[Rhodes22-list] Marina Musings, or The winter equivalent of watching grass grow..

[Robert J. Nickerson]

elle,

Just beautiful - but no thawing here.  This is what I see when I turn my 
head to the right from my computer.   A well frozen Lake Champlain with 30" 
of snow and a view of White Face Mountain (Lake Placid Olympic ski venue) 
greets me every day.  Maple syrup time is a month away and sailing weather 
seems a distant hope.

Bob in Vermont.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "elle" <watermusic38 at yahoo.com>
To: <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 5:49 PM
Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Marina Musings,or The winter equivalent of watching 
grass grow..


>
>
> ...is watching the ice on the creek melt. The sun's
> angle highlights the ice's edge, but it is a moving
> target; I look away & there is a wavelet where there
> had been a ridge a few moments before.
>
>  The churning water from the bubblers makes the boats
> dance, different moves from their bucking days earlier
> this week when the winds were the moving force. Some
> rock smoothly, some furiously hobby horse; maybe 'tis
> their location in relation to the bubbler.Who cares;
> just watching makes me seasick. 'Tis a waterborne
> 'Dancing with the Stars," where they are all Jerry
> Springer.
>
>  The store manager will be back part time next week,
> so I'll be back to working my original schedule. I
> cleaned & dusted & swept for a welcome back, noticing
> the high water marks from the recent storms we left on
> the door jambs as one would measure their children's
> growth: Isabel, '03, 34", Ernesto, '06, 28". High
> tides are the children of this oyster house. Actually,
> we should have six marks for Ernesto: it flooded each
> high tide for three days.
>
> I sit here & read 'da list' & and sort paper, readying
> the spring work lists for launchings, bottom
> jobs...HAVE Y'ALL PRICED BOTTOM PAINT? ,look over the
> creek (down here if it looks like a river they call it
> a creek), always thinking:IT WON'T BE LONG UNTIL MY
> RED BOAT IS HERE.
>
> The temps are on the way down again, and the cycle
> begins anew: freeze tonight, thaw tomorrow, then
> freeze, thaw...March, April....Sept,....Nov...freeze,
> thaw....
>
>
>
> We can't change the angle of the wind....but we can adjust our sails.
>
>
>
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