Day 248, Year 6 Playing Catch-up
Date: Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Weather: Cloudy Early, Sunny Afternoon, Temp 74 degrees F
Location: Eel Pond, Woods Hole, Massachusetts
Even though I have spent much of this year doing long passages and sitting still, sitting still is not something I do very well. I love it on passages as it gives me the chance to edit photos and correspond with friends and family, but now that we are not headed to some new and exciting place, the concept of sitting still is a bit of a challenge. I was not needed to babysit today and Mark had his first day at work, so I had the day all to myself. It has taken me most of the day to come to grips with that reality and now I am playing catch-up. I have hardly had time to read an email much less respond to any since we arrived in the Carolinas over a month ago. And photos have gone totally by the wayside. So I have plenty to do, I just needed a little redirection.
We have been using Heather’s old Honda Civic that she has driven for the past fourteen years while waiting for the paperwork to be processed so we can drive the car that we bought jointly with Heather and Jed on Sunday. I call Heather’s old car the “rumble bumble” because it has been in desperate need of a new muffler and some body work to control the encroaching rust. After taking Mark to work at West Marine, I took the car to Midas to get the muffler work done, but that left me without a vehicle. So I walked a short distance to the mall where I could catch the summer trolley to Woods Hole. It runs every half hour which makes it quite convenient and it only costs seniors $1.00 per trip. I ran into Jed in Woods Hole when I got off the trolley and he said the drop-off of the boys at summer camp didn’t go very smoothly. Jonah didn’t want mommy to leave so he cried and then Sam got upset because Jonah was upset. It’s the way with little ones, but Heather was upset about having to leave them and wanted to make sure she left work in Woods Hole right at 12:45 to go pick them up. I came back out to the boat but then went back in at 12:45 to get a ride to town. I wanted to tell Mark that he would be riding the trolley home this evening and I really didn’t want to call him on his first day of work. And it gave me a good excuse to go with Heather and Jed to see Sam and Jonah. Soon I will be the one picking them up from summer camp and it is important to ease them into this, especially Jonah who is going through an “I can’t live without mommy” phase. I accomplished my missions and returned once again to Woods Hole on the trolley.
While enroute from Woods Hole to Falmouth, I got a call from Claire Wiklund. We met Claire and Dick when we lived aboard in Boston. Dick is a physician and was working at Mass General Hospital. He and Claire lived in Boston during the week staying on their boat and then headed home to the Cape on the weekends. Since then Dick has retired and they live permanently on the Cape except when traveling in their motor home. Recently Dick was instrumental in helping us get an appointment at Mass General for Mark. This morning they happened to be in West Marine and saw Mark. Claire has kept up with our voyage by reading the logs and she invited us to dinner on Saturday night to hear some of the stories in person. We’ll be looking forward to that as she is fantastic cook and it will be great to hear about their land travels in the past year two years.
I haven’t seen an update on the wild fire in New Mexico, but Justin called mid-day to say that he, Jo, and Ziggy were heading south to Albuquerque to catch their flight to England. First they fly to Dallas and then to New York or Boston before heading across the Atlantic. In the end, they left everything behind in hopes that there will be no nuclear disaster as a result of the fire. They return home in a month. We hope they have a non-eventful trip to England and really enjoy their month there with Jo’s family.
