Day 247, Year 6 Foggy, Foggy Night
Date: Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Weather: Sunny Day
Location: Eel Pond, Woods Hole, Massachusetts
Fog is something we have forgotten how to deal with, but it looks like we had better jog our memories quickly. We had a nice day–warm in the sunshine, cool when the sun went down–and then eerie when the fog rolled in. We had dinner with Heather, Jed, and boys and when we returned to Eel Pond, the fog was rolling in. Thankfully negotiating the pond in the dinghy is easy, with or without fog, but we just need to make the mental adjustment.
Mark went to West Marine this morning and he starts work in the morning. So that is on track. We spent the afternoon at Heather’s helping to watch the boys while she tried to get some work done. We went for a wagon ride to the cranberry bogs where we attempted to fly a kit Jonah got for his birthday. There wasn’t much wind, but it was enough to delight a two and a four year-old. At one point the kite went down in the bog and got caught on a sprinkler head. We were up on the earthen dam wall and Mark had to climb down into the moat that surrounds the cranberry field. It was straight down and I wasn’t sure he could climb back up, but he held onto the weeds on the side of the dam wall and got up with no problem.
We checked the internet about the status of the wild fire in New Mexico and then we talked to Justin. He and Jo are still planning on flying to England tomorrow but they have decided to drive their bus south to Albuquerque and leave it there while they are gone. If the worst case scenario should happen and the fire heats the 30,000 55-gallon barrels of plutonium-contaminated waste to the point of explosion, they are hoping that the resulting plume would not head south to Albuquerque and they would at least have the bus to live in when they return from England. The chances that those barrels will blow is very, very low, but they are stored outside and the fire was only 50 feet from the perimeter of Los Alamos at mid-day. So there is the chance for disaster and it doesn’t hurt to have a back-up plan.
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