We had beach day today. The beach is in a harbor and it’s scooped out of the rock. There are huge boulders tumbled together. They reach like muscular arms into the water and they make a 20 ft high wall behind us. A rocky hug. If you were to scramble up that boulder barrier to the rear you come to a field of grass and trees that grow right up to the edge. One old oak spreads it’s branches protectively above the soft sand, providing shade for a third or more of the beach.
There are nooks and crannies to explore and big, pitched, boulders slippery with sea-water to slide down.
We swam and stumbled in the cold Atlantic and threw rocks into watery crevices and collected shells. Sand castles were built and destroyed and half-way built and destroyed again.
Knees were scraped, bruises were acquired and nobody pooped where they shouldn’t.
The kids were so sandy it chafes me just thinking about it.
I don’t know if the beach was dug out by glaciers or worn by the ocean or both.
No punch line here. Just a fucking really good day.
Homemaker Man
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Please keep voting to cure JM. This plucky, cheeky, spunky, band of not-for-profit fundraisers has a little known disease in 4th place with a couple of weeks to go. They'll get 250,000 thousands dollars and organizing help from a nonprofit expert. You'll get a case of the warm fuzzies and Always Home And Uncool will come to your house and take out your trash naked. It's in the fine print.
Hey Homemaker man. You did good for your family today. Sounds like a day of beauty and appreciation.
ReplyDeleteNice day. And not just because there were no unauthorized poops.
ReplyDeleteSounds really, really nice.
ReplyDeleteNice to get through a beach day with no one pooping where they shouldn't!
ReplyDeleteAwesome! And yeah I hear ya on the sand. How it doesn't bother kids is beyond me!
ReplyDeleteI was going to compliment your classy writing style, then you tossed in the naked trash removal thing.
ReplyDeleteYou forgot that I will also make omelets au natural.
My good days envy your good day.
ReplyDeleteSounds like the perfect beach day. Too bad you blew it with AHAU. I may go pander to see if he'll come make naked omelettes.
ReplyDeleteSounds great. Mine would have been great too, had it not been for the poop test.
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