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<\/a>I love Roseledge. I can hardly wait. First sightings in daylight are best. <\/p><\/div>\n
I will put on hold Anthony Shadid’s House of Stone<\/strong> — which I am enjoying a lot — because it is a many-paged trade paperback (therefore awkwardly big and heavy for travel and one-hand reading) and I want to savor learning about his Lebanon as he rebuilds his family’s home.<\/p>\n I love reading about people who live two places, especially Nicholas Kilmer’s A Place in Normandy<\/strong> in which he tells about the week he spent deciding whether or not he, as the only sibling interested, should continue caring for the 14th Century farmhouse his grandparents had bought in the 1920’s.\u00a0 (When this is finally in paperback again, Roseledge Books will have it.)\u00a0 My other favorite is Lillian Beckwith<\/strong>, who wrote a number of semi-autobiographical books about her post WWII years living among the crofters in the Hebrides, none of which is available in paperback .\u00a0 Aarrgh-h-h.<\/p>\n So I will travel with the right-sized G. M. Ford’s Cast in Stone,<\/strong> a Leo Waterman mystery set in Seattle, which he knows well, and featuring as helpers, his “boys,” who are retired reprobates as are many of my friends. I’ll keep you posted, but I like learning about Seattle.\u00a0 Besides, Charlie who lives in Seattle which is on big water, recommended — or at least mentioned — it. \u00a0 Traveling books are always tricky, especially if fog or other delays may be likely.<\/p>\n Lobster buoys are part of what I know and love. Thanks, Tenants Harbor. <\/p><\/div>\n Summer will be different this year, especially without Tim to smooth the way and always be a backup.\u00a0 I will miss him.\u00a0 And his East Wind Inn has been sold.\u00a0 A friend called to say that without leaves, the Happy Clam seems almost an extension of my backyard; Dave Lowell’s wharf\u00a0 is a beauty to behold from the front porch; and my unmowed front lawn which is mostly on ledge has gone amok.\u00a0 More next Saturday when I can speak from experience.<\/p>\n I may be ever slower, but I am still moving, sometimes more smoothly, and isn’t that a good thing!\u00a0 After next Saturday, the chairs will be on the porch waiting for you all and sunshine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Already there in spirit and soon in body, Charlie and I will be smelling the sea’s salt and, with luck, saying hello to the harbor before dusk\u00a0 next Friday.\u00a0 Maybe a week late, but better late than early when its … Continue reading <\/a>