Its been another of those weird summers, but at least we haven't had to deal with snow the next day.
The other day I was listening to a fellow that just got back from South Dakota, and he said there had been so much rain lately that what is usually brown is all green right now. At the Farmhouse Restaurant I was listening to someone say it was colder in Anacortes that day than it was in Siberia! The weather has been weird all over, not just here.

It's like stuck between a rock and a hard spot. If you have a sailboat, you end up powering much of the time, but only the rich can afford fuel right now. Guess we are getting a taste of what the Europeans have dealt with for years. How the gas companies can file record profits is beyond me! One of the boaters who spent a lot of time on the Inside Passage we contacted lately about interviewing. He told me sadly that he wasn't going to go this year. Too expensive.

Its hard to stay optimistic sometimes. Everything, including the economy sucks. But the boats keep getting bigger.

Wear a lot of clothes so you can 'layer' throughout the day, and cruise anyway. Hope you had those needed chores done before the good weather came. See you out on the water, if it's not raining!

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