Day 294, Year 10: Blue Moon
Date: Friday, July 31, 2015
Weather: Beautiful Day
Location: At Home with the Goldstone’s in East Falmouth, MA
Tonight is one of those “once in a blue moon” nights. We are having the second full moon in one month which gives it the title of blue moon. The next time you will see a blue moon will be in January of 2018. So this occurrence doesn’t happen very often. Hope you are enjoying this one.
I’m sitting at my daughter’s dining room table while writing this log and I can see the full moon through the window . . . beautiful. And as with any full moon, today’s low tide was particularly low. Sam, Jonah, Ollie, and I spent the morning at home, and then we took Sam to Woods Hole for his science class. Jonah, Ollie, and I went on to Stoney Beach in Woods Hole and found the lowest tide we have ever experienced there. Even little Ollie could walk all the way out to a sand bar and over to Paradise Rock. Jonah dreams of jumping off Paradise Rock someday, but he didn’t quite have the nerve today to climb up. But at least he got to touch it. Normally the water between shore and rock is too deep for Jonah. So today was special. We walked to meet Sam when he finished his class and we all went back to the beach for a bit so that Sam could enjoy the low tide as well.
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| 150731 Day 294 Cape Cod, USA–Jonah and Ollie at Stoney Beach |
Tonight Mark and I are spending the night at Heather and Jed’s. They went to hear Naomi Oreskes, author of Merchants of Doubt, speak on the topic of why people should trust science. Heather has interviewed Naomi and really wanted to hear her talk–thus the reason we are spending the night. We encouraged Heather and Jed to go out afterwards as they rarely get a night out. Once we return to Windbird tomorrow, we begin a weekend of work. I am hoping to strip the varnish off the cockpit cap rail and start the arduous process of reapplying layer upon layer of varnish. The current varnish has lifted around both big wenches so I can’t just sand and varnish. It has to be stripped all the way down. Ugh! We did get a quote for the work that needs to be done on the bottom. The split in the rudder means that we will need to file an insurance claim. Fun, fun, fun.
