Everything comes around again. I’d promised a friend with a schooner that I’d show him how to splice his double braid rope. Not too hard to do. However, I’d not realized how difficult it can be to splice OLD braid. So, I took my handy little splicing wand with me (a Brion Toss original) as well as my bag of various splicing stuff. My friend pulled out his Sampson splicing fid (of a variety I’d not seen before) and we proceeded to break the puller string in my wand and to have huge problems with his fid pushing the core braid through. Overall, a few hours went by and the splice still wasn’t complete. So, what comes around again? The friend is probably just going to end up seizing the line around his snap shackle rather than having a proper splice. He started out with a seizing. It all comes around.

Oh, yes, it’s been a great weekend.  I spent Saturday morning in the dingy with a long telescoping pole and scrub brush cleaning the hull near the waterline after Mahdee’s winter of limited hull cleaning. Only the waterline really seems to gather much bio-film luckily.  Squeaky clean now.

If having that done and over wasn’t enough for the happy dance, David and I went out for a lovely little day sail.  Mildly sun burned, we feel squeaky clean, too.

Into spring and new things, I picked out some “new” sheet music/midi files for David’s clarinet playing–and we’ve had some great evenings of music. David is now learning Cold Play’s Every Tear Drop Is A Waterfall.  This is a song that my sister-in-law, Alina, does a great cover of.  You can see/hear her on YouTube here: Alina and Cold Play

David had been previously playing Yann Tiersen’s Comptine d’un Autre Ete l’apres which is a really lovely piece from the movie Amelie.  It also happens to be a song that the cat does love–she purrs and comes running to me when he plays it.  So, ever glad to have a happy cat, I went in search of other music by Yann Tiersen.  I found La Valse d’Amelie which is another great Yann Tiersen composition.  Also, I found a cover play by the very talented duo Pasdetrois. I hope to hear more from these two guys.   Here’s the cover

Every day’s sunrise can be a reminder to Christians of the first Easter.