Well, here it is almost the end of June.  They say summer has arrived here.  The weather is already hot (for me) and they say low 90’s is normal for this time of year (good thing we plan on getting out of here for July and August, the REALLY hot months of the summer).  We have backed our boat into the slip and our bow faces East, by the time the temperature steams up in the afternoon, we are in the shade.  We have been lucky to have a little breeze over our bow so we are able to sit out there and sit outside a little.  We are in for a few more days of rain so I figured this would be a good time to update the website.

We visited another point of interest a few days ago.  On the 19th we visited the Tennessee River Museum which is located in Savannah Tennessee, which is about 18 miles from where we are located.  We do most of our shopping in Savannah.  They have a Lowes, a Wal-mart and a grocery store called Krogers, so it is all pretty handy.

The museum we visited in Savannah had quit a lot of information in it, it covered a large period of time and was bigger than it appeared from outside.  It cost $3 per person to get in and when you left, you could have a free jaw breaker as a treat :).

Here are some pictures of the museum and I have posted more on the “Points of Interest” page.

Tennessee River Museum

Arrow Heads

More Arrow Heads

Big Arrow Head display

It is something to think that they made all these various arrow heads by beating them with a rock.  Think you could have survived out there?  That would mean no TV, no cell phone, no golf and, heaven forbid, no Facebook.  OMG!

When we left Sunnyside, we had our little boat

Little Touch in slip.

put on top of the boat right in hopes that we could get the hoist installed here at Aqua. As we traveled people would walk by our boat looking at the little boat on the roof with puzzling looks on their faces, than ask “How do you get that down?”, Gary would respond, “That’s our life raft, so when the boat sinks, we just jump in”.  That really threw them for a loop.  Well the marina here has been working on getting our hoist installed and after a few missteps, they have finally completed their mission.

New Hoist

The person who installed it was quite meticulous and had to ponder the various problems that arose.  We bought the hoist from a company in Canada, so that in itself presented a few problems and some extra costs.  As you can see though, it is quite beefy

Beefy Davit

They had to build a custom base for the davit as the pole didn’t quite touch the floor

Davit Base

Here are a few more pictures of it

Remote control  Wench, I mean Winch!  How Sweet!

Where davit is run through roof

This was another problem, they had to made a special shim so the hoist was level, see that white strip between the hoist and the roof of the boat?

Hoist from the rear of the boat

All in all, it looks good.  We haven’t received the bill for the labor yet.  I am making sure Gary’s life insurance is paid up in case he has a heart attack when we get the bill 🙂

Today we’ll be putting the little boat back on the big boat so we’ll see how it works.  If you don’t see another update here, you’ll know the boat tipped over and we sank, so keep your fingers crossed 🙂

We’ll be traveling back to Minnesota in a few days.  Our daughter Jenny has (hopefully) closed on her new home by then so we will have some place to stay.  Otherwise we may be camping out in our van with the cat :(.  He does like to stretch out and not share very well.  Hopefully we’ll not have any encounters with Mr. Deer again.  I don’t think our insurance company would appreciate it.

Don’t know if we’ll be updating while we are in Minnesota, but you never know.

It’s Summertime now, be sure to enjoy it!