2021 Life Logs, Day 207: Woodneck Fun, Now and Then
Date: Monday, July 26, 2021
Weather: Mix of Sun and Clouds; High Temp 83, Low 65 degrees F
Location: At Home in The Cottage, East Falmouth, MA
I picked Sam up at 10 am to take him to friend Olga Mitchell’s to do some gardening and weeding. I then came home, walked with Shadow, went to the grocery store, and picked Ollie and Jonah up from their first day of Rock Band Camp at Falmouth Academy. Then we all went to pick Sam up at Olga’s. Jonah and Ollie were so excited to get to go into Olga’s huge garage that houses her aerobatic airplane and her Mercedes convertible, both of which this amazing woman in her mid-eighties still ‘pilots’. Quite the woman. The boys and I then went to my house to have ‘make your own’ pizzas (on English muffins) while we watched Olympic rowing. Ollie had a 2:10 pm appointment with the orthodontist, so we met Jed there to drop off Ollie and then Sam, Jonah, and I went to their house to get ready to go to the beach while we waited for Ollie.
Finally . . . we headed to Woodneck Beach and Sippewissett Marsh. Mark and I started taking Sam and Jonah to Woodneck in 2012 when Ollie was just a baby. My first photos of Sam and Jonah exploring the marsh were taken in 2013 and then in 2014, Ollie joined us. The boys have always used their shovels and buckets and nets to catch critters and move as much sand as possible from one place to another. Today we arrived as the tide was going out and we first went out to the beach side where the boys swam and dove like dolphins. Then we walked back to the marsh side and they started searching for critters. They caught a few green crabs and Ollie found the tiniest hermit crab shell I have ever seen, along with a very tiny crab.
Sam is going to high school this fall, but this afternoon, he reverted to the little boy who can move more sand with a plastic shovel than any other. He decided that he and his brothers should try to dam one of the outlets of the marsh to keep the water from heading out to sea and they did it! But as I watched Sam sitting in the sand and shoveling away, all I could think is, “Some things never change.” Thankfully. All of this took much longer than we planned and finally at 6:30 pm I told the boys we had to go home.
They reluctantly stopped working on their dam and decided to breach it and watch the water rush out. They were amazed at how fast the water the flowed out and even more amazed that they were able to use rocks and sand to block the flow for so long. It was another great Woodneck experience.
