To our amazement, by morning the freighter had unloaded its cargo and left. There are now two mountains of salt sitting on the parking lot, in addition to the plateau that was there previously.
The transformer on the boat has been overheating, so Roy spent most of the day figuring out ways to cool it. He drilled a bunch of holes in the case and installed a fan. Now it's nice and cool.
I rode my bike to the copy place to make copies of the forms needed by Kaiser, the letter I wrote to Kaiser, and my new ham license that arrived in yesterday's mail. Then I went across to the A & P to check out their prices. Roy had bought English muffins at Shaw's yesterday for $2.09 for a package of six. At the A & P, I got them for 59 cents! Found the same bulk cookies I'd been paying $2 a pound for in Norfolk for 99 cents a pound. And to my utter amazement, they had chicken leg quarters for 28 cents a pound! That is not a misprint; it's really twenty-eight cents a pound! Those are depression prices. Haven't seen stuff that cheap for years. Didn't have room in my backpack for the chicken, so Roy went back later to get it, but couldn't find it. Then I went back. What do you know--it was all gone, every last bit! I kicked myself for not getting it in the morning, but I didn't feel so bad when I found out it was last week's chicken.
Couldn't cook lunch on the boat, because Roy had the electricity disconnected, so we walked half a block to a Chinese buffet. It turned out to be really good. A nice, clean, attractive place with a good view of the harbor and delicious, all-you-can-eat food, including real ice cream, for $5.95 each. What a deal! We hadn't gone there last year, because we're not especially fond of Chinese food, but this turned out to be really good.
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