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 Happy 2007! Let me try to catch up a bit on the last few weeks.

We had a very quiet Holiday season for the most part. It was just the two of us on Christmas eve. Nancy cooked a small standing rib roast for dinner. We read the Christmas story, exchanged gifts and turned in early. On Christmas Day, we invited a cruising couple from Australia to join us. Owen was born in Tasmania and Morina on the Island of Borneo.  They are refurbishing a boat in our marina before they head out once again toward the Southern Hemisphere. We roasted a small turkey with all the trimmings. Owen particularly like the corn casserole and has been talking about it ever since. It was a very enjoyable evening - sharing the celebration with new friends. On New Year's Eve, we joined Jay, Nicky and several other friends and neighbors aboard Victory. We spent the evening sampling a different small plate each half hour and taking turns as entertainment director. We started the evening with "who am I?", had a marlinspike competition led by Steve and Lisa, continued the annual "battle of the sexes" trivia challenge where the men finally scored their first victory, listened to old hit parade tunes, and enjoyed the company of new and old friends.

On New Year's Day, Nancy took her annual Polar Bear Swim, along with Morina. They joined other swimmers at North Beach and were the second ones to swim all the way out to pilings and back. It was a cold and rainy day so both girls were shivering by the time they got back into the car.  Later that evening, we drove to Annapolis with Nicky, Jay, Tessa and Jeff to hear a New Years Celebration concert by the Celtic Women and friends. The music was wonderful.

The holidays are behind us and life on Solitaire has returned to a fairly normal routine.  We put away all the decorations and have done some early Spring cleaning. Speaking of which, it has been more like Spring than Winter on the Chesapeake so far this year. El Nina is to blame no doubt. While the Pacific Northwest and Central Plains have been digging their way out of wind storms, floods and blizzards; our daily temperatures have been in the sixties and even the seventies - it is unheard of and will come to an end this next week according to weather forecasters.