Fall is officially here!

If anyone here knows me, they know that I am not happy about this at all. Leaving the summer season is hard on so many levels. I am surely going to miss the heat. I have been in Montana since I was 3 years old and I am not sure where I have gotten my love for the summer season but I do not have the same love of the other 3. As a little girl I would find a patch of sun on the rug and lay there listening to music with those big round headphones on my head. I would follow the patch of sun as it moved. Nothing has changed except that this little girl has grown up and now dons a bikini and the headphones, with the help of technology, have gotten smaller.
We have come down to a time frame now of having to get the sailboat out of the water. We try to get in as many last sails as we possibly can. We will also try to be one of the very last on the schedule to pull her out. But life keeps on happening and we end up with different weekend activities to do.
This last Monday Mark and I were able to sneak on down to the marina and get in a fantastic sail. I picked up some steaks and sprouts on our way and Mark grabbed a bottle of wine.

One of the finer accessories that we have on the boat is our marine grill. We absolutely love this thing. We can cook without dirtying a pan. Also any fresh catch can go straight to the grill. The quality taste of the food is also so much better. We found ours on Craigslist because we just can't see paying top dollar for anything, with so many used items available out there. We paid half price for our grill and it had never been used.

The sunset was incredible and the winds were light. We got into a little channel where we were doing about 1.5 knots and fired up the grill and ate under sail. Life is good. Once out of the channel we cleaned up the meal and picked up again to about 4 knots. We pulled into the slip just after dark. We said farewell to New Girl and headed home wondering when our next sail will be.