Day 190, Year 7: Rain, Rain, Go Away
Date: Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Weather: Heavy Rain Overnight and Early Morning, Still Misty
Location: Brewer Fiddler’s Cove Marina, N Falmouth, MA
If I’m ever to get the deck work done, this weather must cooperate. It was raining so hard this morning that even under the winter cover, the grooves in the teak deck were swimming in water. I tried to do a cleaning of the remaining grooves, but it was just too wet. I had hoped that it would clear by late afternoon and dry up a bit, but still tonight the deck is soggy. So I’m not sure just how much work I will get tomorrow morning. Heather has a work engagement at noon tomorrow in Woods Hole and will pick up the boys and bring them home, but Mark and I might go over to watch Oliver while Heather goes to lunch and then I will come back to Windbird and work in the afternoon. I didn’t get the message from Mark until tonight that the boat is definitely being hauled out of the water on Monday morning, so ready or not, the winter cover is coming off over the weekend. Hopefully I can get the remaining deck cleaned, taped, and caulked by then. But it is 11 pm and I see that rain is still falling. So we shall see what can be done.
I drove Mark to Heather’s today before I went to pick up Sam and Jonah. Mark enjoyed watching Oliver play on the floor today. He is a strong little guy and loves to play on the rug and try to raise his head. He is such a beautiful baby. And speaking of beautiful babies, just before we got to Heather’s today, we saw a momma and papa swan with their babies in the cranberry bogs. These are the bogs that are just a short walk from Heather’s. I went to pick up the boys and we drove straight to the bogs in hopes of seeing the babies, but they were gone by the time we got there. Evidently the parents are taking morning outings with the babies, but then returning to their nest in the afternoon. Heather had been out walking earlier in the morning had seen the swans much deeper in the bogs. A woman she was walking with said she had seen the pair with seven babies. So we will keep checking in hopes of getting and up close encounter with the little ones. In our search for swans this afternoon, Sam and I saw fish in the pond, pond lilies about to bloom, but no swans. We also delighted in smelling the blossoms of a bush with little yellow flowers. It smells just like honeysuckle, but it is a bush, not a vine. Again, the friend Heather was walking with in the morning had local information about his plant. She calls it autumn olive (elaeagus umbellate). If that is the case, it is the local bush that is loaded with little red berries in the fall. I have so much to learn about the plants in this area. So much to learn and so little time.
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