Month: September 2021

Wednesday, September 29, 2021.
Temp: 86/63, Humidity: 54/100%, Top Wind: SE5 mph, Precip: FOG. AGAIN! then sunny and hot,
Miles Traveled: 43 in 5.5 hours…. average 7.8mph.

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Even though we were in a covered slip and could barely tell it was getting light outside, we still were awake before 6:30. Captain rolled over and said there was a fog advisory until 9:00. How’d he know that?! So I got up and looked outside. It was OK here in the marina, but I could see out to where the river is, and yep – there was fog. Hmmm…🤔. I reported back my findings and suggested that we could have a delayed start today. You know – like the busses are running one hour late? Not really a snow day, just a late start. So I puttered around and was not even getting ready to go.

Tuesday, September 28, 2021.
Temp: 85/59, Humidity: 49/100%, Top Wind: SW5 mph, Precip: none-sunny!, Miles Traveled: 50

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This started out as a really nice day, and pretty much stayed that way. We woke up on time with the sunshine, without even trying. Our dumb body clocks are getting into a bad habit of waking up at 6:30 or before. I heard Kenny pick up his phone and moan… it was 6:29. The dingalingalarm went off one minute later. Obviously I was already awake too. 😵‍💫 Time to get after it. We were on the west side of the lake, so as we tootled out of the marina basin to the lake, we were treated to a beautiful sunrise.

Friday September 24, 2021.
Temp: 75/46, Humidity: 39/100%, Top Wind: SW6 mph, Precip: Fog 🌫, but no rain, Miles Traveled: 64 in under six hours, number of locks: 1, about 23’ drop

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Indeed, the river is runing faster, which is great for our fuel economy!!
We were rudely awakened at 6:30 by my obnoxious alarm that said it was time to go. Booo. So up and atum, make some coffee, then head upstairs to prepare for departure. I swabbed down all the windows, and opened the drivers side. I went back down to get some things for the travel day – like Gladys and my blankie! I came back up, and my window was flogged up again! I guess we were at dew point, plus I was seeing a little bit of fog steaming from the river.

Thursday September 23, 2021.
Temp: 70/51, Humidity: 34/89%, Top Wind: NW11 mph, Precip: NONE! 👍, Miles Traveled: none

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Brrr! The temperatures have definitely dropped!! Another lovely sleep in day and I got up to blue sky, sunshine and feeling a little bit like Chilly Willy! 🐧 I actually turned on the heat! That’s another great reason to be plugged into dock power!! And I found another spider web INSIDE the boat! 🕸Grrr! We had a full complete web hanging off of the bikes yesterday morning. We figure that we brought somebody inside with the bikes when we brought them in for safe keeping while here in the city. So last night during the witching hour (just around sunset), I was surveying the bikes. I saw a spider sticking out of the end of one of the bicycle handle grips! I tried to grab him, but all I got was four legs. Drat! That left him with a body and four legs. So I sprayed our Terro spider killer into the handle, and that should have croaked him. But this morning, there was a new web over by the coffee maker. I guess I better go hunting tonight, because Miss Muffet must have a friend in here somewhere!
We had no agenda for today, but it was really nice that it wasn’t raining. I suppose we could have got the bikes out and gone somewhere, but we’ve explored Nashville and the surrounding area by car before, so it felt good to just relax and take it easy with no pressing agenda. We watched the goings-on around the waterway while I fixed bacon and eggs for breakfast. Apparently one of the guys who works for the dock management company also runs a pontoon tour boat. The Pontoon Saloon went out a couple of times today, and this was the first time we’ve really seen any people around the dock.

Wednesday September 22, 2021.
Temp: 68/61, Humidity: 51/87%, Top Wind: NW21! mph, Precip: Yep! clouds and some rain, Miles Traveled: none

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It was a nice sleep-in day. 😴. We woke up to a cool morning, with a bit of rain. Yep. There is still some rain. But I tell you what…. the coolness feels great!!

Tuesday September 21, 2021.
Temp: 82/69, Humidity: 67/87%, Top Wind: SE5 mph, Precip: Yep! clouds and some rain, Miles Traveled: 19

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It was a leisurely get-up kind of morning. This crew likes those kinds of days. 😊. We were only going about 20 miles today, and were hoping to not travel in the rain. As we meandered out of the yacht club basin about 9:00, it really was a narrow-through-the-trees kind of channel, even with high water!

Monday September 20, 2021.
Temp: 73/71, Humidity: 91/96%, Top Wind: SE9 mph, Precip: Yep! rain, Miles Traveled: 45

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The alarm went off at 7:00. I stretched and yawned and thought about getting up. At 7:02 the rain started pounding down on the roof of the boat house. 💦. It was going to be a wet day. I did get up and check the lock queue and found nobody waiting at the lock. I checked the weather, and saw that we might have a bit of a break around 8:30, but for now… back to bed. We didn’t want to go out in the pounding rain and thunder storm. Fortunately, the thunderboomers went by and the rain did let up a bit for us to get out of Dodge. But it drizzled ALL DAY LONG. Like Seattle drizzle. Wet. Wet. Wet.