Beach Blog
1. Let your faith be bigger than your fear. ~ The quote my sister posted on Facebook after receiving a serious health diagnosis.
2. The quote my niece Rosie has on her checks: I’d rather be toasting marshmallows.
3. Both my sons would have been named Rosie Ellen if they had been girls. Years later my brother Bobby named his daughter Rosie Ellen. He says he didn’t remember that I had chosen the name to use if I had a girl, but I think his subconscious remembered.
4. In my pocket raincoat on the way to Logan airport: a beach rose petal, a shell, two balled up pieces of tissue that I used to plug my ears when we went out dancing at Daddy’s Beach Club (formerly called the Dry Dock) and a felt lovebird magnet favor from my niece’s wedding shower.
5. During a day trip to Plymouth, we ate a restaurant where a selection of “apps” was offered on the menu, which seemed strange to us until we figured out that apps meant appetizers.
6. If I was an inventor I’d patent the idea of a lipstick with a case made of a mirror so you could put your lipstick on anywhere.
7. The picture above was one I saw during a day trip to Plymouth, which I first read as Beach Blog!
8. The beach in Hull is littered with quohog shells, which look like overturned ashtrays after a weekend beach party and reminds me of the line in the Beach Boys song Barbara Ann when Brian Wilson shouts, “Carl, hand me an ashtray.”
9. There’s no den mother who comes to clean up after everyone goes home at the end of the weekend. By Monday morning the beach is deserted and looks like a teenager’s unkempt room. There area always pieces of clothing and chairs left, cans, a blue lighter, a candy wrapper and things that look like party favors, pieces of colored balloons and beach toys and flip flops.
10. I just learned that Warren Buffet just bought a bunch of small town newspapers, including ours. Maybe now I can get a raise for the stories I write for our local paper.
11. Some of my hometown trip highlights in Hull included listening to a Frank Sinatra CD with my mother while she sang along, and getting a firedog bobble head named after me by my great nephew Joshua. More Hull Highlights HERE. Some favorite Hull Haunts HERE.
12. I didn’t take many video while in Massachusetts. One of the only clips I have is THIS, taken at the ferry on the way to Logan. I call it the Taxi Turnstyle. They just never stopped coming the whole time I was there.
13. There’s a fine line between a breakdown and a breakthrough.
June 7th, 2012 4:56 am
There’s an app for everything LOL
June 7th, 2012 8:08 am
I haven’t been to Hull in years! Used to visit friends of my parents, Henry and…crap, I can’t remember her name. A nice Jewish couple, it was at their house the first time I had a bagel 🙂
Last Friday, I drove down to Plymouth to go to Plimoth Plantation with a friend for a special night about honey bees. It was wicked interesting!
Perhaps we’ll take Ralphy to Nantasket this weekend…
June 7th, 2012 8:17 am
I didn’t realize the Floyd paper was one of the Buffet acquisitions. I will be interested to hear what kind of changes this entails.
June 7th, 2012 8:43 am
I think they already invented a tube of lipstick with a mirror on the side. I thought you had one, but I think it may have been Kathy! Great TT ! I remember when you took that pic!
June 7th, 2012 9:15 am
Mine is almost a mirror but not quite sharp enough, which is what made me think of it.
Buffet bought more than 60 other daily and weekly newspapers owned by Media General of Richmond and says he is committed to supporting local newspapers.
June 7th, 2012 4:24 pm
Number thirteen is so true. The trick is making sure you land on the right side of the line. And that’s easier to do if you follow number one.
June 8th, 2012 2:59 am
Back home to Virginia already….But you had a full and wonderful trip, didn’t you….!
About the lipsrick: I remember years and years ago, some Lipstick company DID make a mirrored case and I thought at the time, how GREAT that was…! A Perfect Solution to an often impossible situation!