Day 227, Year 10: Memorial Day
Date: Monday, May 25, 2015
Weather: Partly Sunny, Temp in the Lower 60’s F with Wind Settling a Bit
Location: At Home with Heather, Sam, Jonah, and Ollie, East Falmouth, MA
Memorial Day Parade . . . Trip to the Beach . . . Planting Corn and Washing Cars . . . Ending the Day with ‘Perfect Combo’ Dinner. This was our Memorial Day. Sam’s Scout Troop marched in the Memorial Day parade in downtown Falmouth this morning. The highlight of the program was listening to a bagpipe band playing Amazing Grace. It was amazing. After the parade we made a stop at West Marine to buy Sam a hat just like Granddad’s. We discovered this weekend that Sam wears the same size hat as Mark when Sam tried on his Tilley hat. He fell in love with it and did need a summer hat, thus today’s purchase. Then it was on the beach. The sky clouded over after the parade and we thought it would be just too cold at the beach, but we were wrong. The inner beach at Quissett is so protected that even without full sunshine, the temperature was fine. The boys enjoyed their beach time and we enjoyed watching the ‘show.’ On the way home we stopped to buy locally caught squid and clams to add to our ‘perfect combo’ dinner menu. Yesterday when I asked the kids what they would like to grill for Memorial Day dinner, they decided on ribs and personal pizzas. Sam declared those two items ‘the perfect combo’ and Heather, Mark, and I got a kick out of that. Only an 8 year-old would think ribs and pizza go together, but we went with it and added calamari and clams as appetizers and corn-on-the-cob and garden weeds to the main menu. Heather’s garden grows a huge crop of Lamb’s Quarters (Chenopodium album or berlandiari) each year and this is a weed we value highly. It is a relative of spinach and you cook it like you would kale or any other green. It really is super delicious and very nutritious. It is the second highest nutritional giant in the wild foods kingdom with Amaranth being number one. Mark and I ended the day by reading bedtime stories to the boys. We are staying here at Heather’s tonight to help get the boys off to school in the morning. Mark and I still have our colds but we are hanging in there.
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| 150525 Day 227 Cape Cod, USA–Memorial Day |
