Saturday, 5 May 2018: Bayshore

Empty slips at Chaudoir's Dock.
 It will look quite different in a week or so.  

While many chose to celebrate Cinco de Mayo today,  most in Wisconsin choose to celebrate the first day of fishing season.  So, in the local spirit, we went to get a slip for our new boat at Chaudoir’s Dock. The cost for the season is only $700; my plan is to be out on the water at least two days each week and hopefully more.  When we got there and learned that there were only two slips left, I felt almost sick to my stomach.  How angry, disappointed, upset... I would have felt.  Anyway, all that was avoided.  

We decided to keep the oak buffet in the house rather than move it back to the gazebo (dining room) so we bought a pie safe for outside.  This new piece provides some much needed storage space.  I planned to go through all sorts of things to get organized and maybe even get most of the kitchen stuff out of the garage.

We also bought a new mattress!  We planned to buy a king mattress next year and put a Murphy bed in the small bedroom so we didn’t buy a new box springs or a new frame.  We went to Menards to get the wood for slats for the interim.  We spent a few days with our mattress on the floor in the living room, but I was oh so much closer to the coffee in the morning!

Our house sure does look different than it did
this time last year.  No orange shag carpeting!