Hurricane Irma

All of Florida evacuated for Irma. There wasn't anywhere to get the boat pulled, so we prepped her as best we could and moved as much as possible inland.  We did find storage for the dingy. We went to Tallahassee to move Gary's mom and ended up at his brothers in Ponce DeLeon. Stress was high.  We were blessed again that Miss Em had minimal damage.  Can't say the same for our physical and financial damage.  Living in Florida has always had the possibility of losing everything due to a storm.  All we can do is prepare and hope for the best.

Now we are at the City Marina to finish Hurricane season.  Our future plans are not definite but I still have dreams of many more years on Miss Em.

Working months at Ft. Pierce

Peacock Crossing!

We had so much fun checking out Ft. Pierce city birds!  They live in a certain area and are the masters of all they survey.

They have their own sign!

They take the kids out for a stroll!

They take a nap wherever they want!

If they feel like a brisk jaunt they take it!

Back at the City Marina to finish up projects

As with any vessel, maintenance must be addressed.  We love Ft. Pierce for maintenance.  It has great facilities and shops for supplies.  There is a wholesale store here called the Marine connection, like sailorman but with lots of new items.  add two boatyards and a fiberglass store and you can get just about anything done.  We also stop here for our 6 month health checks.  I have found some great doctors and am happy to say am in good health.  Gary just got his medicare so he will be doing his well checks also.

We spent a month at the City Marina to let me start work on the toe rails.  I hope with the new awlwood system I am using that this will really cut done on the brightwork maintence.

One side done, but then we had to have the boat hauled for bottom work at Witicar boatyard.  This was more involved than we thought but it was all done and looks great.





We were so happy to get back on Miss Em.  I made a fancy meal for us. Gary's birthday was that week and it was so fine to be back home.

Then we have the eclipse!

I looked in the tablet and got a great view, however it didn't take great pictures.