October 2, 2006

• The Ocean, Glee and Creampuffs

  
  

  The boat I was on the past few days belongs to this organization and I was there to help my mother cook for 25-30 people. 

  
  

  My Mom, the (sometimes) cook

  
  

  (she gets her curly hair from me)

  
  

  

  
  

  We made cream puffs and filled them with ice cream, fruit and chocolate sauce because these things are important.

  
  

  

  
  

  The boat goes to some of the smaller, remote islands and brings medical care and library services and food, etc.  We left Northwest harbor on Mt Desert Island and headed for Frenchboro for the afternoon.  It is a small island with a summer population of about 75 people.  I was able to get off and hike around a bit and it was just lovely.  I missed the kids but couldn’t go on this trip and cook and keep an eye on both of them so they stayed home with daddy.

  
  

  I found all was well when I returned to homemade bread, new kid paintings everywhere, dishes done, and all three of them curled up in bed reading stories, happily.

  
  

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   A duck, duck, duck

  
  

  

  
  

  it’s funny, I noticed that many of  the people on the boat were taking pictures that afternoon. They were snapping shots of the landscape and the water and one another.

  
  

  I took pictures of the underside of the docks and lichen and fungi and seaweed

  
  

  

  
  

  because that’s the kind of girl I am.

  
  

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  Glee

  
  

  (in which I toot my own horn because it’s my party and I’ll toot if I want to)

  
  

  I just found out today that I am having an essay published in one of my very favorite magazines!  Thanks to Kali_Mama for suggesting I submit it, smooch!

  
  

  I am so excited; I will be in wonderful  company.

  
  

   

  
  

   

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