How life changes on a phone call. Norm Lindsey, the local mechanic who replaced our port engine this spring, has voiced serious concerns about the starboard engine. So we are taking a short cruise tomorrow to attend the Looper convention...and then returning to Ditto Landing next week to have him replace that engine next summer...with a new grand baby boy, wedding and honeymoon on the horizon, we can wait this out. Saved us a day of driving and musical cars...no need to boat travel those miles to Grand Rivers/ Green Turtle Bay and store TUMBLEWEED on the hard... we should be back in Wichita early...all things we can handle.  Sad news for those of you counting on having TUMBLEWEED ADVENTURES to look at for the next couple of weeks...its a day trip to Joe Wheeler and then back. The funny (or is it ironic???) part is that we have been saying for the last year that we are getting a new boat...Johnny Cash style...one part at a time...I think this will just about do that!!!!