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Prep for winter
Oct. 22nd, 2023 08:34 pmIt's that time of year. We decided that late fall waterskiing was not going to be a thing this year, and so rather than waiting until late November, we hauled the power boat on Saturday morning, just managing it before the rain started.
Today I did the winterizing project. I have the idea that last year I had written notes about this process, but searching on several different computers did not reveal any files with "winter" in their names. So I guess I never actually wrote the notes. Today, I came in and wrote little paragraphs after every step. So maybe next year it will go more smoothly. In fact, this year it went pretty smoothly, despite the fact that it was quite windy, which is a headache. You wipe your oily fingers on a paper towel and now you are holding a paper towel which you can't just put down or it will blow into the backyard. So you have to go find the little bag with the other oily paper towels, which is held down by a stone, because otherwise the whole bag will blow into the backyard. It was kind of nice not to be below freezing, which often happens when we haul it in late November. It did take about 4 hours total, though, which is kind of a long time.
The boat is still sitting in the driveway, uncovered. I decided at 3 PM that I wanted to ride my bicycle to the grocery store and then make dinner, rather than spending another probably more than an hour moving it and getting it covered. Unfortunately, now it's going to be weekdays, and it gets dark pretty early now, even though it is still daylight savings. We'll manage. I want to finish this before next weekend, because next weekend is the Berkshires square dance weekend, and thus we will be away.
My other activity for the weekend was to go to a games party yesterday afternoon. I played "Three Ring Circus", in which you have to build a circus out of different types of performer cards, and then put on performances to get victory points. There were kind of a lot of fiddly rules. I got confused about what I should focus on, and ended up with the least amount of victory points in the end. It was still fun. And themely! When people were deciding what games to play and who should play in which groups, and this game was floated, I said "I think I should be playing that game." And other people agreed that totally I should.
Then I played "Micropolis" which is about building ant colonies, in which you get victory points for different kinds of cards that you play and how they connect together, and there are rules about how you acquire these cards. I came in middle-of-the-road of five players. Finally, I played "Shake That City", which was a game of tile laying for creating a city, where you get points for different groupings of neighborhood tiles, and had a fascinating mechanism to restrict where and how you could lay tiles, to make it trickier. Surprisingly, I won that game.
Today I did the winterizing project. I have the idea that last year I had written notes about this process, but searching on several different computers did not reveal any files with "winter" in their names. So I guess I never actually wrote the notes. Today, I came in and wrote little paragraphs after every step. So maybe next year it will go more smoothly. In fact, this year it went pretty smoothly, despite the fact that it was quite windy, which is a headache. You wipe your oily fingers on a paper towel and now you are holding a paper towel which you can't just put down or it will blow into the backyard. So you have to go find the little bag with the other oily paper towels, which is held down by a stone, because otherwise the whole bag will blow into the backyard. It was kind of nice not to be below freezing, which often happens when we haul it in late November. It did take about 4 hours total, though, which is kind of a long time.
The boat is still sitting in the driveway, uncovered. I decided at 3 PM that I wanted to ride my bicycle to the grocery store and then make dinner, rather than spending another probably more than an hour moving it and getting it covered. Unfortunately, now it's going to be weekdays, and it gets dark pretty early now, even though it is still daylight savings. We'll manage. I want to finish this before next weekend, because next weekend is the Berkshires square dance weekend, and thus we will be away.
My other activity for the weekend was to go to a games party yesterday afternoon. I played "Three Ring Circus", in which you have to build a circus out of different types of performer cards, and then put on performances to get victory points. There were kind of a lot of fiddly rules. I got confused about what I should focus on, and ended up with the least amount of victory points in the end. It was still fun. And themely! When people were deciding what games to play and who should play in which groups, and this game was floated, I said "I think I should be playing that game." And other people agreed that totally I should.
Then I played "Micropolis" which is about building ant colonies, in which you get victory points for different kinds of cards that you play and how they connect together, and there are rules about how you acquire these cards. I came in middle-of-the-road of five players. Finally, I played "Shake That City", which was a game of tile laying for creating a city, where you get points for different groupings of neighborhood tiles, and had a fascinating mechanism to restrict where and how you could lay tiles, to make it trickier. Surprisingly, I won that game.
