Saturday, April 12, 2008
It was great to be back in Tango again! We flew along the Connecticut River, over Hartford and Glastonbury and Rocky Hill and Middletown, admiring all the spring flooding, how the river has overswelled its banks and spread wide, claiming fields, boat launches, tree trunks, lowlands all along its shores. It's very impressive from the air. I wonder if there will be extra flooding this year, with all the snow in Vermont? The Harbor Park restaurant in Middletown that I took pictures of last April wasn't flooded (yet?).
Posted at 11:11:00 PM by Laura W. Petix.
We tried to fly to Nancy's for dinner, but couldn't get down through the low clouds right over Minuteman Airfield in Stow, MA, so we continued on to Keene, NH instead and ate at the India Pavillion. It was good! There were still patches of snow on the ground in New Hampshire, and partially frozen lakes with snowmobile tracks showing. Between the cloud layers above Massachusetts, I kept seeing lightning strikes. That was scary, but also very cool looking. Then no more lightning and instead God's huge rainbow out my window, not just an arc but a full circle, like a giant hula-hoop in the sky (although the tip-top and bottom were obscured by clouds). It was very impressive. I could even see a faint second double rainbow alongside the nearer curve. I tried to take a picture, but it was much too huge to fit in one photo--I had to look out the back window to see the right-hand part of the circle. Here's the best one I got, just the lower quadrant of the left, but you can see how it circles around and goes underneath the wing, then fill in the rest with your imagination. Neither of us had ever seen anything like that!
Grrr. I'm going to return the vaporizer. It barely made a difference in the humidity of my room, and it became incredibly loud, like trying to sleep next to an electric tea kettle! I have no idea why its loudness level changed so much.
Posted at 2:10:00 PM by Laura W. Petix.
The perfect humidity is the one thing I miss most about Hawaii, I think.
Friday, April 11, 2008
Posted at 5:50:00 PM by Laura W. Petix.
I bought a humidifier today and it's running right now. It makes a nice, quiet, subtle, grindy noise that's very soothing. It reminds me of something but I'm not sure what. I hope my nose and hands feel happier soon.
This is a photo I took on our last day in Maui, from above Honolua Bay. They're too tiny to see in this small version, but the water in the bay was filled with surfers. (You can kind of see little dots in the water if you look really hard... those are them.) The land in the foreground is the edge of Maui, and that's the island Molokai not too far across the ocean. I could see Lanai at the same time, to the left of Molokai, but it's not in the photo.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
It was beautiful out. It's a lot different when it's warm in spring in Connecticut than when it's warm in Hawaii, because it's surprising and new.
Posted at 5:59:00 PM by Laura W. Petix.
I used my eelskin change holder today, and it's fab. I also used two of my KTA reusable shopping bags while shopping at Big Y (not just instead of plastic bags, but instead of a cart/basket while walking around the store). They're black with pictures of tropical fruit on them. This old guy came up to me and practically forced me to take over his shopping cart because he thought I couldn't possibly carry that much stuff, but I assured him that it was quite easy because the bags were so well balanced. He didn't believe me, but I still refused, insisting cheerfully, "It makes me strong!" He looked very unhappy about it. Sorry, chivalrous old guy, but reusable shopping bags rule!
Blah, I'm still sick. It's supposedly 72° outside today, so I really should venture out and see (feel?). Other spring features I've observed in the past few days: willows with yellow branches (!) and seven big fat robins in the yard. I got an ice cream at Stew's yesterday (because ice cream is good when you're sick) and ate it sitting out on the ice cream bench in the sun. Then I got cold and jumped in my car to warm up.
Posted at 2:13:00 PM by Laura W. Petix.
The Jaffrey branch of Kimball Farm opens for the season on April 16th!!!
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Oh boy! I found horehound drops! I still had some!
Posted at 10:56:00 PM by Laura W. Petix.
My throat feels like I swallowed a broken lightbulb.
Forgot to mention: all this daylight! Wow.
Posted at 6:26:00 PM by Laura W. Petix.
My throat hurts. I need horehound drops.
It's nice out! No-coat weather. (Just lots of sweaters.) The flowerbeds are crowded with crocuses and squills, smelling delicious like cornbread. And some of the trees along the highway have just a tint of pink in the branches. I feel soupy today, though--I think I might be getting a cold from the airplane. Phooey. This afternoon I had to visit Glastonbury, so I checked out the new Whole Foods! It's lots roomier than the one in West Hartford. I had to mail something for Dean afterwards, so I asked my Guy where the nearest post office was, and he sent me on all these pretty Glastonbury back roads to the East Glastonbury post office. It was tiny and homey like the East Berlin post office.
Posted at 5:27:00 PM by Laura W. Petix.
I scanned in my two art masterpieces from Hawaii: 1) Monstrous Wave, a picture of Dean I drew at The Herb whilst reading the Maui book, because it claimed there would be monstrous waves. (It's supposed to show him lying on a straw beach mat, getting washed away. Yeah, it's pretty awful. But I like how the wave resembles an angry chicken.) Actually most of the waves on Maui were tiny lake-sized lappers. The only big waves we saw were when we drove up to Honolua Bay on our last day and watched the surfers down below, riding waves at least as tall as they were. 2) The drawing I did at Cafe Mambo in the style of Ray Masters (his art was all over the walls). Also of Dean, natch. Dean is pretty fun to draw. I added the color on the computer, which is cheating, but Ray Masters' art was very colorful! Dean's bizarro outfit got a little smeared by accident.
Monday, April 07, 2008
We're back! It's still cold here, but there are a zillion crocuses out. I only have about three entries to catch up on: 1) Makole`a black sand beach (on the Big Island), 2) our night dive Thursday night (not much to say about it) and our cool Friday shark dive at Maui Ocean Center aquarium, and... 3) miscellaneous. I feel a bit dehydrated. Time to go buy food!
Posted at 2:17:00 PM by Laura W. Petix.
