Day 276, Year 11: Disaster Area
Date: Sunday, July 24, 2016
Weather: Beautiful Summer Day—Sunny and Cooler; High 78 degrees F
Location: At Home in The Studio #8, Falmouth, MA
This apartment is an absolute disaster area, but fantastic progress has been made in emptying out our storage unit. Lee is steadfast in that we will have everything out of the storage unit before he leaves here next week. His goal is to make sure that we do not have to pay another month of storage, so today we brought seven more plastic bins from storage here and took other items to Heather’s. This small apartment has taken in about as much extra ‘stuff’ as it can and still allow us to walk around. There are plastic bins everywhere. But we just need one more full day to finish the job of emptying the storage unit and that will be on Tuesday. Since we don’t have to go to Boston on Wednesday, Heather asked me to trade my ‘off’ day to Tuesday as she needs to work on Wednesday. We switch gears this week from swim lessons to daily classes at the Science School in Woods Hole. It is a challenging schedule in that Sam has class from 10:15 to 11:45 and then Jonah has class from 12:00 to 1:30. That means hanging out in Woods Hole for a good chunk of the day. My day starts at 7:45 am at Heather’s tomorrow as she has to get to Woods Hole and be on the air by 9 am. So I will be up and out of here by 7:30, leaving the disaster area for Mark, Lee, and Mary Ellen to negotiate.
We spent all of this afternoon moving things out of the storage unit, but at 5:15 pm we stopped and headed over to the baseball field to watch a Falmouth Commodores game. Heather and boys were there and we all really enjoyed the game. The Commodores are a summer collegiate team that plays in the Cape Cod League. There are ten such leagues in the entire country and the Cape Cod League is the premier league. Luckily for us, going to see them is just a short walk down the street. All of us enjoyed the game, but Jonah and Lee were our real enthusiasts. Jonah wants to be a catcher when he grows up and at age 75, Lee still plays baseball and softball on a regular basis. And this evening he enjoyed the game so much that he will go to the next home game on Wednesday. I really enjoyed the game, but one of the highlights for me was the osprey nest at the top of one of the field lights. When the sun went down and the lights went on, the juvenile osprey peaked their heads up out of the nest to see what was going on. Go Commodores and go osprey!
