Sometimes gassing up is a bad thing.

A number of us, not including the Murrays, go out today on a fishing boat and come back with salmon and halibut.  Tomorrow will be a group fish fry.

Martha mentions that a high electronic beep tone has been sounding all day from Janine’s trailer.  Janine and Bob are gone, with her dog.  We think it is an electronic alarm clock, a timer, the smoke alarm, the carbon monoxide alarm, or a propane alarm. Ironically this is the first caravan where the participants have not been provided each other’s cellphone numbers.  The trailer seems OK from the outside and there are no smells and we put up with it as a little annoying and go about our activities.  

Marcia, Martha and I go to lunch at a nice place called the Mermaid Café and then take a trip up Skyline Drive above Homer for quite a view of glaciers.  These houses here have unbelievable views.  Then, a bonus, we see a moose.

Janine and Bob return about 4 PM and find their trailer filled with the smell of propane – an oven burner has somehow (no finger pointing) been left on without a flame all day long.  It could easily have been a disaster if the refrigerator had been on gas and tried to ignite, or the hot water heater had been left on and ignited.

The lesson?  We in the campground should have turned off her propane supply at the tanks in case it was the propane alarm we were hearing, but the obvious for some reason did not occur to us.  The other lesson: this is another reason the caravan drivers manual should contain the cellphone numbers of all participants, and this one did not.

On the good side, nothing bad happened.

For my own account today, I do some minor but important home repairs – tighten two cabinet hinges, tighten a roof antenna threatening to fall off, and apply Lock-tite to the threads of a wine cork puller that has come apart.  The latter task, of course, was my priority.  (Didn't work, but a later attempt using epoxy was successful.)

Homer is the first name of the person credited with giving the town its start.  The AAA book claims he was an unsuccessful gold prospector.  The local tourist bureau says he was a con man that persuaded others to invest in his gold schemes.