Nov 17 - a really small town

That's the thing about New Smyrna Beach -- it is a small town. Sometimes I think that it's as small as Port Loring !

Yesterday the mirrors came down. It didn't take them long. I contacted Riley about the drywall guy and the papayas and he'd already heard from Judy, our next door neighbor "Riley, they're taking away your mirrors !".

An hour later the drywall guy came over, checked out what he'd have to do and called me back later in the day with his quote. It's costing more to fix the walls, naturally, than take down the mirrors. Not much more -- I think that he wants to take it easy on me because he knows that I'm going to be doing more work !

Even later, I called Ralph's Mobile Marine who is going to come over on Monday and look at the Merc 25. He's bringing a carburetor rebuild kit, figuring that's the problem. I told him what I'd done, about the mud wasps in the engine etc.

Dolly came over at 4:30pm and picked up her 14 papayas and got a look at the house, marks on the wall and all, new appliances which she hadn't seen yet, Sandy's garden work which is really looking good, etc. etc. She's constantly stressed by what's going on at their "beach house" as Riley calls it. Living under construction is one thing but she's gone from basically living in a one-floor house to three. She really never had to come upstairs at Keely except to clean whereas in their new house, laundry and entrance are at ground level; living room/kitchen is up one level and bedroom is the next level up.

At 5pm we met Katie and Jason, along with Marcia from Oceanbreeze -- for the walk-through at Saxon. I gave Jason my list and went through that. Trimming, filters, etc. etc. They are going to be away all next week so I'll go over during that time and fix the dryer ... hopefully.

We stopped at the fish store on the way back from Saxon, picking up hog snapper for dinner. They call it hog snapper here but it's not really a snapper; it's a member of the wrasse family.

Mid afternoon the parts for the faucet arrived and I installed them, but not without incident. I hadn't realized that the hose below was twisting as I undid the top nut but luckily I didn't break the hose. I thought that the hose was broken, it's hard to tell with these braided hoses, so I went over to Ace Hardware and picked up another one ... but it didn't fit. It had the right-sized connectors but they weren't deep enough. I may replace it at some point but it's not leaking ... if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

So that was it, a busy day in many respects.

Today we're off to Orlando ...

Onward !