Meanwhile on land...

...we have food growing.  I planted this "galine" eggplant back in Tallahassee and moved the pot down with me.  

It recently began blooming and now we have a baby eggplant growing, along with many more flowers opening up for pollination. 

Andy brought this basil - there are actually three of them in the pot, but two were just cut way back since they were getting leggy.  The flowers are attracting tiny ants and wasps.  We haven't seen any bees yet.  

We raked back the red mulch that the landlord had dumped on top of everything in the front bed, tore out the bits of grass growing, added mushroom compost, leveled the bed, and planted "lemon" cucumber seeds.  Almost 100% germination, thinned them a bit today.  

Andy's bird's eye pepper is flowering and fruiting like crazy!  A little hard to see in this bright picture, but there's a white flower towards the left and little green oval fruits at the top of several stems.  We also planted a poblano pepper and a Jimmy Nardello (sweet) pepper. 

And in the back is a patch of "delectable" corn.  These seeds also had close to 100% germination, underwent some thinning today, and are growing quickly.  

5-28.

Last day in Tallahassee. Sailing at Dickerson Bay. Wind, high tide, my favorite person, fiddler crabs, horseshoe crabs, a cormorant, a butterfly, sun, warm water, sand. 

We tacked away from the landing until we reached the grassy beach where our maiden launch party stopped to eat lunch last September.  

We went for a swim, then sat on a sandy patch of beach where we encountered a pretty white butterfly. 

After much convincing that we wouldn't capsize or get lost at sea, Andy took the helm on the way home.  We let the sail out and moseyed back to the landing under light winds.    

Now there's a tropical storm covering Florida, and the rain is very welcome, watering in our newly planted cucumber and corn seeds.  Glad I had a last sunny sailing day before moving!