Day 13, Year 9: Soccer, Friends, and a Grandkid Sleepover
Date: Saturday, November 2, 2013
Weather: Mild Fall Weather, Mostly Cloudy, No Wind, High 60’s F, Low 40’s F
Location: Brewer Fiddler’s Cove Marina, North Falmouth, Massachusetts
Today was a mild fall day and people were out in droves riding bicycles, walking, and just generally enjoying the weather. And this was the last soccer Saturday of the fall season so we went to see Jonah play at 9 am and Sam at 1:30 pm. We are amazed at how both boys have grown as soccer players in the past few weeks. Jonah’s first game was all about try to get the kids to kick the ball toward the correct goal. They just wanted to kick! Today Jonah showed that he gets it. He anticipates where the ball is going and works hard to get there. He LOVES playing soccer. Sam’s team is older, therefore a little more aggressive, and they have learned a lot about playing as team. In fact, at the end of the game today, they just didn’t want to quit. So the parents got out there with them and they continued to play. They even made plans to get together for brunch and soccer at each other’s homes on Saturdays until the weather makes it no fun.
We took Sam and Jonah after the last game and headed to Quissett Harbor to see our sailing friends Chris and Geoff of Shambala. They arrived in New Bedford from Nova Scotia a couple of days ago and sailed across to Quissett this afternoon. This is between us and Woods Hole. They will spend a couple of days here and as soon as the weather permits, they will sail through the Long Island Sound to New York City. They want to see the big city before heading to the Chesapeake for the winter. This afternoon at Quissett, we walked out to The Knob. This is a little hump of land connected to the mainland by a thin spit of land jutting out into Buzzards Bay. Friends of Heather and Jed’s were out there with their two children, so that made it all the more fun for Sam and Jonah. Ezra has been a classmate of both Sam and Jonah at the Woods Hole Daycare Cooperative and little Simon was born on the same day as Ollie in March of 2012. On our way back we took a path down to a pebble beach and Sam and Jonah went straight to throwing rocks in the water. Jonah wanted his rocks to skip and thankfully Chris and Geoff were great at this. Mark and I are just not ‘skippers’—our rocks just went ker-plunk. By the time we left Quissett, the sun was low in the sky and we realized the boys had been outside the entire day. In between soccer games, they had an outdoor going away party for friends leaving Woods Hole to return to France. Sam and Jonah were tired and hungry, so we picked up a couple of pizzas and headed to the boat. The boys are now fast asleep and I will be interested to see if they still get up at the crack of dawn. As tired as they were, you’d think they might sleep in tomorrow morning, but it will be a first if Sam does that.
We’ll spend tomorrow morning with the boys and then meet up with Chris and Geoff in the afternoon. It looks like we are going to have a drastic dip in temperature in the next two days as the wind switches around to the North. Geoff told us that some women in Nova Scotia are predicting a colder than normal winter as the wild bees there are moving their homes from ground level to high in the trees. I’m not sure I understand the logic there, but I’m sure those ladies in Nova Scotia know what they are talking about from years of observation. I can only hope they are wrong this time.
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