http://www.cruising.ca/day logs/docs/DL_03278.html Position: 44°00.1025 North 076°59.4643 WestMarch 26 to March 31, 2008 Earliest entries posted first. Click on the thumbnail picture for a full screen image
CFB Trenton Date: 9:00 AM EDT Saturday 15 March 2008
Condition: Fog Pressure: 100.7 kPa Visibility: 0.2 km Temperature: 1.2°C Dewpoint: 1.1°C Humidity: 99
Marine Forecast issued for Lake Ontario. Issued: 3.00 AM EDT Saturday 15 March 2008 for the period ending at 3.00 AM Sunday with an outlook for the following 24 hours. Forecast: Wind light and variable becoming west 10 knots this morning then increasing to 15 this afternoon. Wind veering to north this evening. Chance of showers with fog and mist patches ending this morning then fair. Waves 1 metre or less. Outlook..Moderate northerlies.
This is a time to cool.
March 26, 2008
The apartment is OK with boundaries established and the downstairs neighbors slowly paying up for the damage to my car.
The wild cats have deserted Defiance. The wildcats have gone feral, found in a number of sunny or sheltered nooks around the “left over”. Both of them were socializing Sunday and they are healthy. There was nowhere safe to leave them food, so cat life was a feast. Fortunately, the weather is turning and the ice will leave the channel in a week or two.
Bruce the new owner is of Defiance cleaning with no space for cats and they know it. Cat tracks showed little traffic around Defiance and not a cat seen. Would they be better off in the city with me than wild. Who am I to judge, Sweetie had almost 18 months aboard as part of the family and returned to the feral life.
 Serendipity the mother cat is friendly and used to visit when we would froze in on Defiance. She is however extremely wild and would never make the indoor transition. No; I would have to split them up were I to act interfere. Perhaps if there were country property where they could have a barn it would be Ok, but for now one must not mess in tail matters.
March 30, 2008
Spring has not quite cleansed the marina of its snowy blanket yet, however there are many signs of life. People are comming back and Mike has the cover off the Amel and Bruce was stripping Defiances cover prior to the move.
The cats
 
All is well with the felines of this story. Serendipity and Sweetie are looking good and seem none the worse for loosing their home. Or perhaps that is being a feral cat. Rufus on the other hand d seems to enjoy the pampered suburban life and is quite content to lounge in his window. With the snow nearly gone he has begun to bring home entertainment in the form of city mice which look quite different than the field mice I am used to. I do so wish he would do his cat thing outside but such seems an impossible dream for a cat cohabited.
Defiance will pass into history in a few more days and thus ends the chapter of these Blogs. The new owners have begun the process and it is their voyage from here on out. We wish them the best.
Kingston Town
Your editor has not given u.p boating only sold a boat. Sunday brought a visit to Kingston Chris, Diane, Ruth and Mark who are living aboard there this winter. My being here was so close, yet so far. Visiting marinas is a dangerous time as in my mind I am currently without boat or a home and wandering a boat yard on a sunny day with bucks in my jeans is high risk. Particularly where there are so many interesting species to observe. Of all of them I like the John HHenry but she is a working boat with little room for living let alone being steel.
Chris has the super skateboard running again even if the dock is the only dry ground.
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