Sockmonkey visits Gannimal house day 5

One thing I forgot to mention in last posting was that when Sailor Dan came home from work on Tuesday he had very sad news about one of his shipmates, she had been in a domestic dispute with her boyfriend and she ended up dying from her injuries. So terrible, also ironic as before we went east I had just finished a 40 hour training with my local YWCA on how to be a domestic violence volunteer. Such an unnecessary loss. RIP sweet sailor. Anyhow back to my travel-log. Wednesday Sailor Dan went off to dry dock to do more scrapping and sweeping on the Truman. Sockmonkey and all the household wrangled up the loads of laundry and headed off to the laundromat. It was going to take awhile so we wandered down the street to a second hand store. Sockmonkey had the idea that we might find something interesting to bring back and sell at August Moon. Dave really got excited over some antique salt and pepper shakers, tiny and cute and a bargain at $1.50. We also found some neat metal plaques that were wine themed and advertising Sonoma and Napa which went great with the other wine pictures and plaques Tiff is decorating her kitchen with. By this day almost starting to feel like locals with all the driving around we did in the Nissan Versa, what a great little car. Although Sockmonkey still didn't feel quite brave enough to wander out on his own without someone from Gannimal house to direct us. Laundry finished, almost dinner time by now so home to have another great evening with everyone. To be continued...