We kept at least one window open during the worst of the cold but gave up on cross ventilation for three or four nights and closed windows and set the thermostat to 62 in the mornings for half an hour. That's how we got through the winter.
The tourists and the children and the grandchildren have all gone home and the beaches are empty although the Pacific is still spotted with surfers, even after the shark attack on a Morro Bay man who has become a celebrity. I am in charge of the dunes and at least once a week carry a garbage to the tops so I can look down for trash. Yesterday the dunes were shining. What a beautiful place to be old.
And to remember that boy I saw on the Louisiana Hayride back in 1954, I think it was, the birthday boy, lucky enough to be born on the day of the Battle of New Orleans. He would have helped me pick up trash, I betcha.
So back to writing endnotes to a piece about what is verifiable in David Fanning's Narrative. Research is so changed that a boy historian can find new documents by staying at home that he could not possibly have found in the libraries fifteen years ago.
The tourists and the children and the grandchildren have all gone home and the beaches are empty although the Pacific is still spotted with surfers, even after the shark attack on a Morro Bay man who has become a celebrity. I am in charge of the dunes and at least once a week carry a garbage to the tops so I can look down for trash. Yesterday the dunes were shining. What a beautiful place to be old.
And to remember that boy I saw on the Louisiana Hayride back in 1954, I think it was, the birthday boy, lucky enough to be born on the day of the Battle of New Orleans. He would have helped me pick up trash, I betcha.
So back to writing endnotes to a piece about what is verifiable in David Fanning's Narrative. Research is so changed that a boy historian can find new documents by staying at home that he could not possibly have found in the libraries fifteen years ago.
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