Brrrrrrrrrr

Fort Meyers Beach
No LL

When we left Marathon, we were warned that we would freeze up here. Well -- they were right. It is only 33 degrees F (0.5C) right now at 0700. Brrrrrr. Back in the days when we lived in New York or Vermont or Sweden, 33 degrees felt balmy. It doesn't feel like that now; not out here on the water.

I'm up early to start the cabin heater. We have a propane heater that works well but it sucks down the fuel very fast. We use it only to warm up the cabin in the morning -- like right now. It's my job to get out of the warm bed and get it started. I'll confess though -- before getting up I was fantasizing about plural marriage. If we had two more partners in the bed with us, we could put the other two on the outside while Libby and I cuddled warmly on the inside.

We have been enjoying ourselves here. We watched the impressive inauguration ceremonies with Norman and Martha. Yesterday we played Balderdash with our cruising friend Andre (on Aruba II) and his girlfriend Joan.

Andre suggested that we take a side trip up the Caloosahatchee River toward Lake Okeechoobee. He said we could see a lot of old Florida -- exactly the kind of community that we liked so much in Everglades City. We're going to take up his suggestion. We have always enjoyed exporation by river. We leave tomorrow morning early. The weather forecast says that the low temperature tonight should be 51F (10F) -- something we can stand.

By the way, we also invited Dave from SV Destiny to play Balderdash with us. At the last minute, he had to cancel. It seems that Dave managed to spill an entire gallon of used engine oil inside his boat! Oh no. That would certainly have been a bloggable event if Dave had a blog.