2026 Life Logs, Day 134: Sam is Home 🙂 🙂 🙂
Date: Thursday, May 14, 2026
Weather: Overcast with Rain; High Temp 57, Low 49 degrees F
Location: At Home with My Shadow, Falmouth, MA
I was up at 4:15 am this morning and on the road before 5 am, but still Sam’s flight landed 10-15 minutes before I got to the airport. He was waiting for me in the pick up area when I got there and we were back home by 8:30 am. It was a good trip. And all the way home I got hear about his two weeks out west road tripping with his friend Ethan and Ethan’s 5-month-old Australian Sheperd, Cosmo. Unfortunately, Sam had stomach flu with a fever this past weekend and into this week which slowed them down a bit, but Sam still had a positive experience. I think he was more excited about seeing the Pacific Ocean for the first time than any other one thing. Other highlights were parts of the Olympic Peninsula reminded him of Maine, the beauty of northern Idaho, and Montana’s big, beautiful, blue sky. On the scary side, they had a bear come close to their campsite one night, but they got in the car and the bear crashed into the woods taking a couple of small trees with him. I think maybe the bear was more afraid of them than they were of him. Sam is now looking forward to sleeping in a bed once again (versus on the ground camping) and resting up a bit before going to work for the summer. He is missing the new friends he made while in the Netherlands, but they do keep in close contact via text. He is not completely sure what his plans are beyond the summer, but for now we’ll just enjoy having him back on home territory for a while.
I spent some time reading for tomorrow’s class today, attending an Indivisible Zoom meeting, and tonight I went to another Meet Your Local Candidates night, this one sponsored by the Falmouth Dems. These were all candidates running in the town election and none of these positions are party-affiliated. I saw them all answer questions at the League of Women Voters candidates’ night but hearing them a second time was very helpful. The current long-time Town Clerk, who is retiring, opened the evening with a rousing call to action. He said that living in these times, no one can let themselves sit at home and not become involved. He challenged us to reach out to every person of voting age in Falmouth, convincing them of the importance of casting their votes. And then making sure they get to the polls.
