2017 Life Logs, Days 159: A Visit to Quissett Harbor and More
Date: Thursday, June 8, 2017
Weather: Mostly Sunny AM, Partly Cloudy PM, Still Cool
Location: At Home in The Studio, Falmouth, MA

Despite the continued coolish weather, there was a little sunshine this morning for my visit to Quissett Harbor. This is the harbor where Mark I lived aboard Windbird for three summers. I have only been back there twice since Mark died. That made it one of those happy-sad times. Today’s visit was the longest of my visits as I was attending a two-hour photo shoot with the Falmouth Newcomer’s Shutterfly group. I have now joined the Newcomers Club and the photo shoot was my first official club activity. The leader of the group is a professional photographer and I thought it would be interesting to learn more about the art of taking ‘perfect’ photos. Today we focused on the positives of using a tripod and certain lens filters. I refused to use a tripod because I know I’ll never take the time to use one even though I know they can be helpful in stabilizing the camera. I have a UV filter and a polarizing filter, but I stopped using them about a year after I bought them in Singapore. I just found it too much trouble to put them on and take them off depending on the situation, but I will dig them out and try them again. I don’t think I got any award winning photos today, but it was fun to try.

I came home to work on the family history project and eat lunch. I ate lunch, but I ended up watching the Comey hearing and not getting much genealogy work done. Then I headed out to meet Lynda, the friend from the gym who is a member of Newcomers Club and leads a biking group. She was at the photo shoot and invited me to come biking. Since I didn’t go to the gym this morning, I took her up on the offer. There was only one other woman who came today and we rode our bikes on the bike path from downtown Falmouth to Woods Hole. It is a 4-mile trek, so 8 miles round trip. At one point, Lynda checked her speedometer and we were riding between 8 and 10 miles per hour. Since I haven’t ridden a bike for any distance since the 1980’s, I felt good that I made it successfully. Lynda and the other woman rode on when we got back to our starting point, but I decided to call the ride a win and try a longer distance at a slower pace the next time. I feel like I should build up stamina slowly and not push it too hard.

It was an active day. I came home from the biking and launched back into the family history project. I’m making a little progress each day, but it is slow, slow work. Even so, I love it and will continue tomorrow morning. Unfortunately for Sam and Jonah, tomorrow is supposed to be rainy. They were supposed to have their annual school field day tomorrow. It has been postponed until Friday, June 23, and they won’t get to attend as we will be in West Virginia. I know they are disappointed, especially Sam since this is his last year in that school. Hopefully we’ll have enough fun in West Virginia to make up for missing field day and the last day of school.

All that is on my schedule tomorrow is more family history work and attending Ollie’s preschool graduation tomorrow evening. Can’t believe that little one is going to be in kindergarten next year.