We’ve been spending time in the Potato Slough. Lots of little projects getting done, oh so nice. Fixing chairs, making boom lifts, finishing up my foresail cover, varnishing things. Nice, nice, nice.

After the power boat anchored “atop us” we actually ended up enjoying their company. Funny people with New Jersey accents, they were exactly Archie and Edith of “All in the Family.” from attitudes to things they talked about. We had a blast since we could hear everything they talked about and it was all very cute. Their daughter, a gorgeous blond, and her hubby came up on their sailboat to raft up with their parents. Turns out it was “Archie’s” birthday.

One day, David pulled out the bit and brace to screw in some large #20 screws for two padeyes on the rubrail. Immediately, Archie says to Edith and a visiting friend of theirs: “Say, do you remember what a bit and brace is? No? Well, look at that sailboat fella using a bit and brace! He thinks when you got a’ 80 year old boat, you gotta use a’ 80 year old tool!”

Archie and Edith left yesterday. We actually miss them. Go figure.

Day before yesterday, a lovely little cutter, Misty, sailed into the slough and dropped the hook nearby. She’s a pretty boat and we were really happy to have the lovely view with Misty in it. We had drinks aboard Misty that evening and learned much about her owners and their sailing. The owners, experienced cruisers Bob and Jane, were spending a Delta vacation with their lovely teenage granddaughter, Lacy. We invited them for dinner aboard Mahdee yesterday and we enjoyed more of their stories and company. We brought “Musk Ox” the mascot up to the charthouse where he could also be part of the evening’s fun. We and they depart the slough on Friday morning–they go back down towards the Bay to drop of their granddaughter to her father and we go up further into the Delta to see a bit more before our trip back down into the Bay.