Today I am thankful for this beautiful wood table which Brian cut down from the original to fit our settee area up in the pilot house. I’m sitting here as we slowly and gently sail downwind south toward Magdalena Bay on the outer southern tip of the Baja Peninsula.
This morning, I spent an hour cutting and paring apples from the box under our downstairs bench. These apples came from the trees in our mini orchard in Santa Cruz. Brian picked persimmons and apples to overflow that box, a smaller box, and a bag the day before we left. The box is still half full of apples, and there are half a dozen lemons left. Each one reminds me of our little homestead on the hill.
Today’s apples were placed in an apple crisp which we ate for breakfast.
Other menu items today were deep fried, battered tuna chunks(from the 50 or so pounds we have in our freezer), mashed potatoes, and pecan pie. Our can of cranberry sauce is stowed somewhere under our floorboards, I think. I couldn’t find it, so we drank our cranberry juice and were thankful.
On my to-do list was to check the clothes clipped to the lifelines and bring them in when they were dry. Eila washed and rinsed them yesterday and I hung them.
Today I also started reading St. Augustine’s Confessions. Wow. I am sure to post many excerpts in the near future. I had forgotten about bringing it aboard and happily discovered it today. It has long been on my list of books I want to read.
Just after the sun slipped into the ocean, with pink clouds still illuminating our way, we carefully picked our way around and between multiple buoys marking lobster traps for the local fishermen. Then, as soon as the anchor was set in Bahia Santa Maria, and engine off, we set our cockpit table, hung up our solar lanterns, and ate our Thanksgiving meal.
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