Wednesday brings the pump out boat to our slip...and laundry! It’s once again time for laundry. Floyd had gone to Paducah to give our friends Nick and Taryn a lift from the airport so I decided to use the marina laundry room. No one around when I arrived and no machines being used so I went to work. Imagine my surprise when I went to use the dryers and there was a huge warm load of white boat rags. Didn’t slow me down...and gave me meaning and purpose to fold and neatly stack...though I’m thinking someone is gonna remember them....told Floyd if they were still there tomorrow, they were his!

Rain storms are coming in...ruining our plans for a boating expedition...in fact, we may be lucky to get away from the dock before returning to Wichita. Though I’m not excited about rain, I am anticipating cooler temps....been more than a little warmish!!

Brother Barry wanted ribs and a T-shirt...score!! We bought both...but very doubtful that those ribs will make the trip home...hehehe! No one cooks tonight!!

Life is never dull around us....Floyd had a little issue with an ingrown toenail so they sent us to the clinic in Eddyville....pronounced Ed-a-vl...since we were only seven miles away we took the road trip to Fredonia Kentucky. We’d visited in 2008....but forgot what it looked like. Ate lunch at the CopperTop BBQ restaurant...and took photos that Floyd assured me I’d taken before...worth the effort. Got chased off by a little black yippee  dog...all laughs...home in time for a nap...and bought ribs for supper tonight...and yes, his toe is throbbing. Gonna hurt for awhile...no photos of that deal!

Silly me...Floyd’s new dock box is in Lampe, Mo...Table Rock...it’s a ten hour round trip road trip...but he says “worth it”! Dakota and I will be home alone on that day. Then he’ll have to hire people to help wrestle it to our spot...I’ll be no help at all!

We thought Marina Days was a big bother...several booths selling stuff we didn’t need or want...some food...again nothing that interested us...lots of kid activities. Kayaks, bouncy house, paddle boards, free pontoon boat rides and swimming off the boat ramp dock..bands in the afternoon....and it was hot hotter hottest. We had more fun watching from the aft deck.

Early evening entertainment was provided by drunks staggering up and down our dock...don’t know where they came from or where they thought they were going in swimsuits with no shoes...but it was a distraction watching them trying to look sober.

About 930 pm someone on our dock decided they had better music...N O T...but we were subjected to it anyway...you know it’s loud when you can hear it in the aft cabin with the AC on full blast...it didn’t really work as a lullaby...but didn’t last long....I told Floyd he shoulda honked his horn...that would have stopped them.

Weekends on Pier 5 are certainly different....they’ll all be gone this afternoon....til next Saturday !

Enjoyed a lovely evening dining at the Yacht club....we have really not had a bad experience dining there. Thinking that things will be kinda crazy tonight...lots of music and kid activities going on today...it’s National Marina Days....bouncy toys, games....masses seem to have appeared. We plan to venture up this afternoon. There is a band at the club tonight...we might go for drinks, but we don’t plan to eat there. It’ll be crazy busy!

Boat is clean...refrigerator defrosted...oh, have I mentioned how much we love the new refrigerator...now that we’ve learned how it operates!!! Lol, that was fun, wasn’t it!???

Floyd and Captain Bill managed to get Freon in the truck AC...so we’ll be returning the rental car on Monday...he’s placed an order for a big vertical dock box. He’ll get to go fetch it himself near Lake of the Ozarks next week sometime....we are counting down the days til ICT return. Definitely closer to the end than the beginning!!

How’d it get to be Thursday already?? Days are hot hotter and humidity is high or higher...and seems to go by really fast. I took Dakota to be groomed yesterday...didn’t realize I asked for a summer do...but he sure got one! He’ll be cooler that’s for sure...though I’m a little worried about sunburn...thank goodness hair grows. Couple of weeks and he’ll be back to normal!! Til then he looks really thin...

Floyd got groomed yesterday too...Massage, mani/ pedi and facial! We are all looking way more human these days.

Marina is getting ready for big doings this weekend...it’s Marina days...so we’ve done laundry and are headed to the grocery...gotta get that stuff outta the way before the masses appear.

Almost forgot...dinghy ride around all 12 piers...GTB boasts of having 450 slips ...we’d say they are mostly full...Dakota loved it... we saw several gold looper flags and a couple of white ones.  We saw several really clever boat names....the cops among us...OFF DUTY(with a thin blue line through the middle) and CRIME SCENE. Our favorite today was a sailboat...KOSTALOT.

Supper last night at the Thirsty Turtle with Nick and Taryn....followed by sipping drinks and cigars on our slip deck....we were all up past our bedtime...