STAY-AT-HOME type of Day
14 August 2011 | Port Medway, Voglers Cove
Alex
THis morning was a "stay at home" type of day.
Dave tinkered with the rigging which needed tightening.
While he did that, i did my usual domestic-goddess type of stuff. Best part of living in 40 feet of space, takes all of 15 minutes to clean and dust and wash the floors.
Then we scrubbed down the inside cockpit using a new type of wash/wax all in one.
We are just a-gleaming !! Scrubbed down the teak decks with salt water in the hopes that the impeding rain would rinse everything off.... they's-a-looking great.
No matter what type of home you have, there is always something to be "done" n'est ce pas?
Went for a walk into Port Medway, hmmm.... it was quite a "dead" town (population what 200?) although a few cars in the parking lot indicated Connectut and U.S. license plates... and then a complete stranger gave us some homemade chocolate chip cookies, right out of his car, right there in the parking lot.
Funny how our first instinct is to run away and say, why, but why are you giving me something?
Other residents stopped to say hello and smile and wave as we meandered through this quaint one-stop-shop type of town. The one-stop-shop is, by the way, only open on weekends.
Shouldn't it be this way though ?
Not the stores being only open on weekends, i don't think i'm quite ready for that yet. But rather, that genoristy and giving should be first and foremost. Connection and contact with people, a smile leading the way. Would be a much better way to "be".
And so it will become a pay it forward type of day.
As it always is and always will be.
We meandered into a graveyard that indicated date of death of most of the residents to be 1890's, aptly found on "cemetery beach". Many of the limestone headstones feature images of skulls bearing wings. I guess that a severe hurricane in the 1800s washed away half of the gravesite into the sea. methinks that this "dead" type of town has a lot of history to it... yeesh....
Very innaresting type of day. All from our cottage on the water.
We're going to stay put due to the weather system coming through. MIght be here for a day or two. Who knows.