The Rain, and Things Built

It poured with rain this morning. I hoped that it might be raining less in Pembroke, so I took Theo there for a walk. But it was not raining less. It was not raining so hard that the Commons were flooded, as has happened a few times this winter, though I did end up rather cautiously driving through a giant puddle that ran right across the road.

Everyone else was driving through it and there was no easy way to wimp out by the time I saw it with traffic behind me, so I just aimed at the middle and hoped. And made it!

Theo and I went for a very short walk and soon agreed that it was too wet for walking. We went to a cafe instead.( Dog, castle, and mirror dinghy )

Most of the paint is just flaky old paint, but there's something else going on here along the metal keel band.  Old epoxy, possibly? Will see what happens when I remove it.