2026 Life Logs, Day 195: Back to Work
Date: Tuesday, July 14, 2026
Weather: Partly Cloudy and Windy; High Temp 786 Low 71 degrees F
Location: At Home with My Shadow, Falmouth, MA
I was all over the place today. I had a 10 am Board of Library Trustees meeting that unexpectedly lasted until noon. I flew home to eat breakfast/lunch, and was then off to see my sister. I did not get to see her yesterday, but she was great today. When I left she was going on a virtual field trip to see the tall ships in Boston. The Life Enrichment folks at Bridges are amazing. They keep the residents engaged in creative activities all day every day.
While sitting outside with my sister, I sent a text to my friend Karen Baranowski asking about Peter. He had a knee replacement last week and it was a rough week for both Karen and Peter, with very little sleep for either one of them and a lot pain on Peter’s part. But in response to my text early this afternoon, she said they are back on track and invited me to stop by on my way home from seeing my sister at Bridges. So, I did. Karen and I had alone time on the porch to ‘debrief’ while Peter was inside working with the physical therapist. I was so glad to see first-hand that they both doing fine now.
Then I was off to the grocery store to buy things for a taco dinner with the Goldpebbles. Heather had Select Board tonight starting at 5:45 pm and was still going strong at 11:20 pm when I turned the local FCTV broadcast of the meeting off. I was watching because there was a presentation and then a vote tonight to put the debt for the proposed East Falmouth Library project on the November ballot. Jed had a Board of Health meeting beginning at 5:30. So, I was in charge of dinner for the boys. I dropped the groceries at Heather and Jed’s and took Ollie to the Falmouth Country Club for a golf lesson at 5 pm. Then I went home to play with and feed Shadow and pick up more supplies for dinner. Back to pick up Ollie and then to Heather and Jed’s to fix dinner. Sam had just arrived home when Ollie and I got there. He went to Boston today to see the Amerigo Vespucci tall ship and was headed back out to play soccer at the high school and pick up Jonah and bring him home after Jonah’s soccer practice. Jonah and Sam got home around 8:15 pm, just as Ollie and I were eating dinner. The sweaty soccer players both took a shower and joined us and then Jed got home to have a late dinner with us as well. I call these busy Monday nights at the Goldstones ‘rolling’ dinners. Something tells me things are getting back to normal. This kind of ‘all over the place’ day sounds very normal to me!
