Boat, Play and Model Homes

Saturday morning continued this winter's bright and sunny days, and I headed down to the harbor to work on the boat with Dennis while Carolyn headed off in other directions for other chores. It was warm in Dana Point even though one could feel the fog hovering offshore less than a mile out.

I polished the stainless steel stanchions and re-stained the teak handrails while Dennis worked on cleaning the transom and the interior. We fixed the drain on the sink, re-wrapped rigging tape on turnbuckles, and a myriad other little chores before Steve came down around 3 and we both hauled Dennis up the mast in our bosun's chair to check out the spreaders and take down the wind indicator so it can be replaced. Dennis gave a show to a three year old passenger on an adjacent boat who was fascinated at how high he was.

After stopping by Wanda's briefly, I headed home for dinner and a shower before we left for the play "Hitchcock's Blondes" at SCR with tickets courtesy of Lewis. We had turned down dinner with Chris and Pattie to see the play which turned out to be a bad decision.

The play resolved around an unfinished early film by Hitchcock and an attempt to decipher the film from individual frames recovered from the deteriorating celluloid. But the '19 year-old' film student, threw around the F-bomb as verb, adverb, adjective and noun so much that we felt assaulted. Added to the profanity were continuing references to sexual acts as either the film professor tried to seduce the student or 'Hitchcock' tried the same or to degrade his leading lady's body double. We felt more and more uncomfortable so that we finally left our front row seats and walked out before the intermission! Today's OC Register's review would indicate that the reviewer, at least, was unaffected by any of that, a warning that we need to be vigilant in our entertainment choices.

Sunday morning we drove into Irvine near the former Tustin blimp hangers to check out a couple of model homes for interior design and master bath research. We'd received an initial design for a remodel of our bath and master closet late last week and we wanted to see how the newer homes were incorporating some of the features we want. Priced modestly in the low $1 millions (cough, cough), these nearly 3000 sq. ft. homes gave us ideas on the size we need for both bath and closet and a possible upstairs laundry room. We took pictures showing large tubs, transitions from stone to wood, and vanities both dual and his/hers. We have a bit more research to do on both layout and materials although I laid out the proposed size of the bath on our bedroom floor using books to show where corners and fixtures were. Carolyn enjoyed my hands on display.

The rest of Sunday we enjoyed painting (Carolyn), watching some of the Olympics (Tor), and church (both). We may also have contemplated how much different the two coasts were this weekend with 85 degrees in our neck of the woods while New York city got 26 inches of snow. Viva California!