Day 279 Clean clothes.

I spent the morning and into the early afternoon getting the laundry done.  It takes more time than you think.  Sort, wash, dry and fold.  Plus the walk back to the boat, cart in hand.  While I may not be paranoid(or maybe I am),I don't like leaving the clothes unattended while they get washed and dried in someone elses laundry room.  I stayed through the entire cycle.  Four loads of wash and the same in driers.  

Meanwhile, Tracy cleaned house, or boat if you will.  She took out clothes from the cupboards where she stores them and found lots of mold all over the place.  Now there are more clothes to be washed.  We knew that there was a mold problem on Zephyr.  You can't live in a climate like this and not have it.  Every time we breathe, we expel more moisture into the the air.  Add that to an already moisture laden climate plus the effect of our heaters and voila, you get mold.  After lunch, we headed out to see if we could find a dehumidifier for Zephyr.  Given the size of Zephyr, we need something of decent size to really do a good job.  We hunted up and down the highway--Lowes(several at big $), Home Depot(out), Sears(bigger bucks), Fred Meyer(don't carry them), Target(don't carry them), Walmart(don't carry them).  I was amazed how many of the stores we went into that didn't carry them or were out.  Yes, we have had a lot of rain over the past few months with lots of flooding, but I would have thought that that would mean that more store would have them.  Now everyone had humidifiers--a dime a dozen for them, but DE-humidifiers were much harder to find.  In this kind of humidity, why would anyone buy a humidifier?  It's like selling a sun lamp to some one in Tahiti.  It's just not a necessity.  By the time we were done, the store with the best one at the lowest price was closed(Sunday night in a small town).  We'll be off today to get one.  We figure we will connect a hose to it to allow it to drain the moisture into the bilge and then it can be pumped overboard.  I can't see emptying a bucket every few hours.  We'll see how much water it gets out of Zephyr.  It has to make the mold more manageable(a good thing).

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