2017 Life Logs, Day 72: Bracing for the Storm
Date: Monday, March 13, 2017
Weather: Still Sunny, Warming Slightly; High 32, Low 23 degrees F
Location: At Home in The Studio, Falmouth, MA
Maybe I’m hiding my head in the sand, but somehow, I can’t accept idea that we are going to have a major snow storm tomorrow. I keep looking at Weather Underground which leads me to believe we won’t get more than 2-3 inches of snow. That doesn’t seem so bad to me, but we shall see about that tomorrow morning. But even if we do get the snow, the temperature is supposed to rise to 40 degrees. I guess it is the wind that comes with a Nor’easter that causes problems with power outages. So I’m bracing for the storm, but not convinced it will be all that bad. I am planning to go out at 8 am for a scheduled blood test as part of a routine physical. Then maybe I’ll return home and get those emails written that I had planned to do today.
Magically, when I checked my bank online account this morning, it was working again. So I didn’t have to spend time at the bank. Instead I spent time scouting out the possibility of finding a new place to live—not because I don’t love it here, but because I feel like I am throwing money away by renting. Heather, Jed, and I have talked about combining finances to purchase a home with an in-law apartment where we would all live together. The other option is that I find a small home for just myself. I don’t know if either option will materialize, but I’m willing to spend time searching out possibilities. I contacted a realtor and will start looking tomorrow if weather permits, or on Wednesday if that Nor’easter makes travel a problem tomorrow.
I picked Jonah up from school at 3:30. Heather arrived home with Ollie and Sam at 4:30 and we finished dinner by 5:30 so Heather and Sam could head out to Woods Hole ASAP for a Scout tour of WCAI, the public radio station where Heather works. Jonah, Ollie, and I watched a YouTube video on making fast flying paper airplanes to prepare for Jonah’s Scout meeting at 6:30. The meeting was being held in the elementary school gym so that boys could make various types of paper airplanes and have plenty of room to test which ones fly further. The design we practiced before the Scout meeting on the YouTube video ended up to be a real winner.
I’ll end on what I consider a very sad note. When I got home from the Scout meeting, I turned on the TV to watch a health care town hall meeting with Senator Bernie Sanders in McDowell County, West Virginia. Bernie is such an honorable man and it made me so very sad to compare his leadership to that being provided by the present administration. But what really made me sad was the fact that the people attending the town hall meeting had voted for Donald Trump. They took Trump at his word during the campaign that he was going to make like better for them, but they are not seeing at this point that he is going to follow through on that promise. They seemed to feel abandoned, especially by the current push to replace Obamacare. Bernie really connects with people and watching the program tonight just made me wonder where we would be today if he had been elected President. I can’t help but believe that we would be moving forward in the right direction. And I certainly don’t feel that way under our current leadership.
