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Okay, I know that the temperatures are going to be dropping and in a couple
of days we will have seasonable cold and a storm bringing us a mixture
of rain and snow... but in the meanwhile, after a day of very interesting
weather, we've just enjoyed a day with mild temperatures, blue skies, and
bright sunshine.
Here's a picture of yesterday -- foggy -- very foggy. Yesterday started out mild but wet and foggy and then
continued foggy. I went into town around lunchtime to get a gallon of milk and a few odds and ends and went
a few blocks out of my way to take this picture of Point Judith Pond. Actually, as you can probably tell,
this is really two pictures that I have somewhat ineptly cropped and merged together (I hadn't intended on
making a panorama but when I pulled the pictures onto the computer I thought that it would be interesting to
try to combine two of them.) Oh... a "pond" in Rhode Island can mean a body of salt water that is
mostly surrounded by land -- the opposite end of Point Judith Pond from where I took these pictures is where
the Block Island ferries come in to dock at Galilee. (There are some pictures taken at the open end of Point
Judith Pond in this entry about the
Blessing of the Fleet.) Let's see, if I've done this right,
this will link to a Google satellite picture of Point Judith Pond-- the fog pictures were taken at the northern end (facing south) just a bit south of that highway and the Blessing of the Fleet pictures were taken down by the narrow opening. Hey, that really works! This is so cool. Here is a close up view of where I was standing when I took the pictures.
Then stormy weather arrived in late afternoon yesterday with rain and some
wind gusts in the fifty mph range.
Today was a day to enjoy -- sunny and mild -- somewhere in the mid-fifties.
Nancy was feeling much better today -- that cold and sore throat that had
knocked her down this week seems to be clearing up -- although she was
still feeling tired enough to ask me to drive her to town. We hit the library
and then went to the Wakefield Mall (which the kids call the "Wakefield
Hall" because it is a fairly small single-level shopping center with
just a dozen or so shops plus a Staples on one end and a Shaws supermarket
on the other). Nancy wanted to check out some stuff Staples had on clearance,
and then go to Hallmark Cards and KB Toys and then to Walden Books. And
then we came home for lunch.
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Since today was such a pleasant and sunny day, let me attempt to dispel
the gloom of the foggy scene above but inserting a bit of color. This was
lunch -- a tuna salad. Yeah, but you know me, I can't just mix up some
tuna and mayonnaise (with a bit of finely chopped onion and celery and
parsley), I've got to put it on a bed of lettuce and add green beans and
red onion and red and yellow peppers and cucumber slices and a sliced hard-boiled
egg. Oh yes, and a sprig of fresh parsley. That's how mild our weather
has been this fall -- my parsley is still doing well outside in the garden.
Late in the afternoon we went over to Nancy's school so she could pick
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A quiet Saturday... Almost seven-thirty so I'd better get dinner on the
table (it's been cooking while I've been typing)... and spend the evening
resting from a day filled with such excitement and adventure. *grin*
Blasts from the past -- selected entries from the archives for this date:
Okay, here we go with  entry number two -- So I've managed to post two out of a possible two. |
A brief introduction....
A brief introduction to anyone who wanders in here for the first time from
the Holidailies site -- I'm a middle-aged (*cough* okay, 63, but I don't look a day over 62) guy who lives in Rhode Island with my wife Nancy (a middle-school math
teacher), daughter Gillian ("Jill" -- 24 yr old college student),
son Jeremy (21 yr old college student), and Tiger (senior citizen cat).
Eldest child Adam lives in New York City with his wife Leah and our grandson
Sam. I'm a former programmer/systems analyst who got into doing software
training and currently works from home doing quality assurance and editing
on course material for both classroom courses and Web-based training courses.
I've been writing this online journal since 1996. |
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