Bread

 8/18- Rockland ME

  The wind blew quite hard last night and into this morning as the cold front pushed through. It was considerably cooler today as the area got a bit of rain last night. There is a drought going on here that has dried up all the blueberries and raspberries so a little rain was welcome. 

   It was a bright clear day that dawned and as I sat in the cockpit I was ruminating on the ocean. I have been living in the ocean for the past 4 months. The ocean can be serene or angry, quiet or even playful. The colors are amazing going from turquoise to emerald to steely gray. Every day seems to bring a new color. 

   Then there are the critters that live here. There are plenty under the surface that we don’t see except on occasion like dolphins or porpoises and whales. Seals we see almost every day chasing down the pogies for a meal. 

   Then there are the critters that live on the boundary of sea and air. Cormorants and loons swim better than they fly and of course the osprey and eagles make a living on the backs of the menhaden. 

    It was a wonderful day for this contemplation. I did manage to do something useful as I got my grill working again. I have been fighting with this grill for a year now. Turns out some spiders had made a large nest in the gas tube thereby blocking the air from mixing with the gas. 

    We did get into town to do some laundry and we went out to dinner with our good friend Anne. We are still keeping a weather eye out on Erin just in case it tries to do something radical. 

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