Day 146, Year 11: Searching Housing Possibilities
Date: Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Weather: Overcast, Hi Temp 40’s F
Location: At Home with the Goldstones, East Falmouth, MA
We spent a bit of today searching housing possibilities in Falmouth. Heather pointed out that no matter what I saw, I immediately found something wrong with it. She’s right, but this is difficult. Finding something, actually anything in Falmouth that is in any way suitable and affordable, is not easy. The cost of housing here is 44 per cent higher than the national average and our budget, at least until Windbird is sold, is quite limited. So the search will continue. We are also going to see if there is any place we can find a slip for Windbird. There is only one place where she can stay in the water for the winter and that is Fiddler’s Cove where we have spent two of the past four winters. But their summer cost is quite high and the likelihood that they have an open slip for the summer is slim. The same is probably true for the two places that have a little dock space in Eel Pond in Woods Hole. But we will check. Mark does not feel that he has the energy to live out on a mooring, but living at a dock would work. So the search will continue.
Tomorrow we head back to the condo in Lowell. We will first stop to have lunch with my niece Lynn and then we will go to Mass General for Mark’s 3 pm appointment. I sure hope we come away with more answers than questions. After all, it is St. Patrick’s Day, and we are need of little good luck.
