I hope to post the notes from the eulogy I gave for Liz shortly.

I walked over the bridge at lunch time for the first time in a long while. The whole community seems to be hunkered down for a long winter. Except for the work on the Leahy's old house there is little new construction. Last winter a number of big remodeling jobs were starting, this winter all is quiet on the waterfront. And so all is quiet on the business front for me. I looked in the Clipper today to see a half a page of contractor advertising. I wonder if I should add my name to it.

The wind is out of the northwest, it is cold but, once warmed up from the walk, not uncomfortable. There are a few people on the beach and on the bridge, but not many for a holiday.

We went to the Marshfield Fair Sunday and E and I went on the ride named Freakout. It is merely a steel rod swinging from one end with a rotating piece on the free end. There are sixteen seats around the perimeter of the rotating end in groups of four. The floor drops from under the seats before it starts to swing and it begins gently and then gets a boost that causes it to swing to about 4 o clock. The rod is 43 feet long and the end with the people on it swings up to 73 feet off the ground. I remember the height, the fall with the air rushing around me, and the centrifugal force. There was a feeling of being in the grip of a powerful mechanical force and a terrifying free fall. It was like being in an out of control airplane about to crash. And for the first time I experience the feel of a fall from a great height. E seemed to be not at all phased by the whole thing.

We saw four deer in the parking lot of the Alden museum yesterday about 4 o clock. My son spotted them. I turned the truck around at Railroad ave to go back. They were still there when we drove into the parking lot. A doe and three fawns, two male and one female. The fawns were fairly grown and all four gracefully ran off to the woods behind the building.

June 5, 2008
North wind, wet, grey, cold. The surf driving in hard onto the beach, one solitary tern.

May 30, 2008
8 pm

The tide is at its peak. There is a wind out of the south south east. Black clouds blanket the sky in the west and the sea is grey and choppy. Crossing the bridge I pass two girls walking, and a young Chinese couple fishing. There are a few power boats out in spite of the cold. Again I saw only one tern, a few sandpipers, a flock of geese or ducks high over the inland shore of the bay and a solitary gull floating above the bridge in the stiff wind.

May 28, 2008

The water in the bay is a muddy green today. The water in the sea dark blue. A cool wind blows from the east. One tern circles over the bridge. The guard is at the gate; The summer season has begun.

I walked out to the beach today after looking at a job I have going on powder point.
There was a strong smell of rotting seaweed on the beach end of the bridge and a smell of manure on the land end of the beach. Yesterday I noticed the smell of wind blown sand.