Day 186, Wednesday December 25th – Merry Christmas To
All
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| Meagre gift exchange |
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| The Stocking "bag" |
Well Christmas has arrived.
We are up early as usual, but today it is very windy, rainy and
grey. We have a very small gift
exchange. Ross has gotten us a heat
detection gun which has a laser pointer and when pointed at an object takes a
temperature reading. This is a desired
object so we can monitor the engine heat.
Ross has a stocking bag of treats and only 1 small gift, a pair of
shorts luckily they fits. Julie fries up
some squash seeds, and continues to prep for tonight’s dinner. Fresh baked bread is the first order of the
day and it comes with a few challenges as the oven thermal coupling seems to be
sending erroneous signals and the oven will not stay on. This could pose a problem once it is time to
cook the turkey. Between cooking Julie
is taking juggling lessons from Ross.
This started about 4 days ago and she practices intermittently (arms get
tired of throwing balls). Julie achieves
up to 12 catches which is a huge improvement over the previous days. While this is going on, Ross and Dawson go
for their Christmas run.
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| Ross and Julie heading over to pub for potluck |
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| Potluck at Pete's pub |
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| Conch horn building |
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| Ross blowing on the Conch |
At 1:00 we head over to Pete’s pub which is closed for
business, but the community is hosting a potluck and we have been invited. We are taking a pasta salad and a Napa
Cabbage salad (no bag of chips). Upon
our arrival we have Christmas eggnog; unfortunately they have rum and bourbon
which has way too much bourbon. We meet
many families that have winter homes in the area. There are probably about 60 people in
attendance and the food is excellent. A
family we are sitting with is presented with a conch shell that has been
cleaned and modified to be able to “blow” into it and make the conch call. Ross decides to make one of these when we get
back to the boat a couple hours later.
Ross hack saws through the tip of the conch, then drills a
hole to let additional air escape. He is
quite successful and we all have a blow on the new instrument.
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| Ross pouring champagne for dinner |
Julie decides to use her pressure cooker for the small
boneless turkey and it will only take about 30 minutes to cook so we play some
cribbage to while away the early evening awaiting our appetites to return. We have managed to skype with the Fay
Christmas and we have talked with Kevin who is alone for Christmas in
Newfoundland which makes us sad. We pop
open a bottle of champagne and toast to our health, and happiness. Dinner is
fabulous with Turkey, squash, mashed potatoes, gravy, dressing, fresh baked buns,
and pasta salad. For dessert we munch on
a Nassau chocolate rum cake which is yummy.
Cheers
Julie and Dawson
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