With the hull and deck completed I began work on the kayak coaming (the lip around the cockpit opening to which a spray skirt is attached) today. Progress is much slower without my little assistant. Not a single word from Minnesota which can only mean that Maya and Nico are having so much fun with their cousins that there is no time to call home. Jeanine and Kyle are having a great experience in California where the orientation at Santa Clara University is reported to be going very well. They left this evening for Lake Tahoe where they will spend the weekend with a friend of the family.