2025 Life Logs, Day 117: Boats and a Sunday Sermon
Date: Sunday, April 27, 2025
Weather: Mix of Sun and Clouds; High Temp 57, Low 46 degrees F
Location: At Home on Lakeview Avenue with My Shadow, Falmouth, MA
This morning I went to Woods Hole with Heather, Jed, and Ollie to the Marin Sale at the Woods Hole Maritime Museum. There were loads of people and lots of sale but not a dinghy the of the size that Heather and Jed need to buy. But Ollie found some things for free that can help him adapt one of my kayaks to a sailing kayak. One of the women helping from with the sale overheard him talking to Jed about this and interrupted to tell Ollie that he sounds very serious about his boat project. She pointed out that he can come to the museum any Saturday morning to work with the boat builders there. What a great opportunity for him. I hope he will take her up on the offer.
Then this afternoon instead of working on the photo project that needs to be done ASAP, I ended up working on Ardenna’s needs. The welder who I found yesterday to weld a crack in one of the stays called to tell me he had completed that task, but he also had more information for me about finding a boom. We must have talked for an hour and then I went about gathering the information he suggested I try to get from Heather and Jed about the boom that was destroyed. I will meet with the welder tomorrow morning, and then go back to look at the booms I found on Friday to see if they will really do the job. I did end up spending a couple of hours on the photo project, but I really must focus on that this week.
What I did not do today that I had planned to do was to attend some of the town of Falmouth’s kick-off celebrations for the 250th Anniversary of the American Revolution. The event was called Lanterns & Lyrics and it included everything from watching a film about Katherine Lee Bates to learning about the bell made by Paul Revere found in our First Congregational Church on Main Street to an evening musical performance. I hope there are more events coming up that I will be able to attend.
I will end with a bit of a Sunday sermon of sorts from Ronald Reagan. The following words of wisdom were spoken by Reagan in his last speech as President.. They are copied here from Heather Cox Richardson’s LETTTERS FROM AN AMERICAN, April 26, 2025
On the last day of his presidency, in his last speech, President Ronald Reagan recalled what someone had once written to him: “You can go to live in France, but you cannot become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany or Turkey or Japan, but you cannot become a German, a Turk, or a Japanese. But anyone, from any corner of the Earth, can come to live in America and become an American.”
He continued: “We lead the world because, unique among nations, we draw our people—our strength—from every country and every corner of the world. And by doing so we continuously renew and enrich our nation. While other countries cling to the stale past, here in America we breathe life into dreams. We create the future, and the world follows us into tomorrow. Thanks to each wave of new arrivals to this land of opportunity, we’re a nation forever young, forever bursting with energy and new ideas, and always on the cutting edge, always leading the world to the next frontier. This quality is vital to our future as a nation. If we ever closed the door to new Americans, our leadership in the world would soon be lost.”
