Time for House Cleaning?

Elizabeth City, NC
No LL

Here's a recommendation, when in Elizabeth City, eat at the Prime Sirloin restaurant. They have a great dinner buffet. Last night they had pulled port, and BBQ ribs and chicken livers on the buffet. Libby hates liver and won't serve it to me. I love chicken liver sandwiches.

Years ago, my friends and I would walk to Maurices deli restaurant in Schenectady. Maurices was a downtown institution. On Tuesdays, I could buy a chicken liver sandwich on an onion roll with Russian dressing. They were delicious. 25 years later, Maurices was no longer in downtown Schenectady but they did open a branch on Wolf Road in Colonie, near my new office. I asked there if they still had chicken liver sandwiches. They said, "No." I asked why. They said, "All our customers who ate them died." That was rather sobering. Still I love them and if I don't eat them every week, they shouldn't kill me.

New subject. I posted a question on the Westsail bulletin board. I complained that Tarwathie's speed under power was getting slower. I wondered if it could be the hull absorbing water. One reply said that a really good job of cleaning the propeller would do it. Bud Taplin, the Westsail guru, asked "How much STUFF have you brought aboard since living on the boat?" Good question. We think that we do a good job in not accumulating stuff, but it's time to review.

Richard and Penny on Viking Rose said their rule is to discard anything that hasn't been used in two years. I think we'll adopt their rule and do a thorough house cleaning when up on Lake Champlain this summer. I'll report to you how many pounds of stuff we manage to shed.