Family

Dana has an aunt with whom she is currently staying.  She and Dana get on wonderfully.  Aunt is a country club type.  Married into the Zeppa oil family (Dana is Dana Zeppa Schubert).  The company was a boom/bust kind of thing with Keating Zeppa in charge during the latter part.  Dana's Aunt was married to him until he died a while back.  All that is prelude to her visiting and enjoying the perks of country club membership and lunch with the Rose Festival Queen contestants.  AKA, one of my inner circles of hell.

I have to watch the dogs.  Aunt has two standard Poodles who probably eat steak at the table with napkins tucked into their collars.  I'd so much love to visit too but I need to do my hair.

Keating had a sailboat.  I've never seen it but I think it is pretty good size.  Moored since long before he died at a dock in lake Tyler.  Knowing what I do about boats I'm sure it is barely salvageable and, if so, for a bunch of money.

Dana texted me and said that Aunt didn't want to sell the boat but was offering it to me for free.

I'm pretty sure she wouldn't be able to give the boat away.  Maybe could sell it to someone on a coast for a few bucks but likely not even that.

If I were in my 20s I'd look at it.  Now I wouldn't even get close enough to count the wasp nests.  

There are few things I'd like to do more than go out on the blue water on a good sailboat for a day or two.  Or sail over to the the Caribbean from Florida.  But a man has to know his limitations.

I'll just stay here and mind the dogs, thank you very much.