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Continued to be very impressed by the garden and the canning / jarring / using of what it produces.

And good kids. Mostly, heh.

And finally:

The family that has nerf wars together, stays together. Or at least is better prepared for the coming zombie (or other) apocalypse.

Grandpa took us out to dinner on Monday night at the Bookstore, Tuesday at The Lobster Pot, Wednesday K cooked Grandpa fantastic meat, mushroom, red pepper, red onion, baby tomato, and garlic kebabs. Well i can't vouch for the meat being great but Grandpa's a tough critic.

K cut grass, watered the plants, went to the dump - transfer station - with me.

We walked with Rusty and F to the shack but came back and swam near the house, at the other end of the marsh, because there were a couple fishermen standing in the main swimming spot.

Beautiful weather, but not unseasonably warm.

Natick police officer Vitale, a very sad man.

Maybe he had no choice but to give a citation for my grandfather's expired license, even though he knows the state just stopped sending notices to people so everyone is getting caught with this, and even though he knows my grandfather lives in Cape Cod and that he will have to travel to Framingham to deal with. Without a license, yeah.

Cassidy and Xavier still playing with brand new presents, Veronica poking the fire, Eva wearing the silly hat Veronica gave her and blowing on John until he yells, Sarah drinking a beer and talking to Jake, Dan putting Mom's picture away, Mom opening one more gift, me sitting with the brand new Celtics jacket typing away while I remember what I'm doing with this website.

Helped with a dump run.
Set up Dan's amped-up router.
Worked on Alambre Trio (and a bunch of my stuff, including a proposal to do a session at CMS Expo in Illinois in May that didn't seem to go through, damnit).
Walked the dogs who refused to run with me.
Ate an entire large vegan pizza on his generosity

Drove out with Zelda late last night -- almost pulled over to sleep but then started feeling awake. (Mom is at Snow Farm.)

Beautiful weather.

Brought the old waterlogged Sunfish sailboat in alone (walked out into the nice cold water to float it in, next time will use Grandpa's plan of attaching a rope from it to shore at low tide, and reeling it in).

Tree guys took down another newly dead pine tree.

So past days we have been hanging with distant relatives we'd never bet before

Jacob really wanted to jump off the bridge, so Andy and he rounded me up to jump off with them.

Then everyone else came out, Dan and Leah and Judy and Whitney and Serena and her kids... Dimitrius was the first to join us in jumping in the water,

High tide was around 8:30 p.m.

Leah and I, having not done any drugs except for a little alcohol and caffeine, but getting asked a lot what drug we are on, have decided to G. Hashbenleaphine

Helping clean Grandpa's boat, I was dumping some relatively benign cleaning water out of site of the harbormaster. This involved (not exactly out of necessity) climbing down the side of the boat with one hand holding the bucket. With hand on the top railing and toes on the first ridge, I lowered myself so that the toes were on the lower ridge. I estimated that I could let go of the top railing and grab hold of the cleat quickly enough to not fall backward into the water... and I was right.

Mom saw Ellis Clarke talk. She didn't remember the name when telling me but ambassador from trinidad & tobago 1965 meant there's no question.

She said he was an amazing speaker, expressed a love like unto the Dalai Lama. He went on to become the country's president and is still alive and the most venerated political leader.

"And I must say, too, my exposure to black people was very limited back then. There were a lot of Polish people" [in Webster].

Manda: So you're pagan today? :P

Benjamin Melançon
8:37
this morning i was! Now passover has started and i stuffed myself to eat the remaining bread (poor me, it was a loaf of garlic bread) before sundown

Manda
8:37
haha, poor you :P

Benjamin Melançon
8:38
i think i'll explain religion to my nephews as, you know how when your teacher makes a weird rule? well religion is when that weird rule has been followed by too many people for too long :-)

Manda
8:38
lol
I think that's actually a perfect way to explain government