How Sweet It Is

     When we left the marina on Monday we went to one of our favorite gunkholes, Millstone Point on the west fork of Langford Creek.  Being that it was a holiday weekend, there were 3 boats still on the hook in the area of Millstone Point, but our hole was available - thank you kindly.  One boat, Metagene was there, and it's crewed by our friends Rick and Pam.  It's always a pleasure to see them again.  They hung around for the afternoon and then went south for one last night on the hook at another anchorage before returning home the following day, Tuesday.  By 5 o'clock the other 2 boats had left, and we had the anchorage to ourselves.  Monday was very hot.  Across the bay at Baltimore they had a temperature reading of 99 degrees.  Sharon said the swimming was not very refreshing because the water had to be in the 80's.

       Tuesday we moved the boat to another favorite anchorage that we use when we need to catch a breeze to cool off the boat - Comegys Bight on the Chester River.  Another very hot day and once again Sharon went swimming in waters that were a little cooler than the waters of Langford Creek.  I on the other hand took extra showers to cool off because of a case of bronchitis.  

       Wednesday was our day of truth.  Time to test the new water maker.  We had decided to wait until the Chester River to draw water for the watermaker because Chester has less sediment floating in it. We started the watermaker and ran it to purge the storage chemicals from in the unit.  After 20 minutes we tapped our first glass of "RO" (reverse osmosis) water.  I must admit that first glass was very good.  We ran the watermaker for 4 hours and made about 36 gallons of water - how sweet it is.

Our first glass of home brewed water!