Port Credit June 30, 2015

The day started with the promise of partly sunny skies. But as time has marched on it has gotten cloudier and colder. I have gone from shorts and a t-shirt to jeans, sweater and sweatshirt. Tomorrow promises to be better.

Port Credit is a lovely little town. Very cosmopolitan, like a little Toronto. Lots of ethnic people and interesting mixes of ethnicity. Overall the people are very handsome. Visit www.portcredit.com to see more of the city. We have seen many very expensive cars so there must be some money here too.

We have made a couple trips to the marine store today. I got some reusable plastic ties and Kerry got a cute little dish strainer to hold our just washed dishes. It drains directly into the sink. Jim bought a swivel for his anchor because he noticed his chain twisting when he pulled his anchor up. Anne gave me one as a birthday present last year.

Jim installing his anchor swivel, seen on the right side of the deck

He also got a little doo-dad that makes a cleat in a dock between the boards when there is not one there to tie off. I used mine at Port Dalhousie and he saw the advantage to having one.

The big project today was Jim sealing his cockpit drain. The guard over the scupper leaked, so water bypassed the drain hose and went directly into the bilge. Will it work? Will my hatch leak again? Where is the rain when we need it? Jim also bought a fishing license for Ontario which cost about $65 Canadian. He hesitated about buying one at first. Jola "encouraged" him to get one and I told him to picture me eating fish and him not. So he finally did get it.

I put my new bumper into service. The older one is retired for now. I sat on it and squeezed it flat for storage until I get back home.

Jola and Kerry made 4 little pizzas for lunch and they were delicious. We had chicken and alfredo sauce and pepperoni and tomato sauce. We used our oven for the first time today. It worked great. Later, we both spent a fair amount of time using metal cleaner and polish on it to get it really shiny. I had the cleaner out for another project and all of a sudden we were cleaning the oven.

Dinner was Italian, at Papa Giuseppe's. We had the special which was shrimp and scallops in pasta and other sauces. It was really good. We have eaten out 2 days in a row, so we are ready to stay in for a while.

We walked down the channel walk after dinner. We looked at all the debris floating in the water and imagined what we could use if we were on the show Naked and Afraid. There was a hose, some water bottles and various flip flops and sandals that would be very useful. Then we spotted a flag on a teak pole floating in the water. It looked like something we should  try to salvage. But how? Kerry saw a long pole with a two sided hook that was to be used to snag someone who fell in the water. We could use it. But there was a wrought iron fence in the way and the hook would not fit through it. I did not know how to get it.

Then Kerry proved she was as smart as a New Caldonia crow. She suggested that I turn the pole around and use the skinny end to snag the flag. It worked! I felt like the French poodle. Below is a picture of Kerry, the flag we retrieved, and the pole used for the salvage.

Canada Day is tomorrow. Their is a parade at 10:00 and festivities all day. There is a big "Paint the Town Red" promotion going on, plus fireworks and many other activities. The weather is forecast to be good too, even as fog moved in at the end of the day. Should be a fun day.