We had planned a kayak outing today, probably to see manatees in the Crystal River nearby. However, Cindy hadn't been feeling well so we considered other plans. Mary knitted most of the morning and I helped Mark straighten tools and building materials in the garage. I took the tools that Mark wouldn't need out to the trunk of the car and left one of the nail guns for Mark. He would be installing trim around the doors and windows as well as putting down baseboard in the room above the garage. We also configured the internet capability of the garage doors. The MyQ system is easy to use and allows the garage doors to be opened and closed from anywhere.
We had been watching the monarch caterpillars on the milkweeds in front of Whittington’s house. As the caterpillars grew, we noticed that we no longer saw them. We assumed that they crawled into the nearby palm tree to form a chrysalis. We wondered if the adult monarch butterflies that we were watching today were the same as the caterpillars that we were watching a few days ago.
We came in for lunch when Mary called us in. She had used some of the leftovers in the refrigerator to make chicken quesadillas. Cindy came out for some leftover potato soup but continued to feel ill. We decided to scrap the kayak trip for today and do a few more things around the house.
After lunch, Mark and I started removing the chrome lettering from the boat. Some of the letters had fallen off over the past year due to what the dealer says is a weak adhesive. Mark decided to completely remove the lettering. Getting the chrome letters off was very easy. We used a blow dryer to heat the letters and pop them off of the boat hull. However, the adhesive adhered well to the paint. We tried alcohol, Goo Gone, WD-40 and charcoal lighter fluid to remove the adhesive. We had the best luck just using a plastic putty knife to scrape it off. We decided to get some acetone this evening to remove the adhesive.
Since we decided to forgo on the paddling trip today, we unloaded the kayaks from the bed of the pickup and replaced the paddles, seats and other gear into the garage. One kayak went out to the dock, the other was hung on the wall of the garage.
Cindy was feeling a little better so we went out to run a few errands. Cindy and Mary went to Walgreens to pick up a prescription while Mark and I sat in the car and looked for candidates as “Florida Man” as people went into Walgreen’s spirit store. We drove to the nearby True Value Hardware where Mary and Cindy found some drawer pull knobs for a bedroom dresser and Mark got a quart of acetone to use to try to remove the adhesive under the boat lettering. Our last stop was at Publix where we picked up a few grocery items and a bag of dog food,
After returning to the house Mark and I tried using the acetone to remove the acetone with mixed results. The acetone softened the adhesive but seemed to smear it over the side of the boat rather than removing it.
Mark made a stir fry with mixed vegetables, Asian noodles and Korean beef that was very good. Cindy didn't join us for dinner since she was still not feeling well. Everyone was hoping that she would be able to make the trip to Oregon in the morning. Mark and Cindy are buying a house near Eugene to rent to Robert and Sheena. They will also celebrate Robert and Michael's birthdays while they are there. We had planned to take them to the airport in the morning, but they found that it was less expensive to leave the car parked at the airport for the five days that they would be gone than to pay Airport Dan to transport them back home next week.
Since Whittingtons plan to leave before 5 am, we did our language lessons and turned in early.
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