Chris and I are still in the marina for a few more days. Hurricane Beryl continues to beat down on the islands south of us and reports are starting to come in of the damages and casualties. Weather here still looks favorable to head east and north beginning on Friday. We’ve been wanting to visit Cat Island but problems with the watermaker put our plans with on hold a month earlier. Now that the watermaker is working again, and the weather is unbearably hot, and hurricane season has already exceeded early expectations, moving out of the zone is getting more attractive by the minute.
We got some laundry done, watered a neighboring cruiser’s plants and took the rental car to get a new phone for Chris, groceries at several markets that had gotten their weekly shipment in this morning, and ate lunch at Peace and Plenty overlooking aqua colored water and Monument Island. Our waitress at the pool bar, Rashanda, made the tastiest and most beautiful frozen beverages. We discussed with her climate change and the rapid gentrification of the islands by the uber-wealthy (greedy) “foreign investors” as Chris and I split an order of delicious fish tacos and enjoy the music, breeze and view. Ashva, a gentleman who also works there, tells us he is friends and family to several famous Bahamian music artists, including D Mac, whose song was currently playing, and the late Johnny Kemp.
It’s still close to 90 degrees outside, so even after showing this morning, sweat still drips out of every pore as we dart from stop to stop until the chores are complete. But it’s worth it, because at the end of the day, we have two refrigerators and a freezer full of food that should last us a week, at least, and clean sheets, towels and fresh clothes and underwear. Including four bottles of our favorite non-dairy coffee creamer. And our hearts are full from spending another day in paradise with wonderful people of the island of Exuma.
As those back home prepare for Fourth of July celebrations, democrats are wringing their hands over Biden’s fitness to run after a not-that-surprising lousy debate performance, and Trump’s supreme cult injustices continue to decimate the American Dream and the freedoms our Constitution’s framers envisioned, the irony of the upcoming Independence Day is not lost on me. Instead of celebrating tyranny being foisted upon us by a corrupted two-party system, this is a time to seriously reconsider our need for independence from the duopoly and the death grip the Trump-loyal republicans have on our state once and for all. As an Independent currently running to unseat the republican incumbent who fails to represent me and my neighbors in the in the Kentucky House and the first, if not only, candidate on the ballot with a plan to #StopProject2025inKY, I declare this years’ holiday not Independence Day, but Independents’ Day!
Today’s To-Dos
- Apply for cannabis dispensary license lottery
- Submit documentation to Commonwealth Attorney’s office regarding incident at Bishop Lyons table
- KREF Reports
- Continue pulling recordings off phone and organizing files to get them ready for publication
- Launch Independents Day campaign
