Day 322, Year 8: Eve of Autumn
Date: Saturday, September 21, 2013
Weather: Another Warm, Sunny Day with Periods of Threatening Clouds
Location: Eel Pond, Woods Hole, Massachusetts
It is once again that time of year. Even though we got a good dose of cool weather last week and felt like it was fall then, tomorrow is the official autumnal equinox. It’s time for fall sports, falling leaves, a cup of hot tea, and time for Windbird to start preparing for the sail south for the winter. We went into town early this morning to watch Jonah play soccer and then spent a couple of hours delivering things to storage and sorting through things we want to sell. Then we returned at high noon to watch Sam’s soccer game. Six year-olds actually play a game and they play hard. Sam’s good friend Sebastian is on his team as well as Audrey. Audrey and Sam were together at the Woods Hole Daycare Cooperative and they are really good friends. It was great fun to watch Sam, Sebastian, and Audrey together. It seems just like yesterday that they were all two.
Mark and I switched off kicking a soccer ball back and forth with Jonah, and when the hour was up, we were all exhausted. But the boys still had enough energy to walk across the street from the soccer field to the beach where they spent the afternoon ushering out summer in style. Tonight Heather, Sam, and Jonah are doing a sleepover on the boat while Jed is at home with Ollie. Oliver is now 18 months old and Heather is trying to wean him from nursing at night. She’s been working on this all week, but when he knows she is in the house, he wants nothing but mommy. We’ll see how the night with momma not at home works out.
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