Woke up this morning to clouds & 55 degrees. We had lunch up on the "patio" area & both had pastrami sandwiches with a side of German potato salad & beans & hocks. The pastrami is cooked & smoked here & so are the beans - it was delicious! We bought a couple of things at the store when we were done & got to meet the chef from the restaurant. He wanted to know what we had for dinner & gave us some info on why he made things the way he does. He's from Russia & used to be the chef here & left to start his own restaurant in Vancouver with smoked Louisiana type food. It burned down last year so he came back to Blind Channel. Lucky for everyone here!
I started some laundry (did one load & had another in the washing machine when we left). The 2nd load was the first time I tried to use warm/cold water rather than just cold. When we got back to the boat, the wash had barely moved in the cycle & Rod saw that the pump did not stop running. Turned out that we were totally out of water (& we hold 500 gallons)! We've been filling up with water when we can & also making water so Rod immediately went into diagnosis mode. Turned out the hot water valve to the washing machine was broken. Will have to be diagnosed when we get home but now I know that I will be using cold water only in the machine! Fortunately we're at a marina where we can refill the tank - plan had been to top off after my 3 loads of laundry was done, now it's totally refilling. It was a good thing that we discovered all of this here as we'll be totally dependent on our water maker while we're in the Broughtons. The water there is cedar water & has tanin in it, so everything comes out of the faucet brown.
This afternoon it started to rain & didn't get above 59 - a big change from yesterday.
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