Mommy Spirit

Today we went for a short November hike on the Little Pond Boardwalk Trail in Litchfield, CT.  The sun was low in the sky, and if we had waited just an hour later, we would have been walking back to the car in the dark at 4:30 p.m.!
This time of year makes me sad.  The hustle and bustle of October has ended; the air is harsher and colder, and our daylight is shorter.  Still, I'm looking forward to Christmas, New Year's Day, and our first snowfall.  There's lots of joy to be had...

As mentioned in my last post, my dad's boat, the Rhonda B., waited ten long years to be seaworthy again.  Being left outside during those cold New England winters, it fell into disrepair, and there never seemed to be a "right" time to fix it.  Often...

I've been waiting to write a post about my father's boat for a long time.  You see, the Rhonda B. (possibly named after an old girlfriend) is my dad's small bass boat purchased in 1973.  The boat company/builder Ouachita (pronounced Wash-A-Taw) operated...

This weekend, we went to Battleship Cove Maritime Museum in Fall River, Mass. and slept over on the USS Massachusetts, a World War II battleship.  I really wanted to enjoy the stay, but I do have to admit that I found the sleepover a bit unnerving. ...