Day 7 – 8
Naturally, after a looooong, dreary weekend of rain, Monday morning, 09/14/20, dawned dry and sunny just in time for my brother to leave Legacy for his drive back home. He headed west for Arkansas, while I headed northeast in the rental car we’d picked up in Corinth, MS, earlier in the weekend. Another late model Nissan Altima, which I liked. I made a run to Costco in Brentwood, TN, to pick up my new glasses, but before that I stopped in at my friend Judy Snow’s house in Franklin, TN, for a delicious lunch she prepared especially for me. The weather was perfect to dine out on her screened-in back porch and we had a nice visit to catch up. Steve Linn stayed back on Legacy while the service guys from Aqua installed our new washer/dryer. Initially we’d thought the old unit had been replaced by the original owners back in 2014 or so, but Steve said that when the old unit was removed, they discovered it was the original unit from 1999, when the boat was actually built. No wonder it was starting to make strange noises and leak!
On Tuesday, 09/15/20, we used Aqua’s courtesy vehicle to return my rental car back to Enterprise in Corinth. Something we discovered with this car was that it has a degree of self-driving ability. Its cruising function not only provided speed control, it also provided steering! This was novel to both of us, as we’d never driven a car with this feature. We did discover, however, that we were not allowed to remove both hands from the steering wheel while in cruise mode without being loudly admonished by an annoying beeping sound. One of the odd things about this car was that it would intermittently turn off self-steering and then suddenly turn it back on again by itself. So you wouldn’t want to risk driving with no hands, even without the loud warning beep. It was almost like the car was saying “Psych!” every now and then. What a trickster… When we returned back at Legacy, I tried out the new washer/dryer, which I LOVE. One of the rules we’d made when moving onto this boat was to bring only clothing that was made with wash and wear fabrics, so no ironing or dry-cleaning would ever by required. Well…. the first mate followed that rule, but the captain did not, and ended up with cotton shirts and shorts that do not come out of the dryer wrinkle-free. UGH. So, guess who gets to iron on the boat after all! We found a tiny ironing board onboard, and I bought a tiny, travel-sized steam iron from Walmart.
While I ironed, Steve figured out what was causing our persistent tiny fly problem in the master head. He cleaned out a clogged sump pump underneath the floor and our “drain fly” problem was eradicated. After his successful plumbing adventure, he put on his chef’s hat and prepared a huge crock-pot full of delicious red beans and rice for dinner. YUM!
Position: N 34° 59.481, W 88° 14.830
Total Marina Nights: 5
Total Nights at Anchor: 3