work to cool things down a bit more.  

Okay now for REALITY!  This is what our cabin on the boat currently looks like.  This is not usual for us, but when the heat beats out your sense of ......well straigtening up this is what happens.  Not to worry though my cleaning genes will be busting out shortly once Mike is up and I will be whipping this place back into shape.  Besides I need to take photos of the inside of the boat for the boat broker.  

That's enough for now. Enjoy your day everyone!   (I need to get cleaning. 🧽)