Day 262, Year 10: Gardening Grandmas
Date: Monday, June 29, 2015
Weather: Cloudy Early, Then Sunny; Temp Barely 70 degrees F
Location: Quissett Harbor, Falmouth, MA
Late this afternoon I was at Heather and Jed’s weeding in the vegetable garden in the backyard. Jed’s mom is visiting and she was in the front yard planting new perennials in Heather’s bee garden. Heather got home about that time and announced how glad she is that her children have two gardening grandmas. Tomorrow Marti and I are going to share the grandma child care duties, but maybe by the end of the day we’ll get a chance to get back to our gardening. The vegetable garden definitely needs our attention.
Mark took me to shore at 9 am so that I could head to Heather and Jed’s to fulfill my Camp Oma duties. We got ready to go to the beach and then headed to Quissett to pick Granddad up and take him to work at West Marine. Then Sam, Jonah, Ollie, and I spent the rest of our morning at the beach here in Quissett Harbor. The boys played so nicely together, so it was a joy to just watch them.
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Heather came to the beach to pick Jonah up just after noon as he had a check-up with his ear specialist, and soon after, Ollie and I took Sam to Woods Hole for his first Science School class of the summer. He is enrolled in the Woods, Field, and Pond class for the first session. The Science School is in the same building that serves as Ollie’s preschool during the school year. This made Ollie very curious about what Sam was doing there. Explaining what a ‘class’ is to a three year-old is an interesting experience. He finally understood when I said Sam was going to learn new things.
The reality of what happened to us last Tuesday evening is just now beginning to sink in. The cost of the TowBoat US rescue is at least $200 per foot which translates as $8,400 minimum. Our TowBoat US insurance will not cover the cost because we dragged over rocks. Evidently it has to be a ‘soft’ landing for the TowBoat insurance to kick in. So this means we have to file a claim with our regular boat insurance. They are not being very responsive, and we haven’t even started talking about the repairs to the bottom of the rudder and the keel. I have a feeling this is going to end up to be a very expensive wind storm for us.
