Primate Brow FlashBrought to you by the Association of Volitional Impulses.(Untitled)- May 29, 2004 The sun came out today in full glory. Maggie and I set out for the kids beach, but somehow got lost in the two blocks to the kids beach and ended up walking two miles to a full fledged adult beach. Oh the sea shells. we collected buckets of them. Maggie has only experienced sea shells as untouchable tchotchkes. Today she saw driveways paved with the things, seagulls dropping them on rocks, and mounds of intact ones of all shapes and sizes littering the beach. and enourmous severed crab legs and.http://radio.weblogs.com/0108008/2004/05/29.html#a913 (Untitled)- May 28, 2004 Ho. Here I am at the Nantucket Public Library. I had a vague memory of a book about Nantucket from when I was very very little. It featured a walrus living in a lighthouse and a man with a very salty beard. I searched and searched on the internet to remember the title, but I couldn't find it. Just now, I browsed the Nantucket shelf of the children's section and recognized the book by its binding: John Tabor's Ride by Blair Lent Out of print since 1980 what a warm feeling to find this...http://radio.weblogs.com/0108008/2004/05/28.html#a912 (Untitled)- May 28, 2004 Here I am on Nantucket. I am in a cabin at a place called Point Breeze. Today, instead of a breeze we have driving rain. We also have a box of phonics cards and some hot chocolate. Yesterday was gorgeous, though. We ran into my Aunt Claire on the ferry and Claire initiated a reeling dance on the ferry deck which Maggie continued long after the adults made themselves sick. We had a lobster dinner last night at the Lobster Trap. They have their own beer out here called Whale Tail Pale Ale..http://radio.weblogs.com/0108008/2004/05/28.html#a911 (Untitled)- May 27, 2004 Here I am in East Longmeadow, Mass, at my dad's house. Not much to report. I chopped wood for a while, but my back wasn't sure how it felt about that, so I quit and helped Maggie with phonics. I watched two northern mocking birds dive bombing the family cat for a while. These aggressive birds do not rest while a predator is nearby. If the cat looks out the window, the birds are there frontin' on the other side. If the cat crawls under a car in terror, the birds post themselves at...http://radio.weblogs.com/0108008/2004/05/26.html#a910 |