Here we go again

Ray got up at 3:30 a.m. and made a pot of coffee.  The winds started whipping again after a calm night's sleep up until this point.  The storm lasted only about 20 minutes, but by that time he was wired on caffeine.  He attempted going back to bed only to have it start raining again at about 5:30 a.m.  He just stayed up after we shut the windows again.  Our bimini top is still leaking so Ray was nice enough to put a tarp over top of it this morning to keep some rain out of the helm station.  It was quite a wet and buggy mess this morning.  Hopefully we can get more waterproofing on it soon and solve that problem.
Once it was light enough Ray could see that there was a tow on the mooring cells we can see from this anchorage.  We wondered why it would be sitting there all morning, then we remembered that when the last two pleasure boats exited Whitten Lock yesterday evening we heard the lockmaster say he lost power.  Maybe the power was out this whole time?
About the time we decided to leave at 8:00 a.m. the tow was finally moving toward the lock.  It rained some more on us for about 30 minutes.  Ray tried to catch up on some sleep.  About the only excitement today was seeing a turkey mingling with geese and goslings, an otter carrying it's baby to presumably a new home, and a couple of down bound tows to pass in the 300 foot wide ditch.
We docked at Aqua Yacht Harbor by early afternoon, went to the ships store, Ray washed off all the bugs while Linda went to the little grocery store down the road, then it was laundry time.  By time all of that was done we took the dinghy that Ray refueled over to the boat ramp to make a closer walk to dinner at Freddy T's.  We were initially excited to try the new restaurant here at the marina, but of course it is closed on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays for winter hours.  I'm sure they'll be open next Monday for the summer hours.