Juneau

We are running around trying to get the boat ready for guests. We figure Merlin needs to be in tip-top shape so we made an appointment with a dog groomer for 9:00 AM. She is about 10 miles away so we took a cab both ways. However, Merlin has nice clipped toenails and a trim to keep him from getting his hair matted behind his ears. Fred was out visiting with the fellows on the small (~ 27 foot) sport fishing boat next to us and found out that they are all Coast Guard. Very nice young men. Well, they came back from fishing this afternoon and said, “you want some crab?” We said heck yea and gave them a bucket. We gave them some fresh baked chocolate chip cookies in trade. We had no idea that they put five large crabs, all cleaned and ready for cooking. Looks like we have fresh crab for our company now.