Day 219, Year 8: Beautiful, Not Beautiful
Date: Monday, June 10, 2013
Weather: Flip Side—Not a Beautiful Day
Location: Eel Pond, Woods Hole, Massachusetts
It’s June in New England and it can be a warm and beautiful month or it can be cold and rainy. And I think this June might end up to be the cold and rainy type. When we lived in New Hampshire, we would often have a lovely May, and then, especially when we had boat work we needed to do, June would turn cool and rainy and we wouldn’t get to launch the boat until July. Yesterday was lovely and today started that way, but then the clouds moved in and it got a bit chilly. Then in the late afternoon the rain started and now it is pouring. So it goes.
Mark and I have had a run of yearly appointments with doctors and dentists and today was nearly the end of run for Mark. He met with his new primary care physician and was very impressed. Tomorrow morning I meet with the same doctor for a yearly check-in but then I still have an appointment with a dermatologist next week and Mark still has a dentist appointment. Then we will have been checked from head to toe, inside and out! On his way home, Mark stopped at the AT&T phone store to ask some questions. Our only source of internet here on the boat is Mark’s phone which serves as a hot spot. When he is at work, he either has to leave the phone with me or I am without internet for the day. What he found out today is that he could buy a device for $5 that would serve as a hot spot for me. That way I could keep my old fashioned cell phone (which I love) and still have internet when Mark is away. So he went for it, and so far, so good. Previously we lost internet connection when someone was talking on Mark’s phone and only two devices could be on the internet at one time. This was very frustrating for Mark as in his consulting work, he often needs to be talking on the phone and working on his computer at the same time. I think we are going to like this new device, and for only $10 more per month, we get another gigabyte of internet access. When Mark did get home he did some boat work–tightened the brackets of the engine room fire extinguisher, worked on the sump pump for the shower, and fastened the panel that the new battery monitor is mounted in on the wall. This afternoon we went on a little field trip across the Cape to the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History. I wanted to look at a few books that I have been considering purchasing for Camp Oma and the museum was the only place that I knew of that had all the different books. It was a nice way to spend a drizzly afternoon.
