Blessings

• We have a good boat heater, even though we have to start the engine before it will turn on and Dwight has to lay prone on his belly reaching way down into the engine compartment in order to disconnect the battery charger each time we crank on the engine so we won't blow a fuse.

• All of a sudden our pants are too big for us, so, we think we have avoided being too big for our britches.

• Luckily, we have warm clothes because this morning,wearing an undershirt, a shirt, a sweater, a light jacket, a heavier hoodie, a scarf, my foul weather jacket, and gloves, I felt warmish although not hotish.

• I remembered to pack gloves even though I packed 2 pair of our worst....with holes, yet!

• There is a big grassy area for Yogi-dog to run off leash but we have to carry him to get there because he panics and freezes when he is on the dock as he sees water on his left, water on his right and water underneath him.  He hates being carried; he stiffens up, wraps his legs tightly around our arms, and I think, holds his breath until he is safely on land.

• We have wireless internet access here at the Groninger Motorboot Club so we don't have to go sit at McDonald's which, I am sure, makes its employees grateful because they don't have to listen to hard of hearing Dwight yell when he Skypes our credit union in the States.

•  When we moved the boat 5 minutes down the canal to the Motorboot Club, our engine purred nicely and the bow-thruster worked beautifully.  It was good to be chugging along a canal again.