2023 Life Logs, Day 153: By the Light of the Silvery Moon
Date: Friday, June 2, 2023
Weather: Sunny; High 77, Low 54 degrees F
Location: At Home in the Cottage, East Falmouth, MA

At 7:30 this evening, I was standing on the dock in Quissett Harbor watching Eider (still to be renamed Ardenna) pick up a mooring. Not long after, a dinghy manned by Sam, Jonah, and Ollie came to pick me up. What a strange feeling it was to be headed out in that harbor to a boat that was not my own Windbird. But at the same time, what a wonderful feeling to be headed out to a sailboat that I have ‘adopted’. I was invited out to the boat for dinner and as we ate, the light of silvery ‘almost full’ moon shone down on us through the companionway.

And we used the light of that moon to get us back to the dinghy dock at the end of the evening. Eider will be moored in Quissett Harbor until mid-month when her mooring in Wings Cove back across Buzzards Bay in Marion is available. Hopefully the Goldstones will be able to enjoy sailing the boat out of Quissett during the next two weeks, but if this weekend is any indication, they will have very little opportunity. Tomorrow Heather will attend the Falmouth High School graduation ceremony as a School Committee member and in the afternoon Jed flies to Washington, DC to help his mother close her home there for the summer and drive her to Boothbay, Maine to her summer home. He will return home on Monday. Sam has two more full days of Driver’s Ed class this weekend. So maybe Heather and the boys will get out to the boat on late on Sunday afternoon, Busy times, but hopefully they will get in a few after school and work sails while the boat is on this side of the bay.

I started my day with a two-hour Encore meeting, came home to have lunch and then dig up more garden soil to take to my new gardens in town. I then joined Bruce and Jane Woodin for happy hour on their deck before heading to Quissett. It has been really warm the last two days and it was a lovely evening on the Woodin’s deck. But things cool down for the weekend. And we might get some rain. Tomorrow I will continue my dirt moving project and hopefully work on the drip irrigation system for the new raised beds.