The Summer List

  One minute it is Memorial Day and the Summer stretches beyond the horizons of the mind. Blink and, poof, it is Labor Day. What happened?! More importantly, what didn't happen? Determined to make the outcome for this year a new trend, I enlisted my "friebor" (friend + neighbor) Sue to make a list of all the things we wished to do together this Summer.  I loved the idea of sharing my favorite Summer rituals with Sue who along with her family is a recent transplant from DC.  We started emailing a list back and forth adding to it as we went. here is the list so far: 

1. Send this email

2. Picnic at Good harbor after 5:00 PM

3. Walk in Dogtown

4. Crafts

a. card making

b. crochet (trust me)

5. Meet downtown Gloucester at the sandwich shop on your way back from work.

6. Run a marathon

7. photo on Bearskin Neck

8. watching the sun rise at Good Harbor Beach

9. eating lasagna Robyn's lasagna with Robyn

10. Watching for falling stars

I threw #6 in just to see if she really read the list.

  Last night we decided to  drive the turn-a-round at the end of Bearskin Neck. At the end was a member of The Gloucester Area Astronomy Club with an impressive telescope who generously offered us a view of Saturn. I can not explain the feeling of seeing that live image so familiarized from a lifetime of pictures of it in books. And so begins another list,  Unplanned High Points of the Summer.

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Leslie 

Finally a Valid Reason for an Exercise Bicycle

  At the recent New Hampshire Sheep and Wool Show I was across from the great folks of woolambia who had this genius idea for taking an old exercise bike and rigging it to spin fiber while you pedal.
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Leslie

The Marlborow Man Explains Cattle 101

 I love Ree's Frontier Woman blog. She is the best example of "bloom where you are planted". You could get lost in her blog in the best possible meaning of that term. But on this posting her husband, "The Marlboro  Man" explains the business of cattle. It is a powerful, honest and informative explanation of cattle ranching. Please stop reading me and go read him.
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Leslie

Another Good Harbor Low Tide View

This was taken in the morning but I prefer real early or real late day lighting.
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                                                         Leslie

Low Tide Silhouette

For her first walk on Good Harbor beach, Sue was treated to the endlessness of a low tide beach with a unblemished sky (if one can call a cloud a blemish) and more than a hint of warmth.  Did I mention that this was mid March?  Being a faux summer day we had to have ice cream so we went to the drive through  at McDonalds for the 49 cent ice cream cone. We went through three times.

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Leslie

North Shore Yarn Crawl March 15th-18th

 Shown are "Stitch Chasers" for taming that dropped stitch. They may also be used as orifice  hooks
by spinners. I will be making a wide assortment of things during The North Shore Yarn Crawl at Coveted Yarns in Gloucester. I am pleased to be sharing space with Heather Spellman who produces yarns and fiber in riotous color combinations.
 A special thank you to Courtney from the Seed Stitch for making this happen again!
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Leslie

Jon Wind, December 20, 1956- March 4, 2008

 Four years today.  You steel yourself for the expected loss of a mother or father but not for a younger sibling.  It was a huge disconnect between what I had envisioned/hoped for and what came to be. It made me know at a ground zero level the difference of the power of now and the piss poor  power of someday. Even if someday is tomorrow.
  So much of the betterment of my life today is due to my rethinking my life juxtaposed to the loss of Jon. Gone was the option of those years of building a healthier relationship. But my own options were viable and supercharged with my new perspective. I began making change after change like someone who discovers they have a superpower, at first with extreme caution and then with a growing boldness as I saw the happier results and learned to trust myself.  Doing things perfectly mattered less than the fact that I did it. And "did" always wins over "might do".
 Miss your Jon.
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