THE MONSOONS

The Vancouver Island winter 'monsoons' have begun. We've really been very lucky to have an extended autumn of decent weather, but it started to rain last night, and it hasn't stopped. Good thing Michael got the tarp rigged up over us! The marina parking lot has a plugged drain, too, and there's water gushing up out of it. . . may not be able to do anything about that until there's a break in the weather now. It's supposed to blow 35 knots on the Juan de Fuca tonight - we LOVE this kind of weather. People often call to invite us over when it's like this or to ask if we're warm enough - no, we don't want to come over, we LOVE it when we're cozy on our boat in a storm, and yes, we're plenty warm! It might be different if we were anchored out, but we're tied up to a dock and plugged in to power, so it doesn't take much electric heat to be 'toasty' when you have less than 400 sq ft to heat.