In a complete fit of the weather not cooperating, with my needs, it was dry today. We hadn't covered the boat yet, and it needed doing before it really starts to snow, so we went down last night, set up the frame and put on the cover today.

I needed to be working on the grant due today, for which the PI sent me twenty additional pages of badly-written text this morning (meaning yesterday, but it's not the next day until you've slept, so all of today may be Sunday in my head, despite the Monday-ness of it). So, I'm up late, and still have over 15 pages to, well, I don't have time to make it pretty, so I'll have to settle for it mostly making sense.

And guess what I'm doing this evening at 6:00 on Boston Cable Access Television? We're on a show called It's All About Arts. We were recruited months ago, before I took this project. Great. I get to be on TV with dark circles under my eyes and the damn zit that decided to grace my face this morning.

The boat cover is an amazing thing. It's 100 lbs of canvas, custom tailored to our vessel and the frame they provided, and it fits like a glove. But you have to do it just right. The major hitch this year was getting it from the ground up to the boat. It had to come all the way up over the lifelines this time, where other years we've come up over the transom and been able to drop the line. I was on the deck, husband on the ladder, and we would have been fine but for the last two feet. I had a moment of complete fear that he'd be knocked off the ladder, but that's probably what gave me the strength to hold on to the thing and flip it over the line. Leverage was not on my side.

Little K sat on the cabin top as we unfolded the thing, and just giggled as we rolled it down the frame and the sides came sliding down. It's like standing inside something that instantly becomes a very big tent. MJ seemed unimpressed by the whole thing, but he did draw us a great skull and crossbones while we were working.

The new cat spends a lot of its time on the guinea pig cage.

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[ETA 1:26: NOOOOOOOOO! fifteen additional pages, and it is officially too long. Crapcrapcrap.]

[ETA 02:26: Copying your vendor's web page of self promotion is less helpful than information on what you're going to do with it.]

[ETA 04:18: toast, comma, crispy. sent last two or three pages to toxicfur to sort out when she gets in.]]