Day 45, Year 8: Making a Difference
Date: Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Weather: Beautiful, Warm Day
Location: Lightkeepers Marina in Coquina Harbor, Little River, SC
Our son Justin recently gave a TedX talk in Santa Fe about each of us making
daily decisions on what we can do to save the resources on planet earth. I
just saw on Jo’s Facebook page today that the talk is now on YouTube. Mark
and I just watched it and we were so very proud. If you have the time,
click on the following link. It is definitely worth the watch.
And if the link doesn’t get you there, just go to YouTube and search for
TedX Going Global. Justin’s talk will be one of the choices that comes up:
Going Global-Destroying the Planet One Sale at a Time. Justin is trying to
make a difference and to encourage each of us to do the same. It is
definitely worth each of us thinking about what we can do in the new year to
make this a more sustainable planet. Each of us can make a difference.
Every day I think I am done with Christmas shopping, but then I think of
other things that need to be done. Today we went to the post office to send
packages to our kids. Most things have been ordered and delivered by
Amazon, but there were just a few items we needed to send. When we returned
to Windbird, I attacked yet another storage area that needed to be cleaned
out and repacked with canned food that we bought at Costco on Sunday. Mark
worked on a few boat projects and then I heard this ‘clunk’ on the deck.
The Christmas lights had fallen down yet again. These strings of lights
screw together and the plastic attachments keep loosening in the wind. This
time when they fell, some of the lights got caught on the spreaders. This
required that Mark climb the mast to free them. It took more time that we
hoped, but finally got the lights down, taped the connections together, and
put the lights up. They fell again. This time Mark wired them together.
They fell again. He wired them together a little tighter and so far so
good. But all of this took a great deal of the afternoon.
Tomorrow is supposed to be another beautiful day, but then our weather
troubles begin. On Thursday it is supposed to rain and it will get very
windy. The wind will continue through the weekend and the temperature will
drop. By Christmas Eve night, the temp here could be 25 degrees F. Yikes!
I guess the weather here is just trying to get us acclimated for the trip
back north.
