Day 315, Year 9: Cuttyhunk to Quissett Harbor
Date: Monday, September 1, 2014
Weather: Overcast and Hazy ‘til 2 pm, then Sunny and Beautiful
Miles Traveled: 14
Location: Back Home in Quissett Harbor, Falmouth, Massachusetts
What a wonderful Labor Day weekend we had sailing with Heather, Jed, and boys. We hope you had a wonderful weekend as well. We had beautiful weather until it started to rain last night. And then we awoke to overcast skies this morning. It was a bit like this when we visited Cuttyhunk last year and Sam noted that he wouldn’t want to live there. He wanted to go home to sunny Falmouth. So we did. We got a bit of a slow start, just enjoying the morning, before starting our sail home. We had 10 knots of wind right behind us and Mark decided he wanted to sail wing and wing. He poled out the headsail and had an absolutely delightful sail home. Once we got back in Quissett Harbor, it felt much warmer and Heather, Jed, Jonah, and Ollie decided to go for a swim. The boys wanted mommy and daddy to swing off the boom and jump into the water, so we rigged that up and applauded their jumps. Sam really doesn’t like swimming in water that is over his head, so he watched from Windbird’s deck, along with Oma and Granddad. Then he got into the dinghy with Jed and Ollie and rowed about for a bit. So whether swimming or rowing or watching, we all had a great time.
We know the first day of fall is still three weeks away, but today felt like the last day of summer. I’m having a very hard time adjusting to the fact that Ollie starts ‘school’ tomorrow. We have spent at least four days a week with him since last November and letting go is making Oma teary-eyed. But if he adjusts easily to his half days at the Woods Hole Daycare Cooperative, I will be the happiest Oma in the whole wide world. Heather and Jed have adjusted their schedules so that one or the other of them will leave work by 1 pm each day. That person will then bring Ollie home for a nap and be there to pick Sam and Jonah up from school each afternoon. Jonah doesn’t have his first full day of kindergarten until Friday and that will be another emotional time. But Jonah, like Ollie, are both so excited to go the school that we will all be elated if they are still as enthusiastic after their initial days. Sam is an old hand at school now, excited to be going to his first day of second grade tomorrow. These early years pass so quickly and Mark and I are just so appreciative that Heather and Jed have allowed us to be here to share these years with their boys. We are very lucky grandparents.
When we took Heather, Jed, and boys to shore to head home today, Mark and I went to Peachtree Farm to pick up 45 pounds of organically grown tomatoes that we will turn into marinara sauce to be canned. This is a staple in the Goldstone household so we will all work together this week to put up as much sauce as we can. And as soon as we get this first round of 45 pounds of tomatoes canned, there will be more tomatoes coming our way. I dub this first week of September ‘the week of tomatoes’!
