Still in Demopolis!!

Day 93, November 2nd, 2009
Dry and sunny. Weather forecast is dry and sunny for the rest of the week! Got up this morning and we could see the level had dropped a couple of inches. Much discussion, checking out Internet websites, phone calls to lockmasters, etc. Looks good for tomorrow. At last!!

A nice guy here at the marina loaned me his sewing machine in the morning to repair our bug screens. The screening was tearing away from the zippers at the top. It didn't take too long to sew on some reinforcing tape. They're good again now and its good to have them back again. The mosquitoes just love me!!!!

Another unfortunate thing has arisen the last couple of days - bugs!! Sharpie's Dream got attacked by an invasion of ants, and then the next day Pat found a cockroach in the cockpit.
Twice 's Nice got some ants but nothing else. We have been very fortunate and haven't seen anything on Periwinkle. We have all bought a bunch of products at Wal-Mart to annihilate bugs!!!
Ugh!!! We've sprayed all the docking lines with ant stuff so they won't climb aboard.

Off to Wal-Mart again to make sure we'd have all the groceries on board that we need for the next 4 days. Next shopping opportunity will be in Mobile on the Gulf!!! Hooray!!! The seaside!!! When we got back I managed to coerce two people into playing Scrabble with me, before we all got together on Periwinkle for sundowners. (With the bug screens up and no mosquitoes. Ha!)

We're all happy to be moving on tomorrow. Been here long enough. Mobile here we come!