2021 Life Logs, Day 111: Work and Play with the Goldpebbles
Date: Wednesday, April 21, 2021
Weather: Partly Cloudy, Windy, Very Little Rain; High 63, Low, 34 degrees F
Location: At Home in The Cottage, East Falmouth, MA
Today was a work and play day with the Goldpebbles. I picked up Sam, Jonah, and Ollie late morning and brought them to the cottage. Play was first on the list. Jonah, who is not as much of a water baby as Sam and Ollie, took off on a scooter, while Sam and Ollie launched the kayaks for the first time this year. But because it was so windy, Sam tried to sail his kayak with his towel. When that didn’t work, Ollie came back to the dock to ask me if I could get him a stick and a piece of material. He wanted to try to sail his kayak. Sam yelled back to say, “Get two sticks.” So, I returned to the dock with a mop handle, a hefty garden stake, a table cloth, and some rope. Sam lashed the two poles together, found a way to tie on the tablecloth, and off they went. First Ollie and then Sam sailed their kayaks. I think it was as much fun to watch as it was doing it. They wanted to sail downwind but ended up sailing on a beam reach. But the important thing is that they sailed and had fun doing it!
Ollie is usually my worker, but we gave him a pass today as the work involved digging a trench to bury irrigation hose and hefting heavy bags of compost. He had to have the fluid drained from his knee again, so heavy work didn’t seem like the order of the day for him. But Sam dug the trenches and hefted bags of compost for Jonah who raked the piles of compost into my raised beds. We did some of this yesterday, but I realized I needed more compost. They did a great job. We had a late lunch that I picked up at Le Bonjour, went back outside to finish up the work, and then headed into town for Sam’s 3 pm hair cut appointment. Ollie and Jonah played on the library lawn while we waited for Sam and then we made our first visit of the year to the Dairy Queen. The boys had Blizzards which are like a milkshake and not as messy as a dripping cone, so we got back in the car and drove to Woods Hole. Sam and Jonah had decided that they would like to see the location of the bells and weathervanes in Woods Hole Library Scavenger Hunt. It was last year at this time that the four of us went to Woods Hole for Earth Day to take a photo wearing covid masks while sitting beside the life-sized bronze statue of environmentalist and writer Rachel Carson in Marina Park. We then took a ‘Sam requested’ circuitous route home through Quissett Harbor and then along the water into downtown Falmouth. Great afternoon!
