Feels Like Spring

March 16th (Monday)

Today was a spectacularly, beautiful day!! It was the nicest day we have had, probably since around the end of September last year. It was clear blue sky; the sun gets quite high in the sky now, well above the mountains, and we get sun well into the evening. 
When the breeze calmed off in the afternoon it became glassy calm, and it was warm enough to sit outside on the dock in just a light, long-sleeved shirt. I was barefoot, and Jason was in a t-shirt; it really felt like a perfect spring day. 

While we were outside enjoying the weather, we saw a marten come out of the bush and onto the rocks along the shoreline. He went hopping along from rock to rock, and stopped occasionally to look around. He was so cute from a distance, and we are very glad that the marten has stopped coming around our boat. It has been a long time now since we have heard any little feet on our deck at night, and there have been no signs that it has been around at all.  
We went to work for a 1/2 hour this morning, just to install a plug in an old 4” dryer vent hole. We put in some insulation and then stuck in a plug with some PL Premium. We will go back tomorrow when it has cured to do the first coat of fairing filler so that it will be at the same stage as the rest of our patches.  
We also went out in Kiki and set both our crab, and our prawn trap, today, and it was actually not freezing cold as we had planned for out on the water. Hopefully it will be calm and sunny, like it was this afternoon, for us to be able to go out and do some fishing tomorrow.  

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