First thing this morning, we headed up to the restaurant for breakfast. We had arranged for Luis the taxi driver to come pick Jim and Margaret up at 9am this morning and take them to the airport. He showed up at 8:30 at the restaurant so we wouldn't stress about whether he was going to show up. He's been like that - reliable and super helpful. He insisted that the store give us our money back for the failed Chinese generator, helped us find cedar wood needed to secure the new gas cans to the deck, and even escorted us through the grocery store - ever so carefully placing things in the grocery cart so that nothing was squashed. He is quite the character. For any of our friends still on the Panama City side, his number is 6596-3707.
And all too soon, it was time to say good bye to Jim and Margaret.
Melissa had figured on doing laundry today, alas the marina is completely without water due to a broken city water pipe. Nor can we wash the boat decks, dang it. Apsaras is very badly in need of a bath. This is getting to be a problem because a of this morning we were down to less than 10 gallons of fresh water in our tanks. Fortunately it did pour rain today so we were able to collect 50 gallons in our tanks. We are hoping for rain tomorrow as there is no way the broken pipe will be fixed on a Sunday.
MacGyver (yet again) fixed the ice maker. The plastic standoffs that hold the motor for the ice cube tray had broken due to the over-torque software bug Dave diagnosed months ago. So he put in a few more screws to hold the motor in place.
MacGyver began diagnosing the rear air conditioner unit, and found exactly what he had suspected he would find - that the blower motor had frozen up. Bummer as the forward air conditioner that we replaced had a blower motor that we could have used to fix the aft unit. The motor froze up back when we had the exhaust pipe leak and water got under the bed which in turn rusted the motor. He took the motor apart and sprayed it with some PB Blaster, and voila the motor works again! He will reassemble the unit tomorrow. Now its time for happy hour!
