Uhhh, about that last post.....

With all the hubbub over the minor diversion of Hurricane Michael, what?, you say??, minor diversion?? Well actually it wasn't a minor diversion at all but a major destructive event in the history of Panama City and the surrounding areas and the peoples lives that live in and around us here. So here we are just about four months later and much of the area is still digging out and I mean literally digging!! It will be a very long time before things are anywhere near normal and even then it will be different from the way things were, a different normal.

My sweet wife and I were very blessed in that we had sold our house this past June and rented a condo out here near the beach where we were just grazed by the storm, so we didn't have any dealings with insurance companies over damage claims from the storm. For our house that is. The condo we're renting is only a few years old and a very sturdy poured concrete construction with all the latest hurricane windows and such so we suffered very little at all. The biggest thing we had to deal with, of course no water and no power, was waiting for the elevators to get fixed as we rent on the sixth floor!! I'll tell you what, these old knees didn't take that very well at all, no siree!! Well long story short and I know you will thank me for that, elevators now are working and clean up has progressed very nicely so far. Although one of the two golf courses out here may not return as there was major damage to it, but the other one, The Legends at Bay Point, a PGA quality one, is very close to reopening. I don't golf so it's just nice to walk the cart paths for exercise.

That brings me to the reason for this blog, (so you say). So I have sold one of my Glocks to get started buying plywood. Later this week either Wednesday or Thursday, I'll be heading to Lowes to search out some reasonable pieces of ply to start drawing out bulkheads and rudders and centerboards and other stuff. At least something will be started and perhaps soon there will be a boat that will take me out into the bay exploring all the little nooks and crannies of St Andrews Bay and the surrounding areas.

That's all for now.

Geoff