The Weathermaker must have heard me complaining. This morning the wind died down and then shifted to the south, bringing warm air. The sun poked its nose out from behind the clouds occasionally, and the temperature soared about thirty degrees above what it's been. Got all the way up to 75! Now it feels like Florida again.
I was able to apply another coat of varnish. Just two more to go. Also made some phone calls, mailed some mail, and bought a few groceries.
When Roy took the curtain to Nancy, the canvas woman, a few days ago, he asked her to replace both zippers, but she only replaced one, because she thought the other one was ok. It wasn't; it came apart again, so Roy phoned her, and she came over and got the curtain and took it back to the shop and replaced the other zipper. She didn't charge anything for labor, because it was her fault she didn't replace it in the first place. She only charged $5 for the zipper and had it ready by three o'clock, so Roy rode his bike over there and got it.
Roy also rode to another part of town neither of us had been to before. He said it was nice out there, and there were a lot of stores. He went there specifically to buy another can of Z-Spar Flagship varnish, which wasn't available around here. He got the varnish and also some wire and a book on metal corrosion in boats. Turned out the radar shop was right next door, so he checked in there. The new motor hadn't come in yet.
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