{"id":1896,"date":"2014-08-08T17:36:39","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T22:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/?p=1896"},"modified":"2014-08-08T17:55:54","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T22:55:54","slug":"the-good-life-in-tenants-harbor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/?p=1896","title":{"rendered":"THE GOOD LIFE IN TENANTS HARBOR"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sea Street is mostly shady until ten o’clock in the morning.\u00a0 After that, not so much.\u00a0 The hill gets longer and surely steeper, and the post office and General Store no longer call as loudly.\u00a0 Locals know this and walk early; visiting runners and bikers learn quickly and walk when winded.\u00a0 But what of those who walk to enjoy and maybe live longer and who just need to rest a bit?\u00a0 Clearly Tenants Harbor needs a bench, but it has always needed a bench and it hasn’t happened these past thirty years.\u00a0 Well guess what? Walkers are starting to use RB’s new rock wall as a place to sit a bit in the midst of their Sea Street hill climb and to watch the comings and goings of the boats of Tenants Harbor.\u00a0 However unintentionally, Roseledge Books is saving the day!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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So RB asked RBFriends to sit upon the wall, see and be seen, and report. And it is very good news.\u00a0 You will all be excited to know that the wall is bum-high, flat, and comfy, well, rock-comfy, if you are from 5’3″ to 5’6″ and choose to sit on different spots on the slope. For those of you who are taller, you can be “the thinker” with your chin on your knees and show how flexible you are or you can stretch out your legs. So far the wild roses have not taken over the verge, so ankle-prickles are unlikely. Then, when stiffness threatens, you can stretch your legs up the walk to RB and consider book treasures.\u00a0 Full disclosure: Taller people were leaning against the higher rock wall next door, but that wall, though beautiful (See picture below.), does not have a sit-able top.<\/p>\n

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And today’s harbor was so worth watching.\u00a0 Four double-canoes were\u00a0 following the shoreline,\u00a0 a very well-balanced person was straddling and paddling a water board, the five littlest sailboats were zig-zagging through a lesson, and the harbor master’s boat was apparently making it’s rounds.\u00a0 The lobster boats were all out and the sailboats had not started to come in yet.\u00a0 I watched complacently under the shelter of RB’s new blue umbrella, replacement for the jazzier striped model which was blown in half by Arthur.<\/p>\n

READING LOG<\/strong><\/p>\n

I thoroughly enjoyed the “old friends” in Elly Griffiths’ latest Ruth Galloway mystery, A Dying Fall<\/strong>.\u00a0 Cathbad, godfather to 18-month-old Kate and the baby-sitter every child should have, has taught her to answer the phone and say “Peace,” which she transforms into “Piss.”\u00a0 Another old-bone mystery and campus murder bring Nelson and Ruth and all their baggage together again, which is good, but it takes her away from her front yard that is “not quite land, not quite sea” which is not.\u00a0 Revisiting old friends may be the best reason to find a series to love.<\/p>\n

On the strength of liking old friends Claire and Jamie Fraser in Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander serie<\/strong>s, I tried her recommendation of one in Phil Rickman’s <\/strong>Merrily Watkins series, The Fabric of Sin<\/strong>.\u00a0 Merrily Watkins is\u00a0 a\u00a0 Church of England\u00a0 deliverance consultant, that is, an exorcist, for the Diocese of Hereford which borders Wales.\u00a0 Knights Templar, Welsh nationalism, Prince (Charles) of Wales all come into play because the Prince’s property purchase stirs worries.\u00a0 Very contemporary, well-researched, lots of politics, great dialogue and likeable characters.\u00a0 I like Julia Spencer-Fleming better, probably because I am not an Anglophile (“Of course not; you’re Irish,” a friend snarked.), but I’ll read another of his.\u00a0 I hope Diana Gabaldon’s <\/strong>latest, Written In My Own Heart’s Blood,<\/strong> is out in paperback by next summer and Julia Spencer-Fleming’s Through the Evil Days<\/strong>, too.<\/p>\n

My favorite of the summer is author Peter Temple<\/strong>, but I’ve already read the four Jack Irish mysteries<\/strong> that he’s going to write.\u00a0 Fortunately, his equally Australian,\u00a0 edgy, dialogue-rich out-of-series, Truth<\/strong>, was maybe even better.\u00a0 And I have The Distant Shore<\/strong>, Shooting Star<\/strong>, and Iron Rose<\/strong> waiting.<\/p>\n

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Tonight I’ll start Dara Horn’s Guide For the Perplexed<\/strong>.\u00a0 The blurb began:\u00a0 “Software prodigy Josie Ashkenazi has invented an application that records everything its users do. When an Egyptian library invites her to visit as a consultant…”\u00a0 and I was sold.\u00a0 I’ll keep you posted.\u00a0 Book Report: <\/strong>It’s a day and 52 pages later and I’m not going to read more.\u00a0 Too little philosophy, especially about technology and memory, which was very interesting and recalled fears of story tellers when written records emerged, and too much dysfunctional family.\u00a0 I do not understand the attraction of dysfunctional families ever, but especially during summer vacation.\u00a0 And I know a bit about the Cairo Genizah, so the book held too little anticipation.<\/p>\n

So tonight I’ll start Graeme Simison’s The\u00a0 Rosie Project<\/strong>, which is about a socially inept genetics professor’s plan to find a wife and\u00a0 by all accounts “a rom-com with heart and humor.”\u00a0 I am so ready to\u00a0 laugh-out- loud.<\/p>\n

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Lots of walkers-by enjoying the newly painted front of the garage.\u00a0 After ten years, I finally recognized that the shingles with peeling red paint and no primer were never going to become part of a handsome, dappled look.\u00a0 So Scott scraped, which took five minutes, and painted the part of the front that is not the door and then freshened the lemon-haze edge of the roof (the outer eave?).\u00a0 “It’s becoming a Tenants Harbor attraction,” he gloats.\u00a0 It DOES look good.<\/p>\n

Good grief!\u00a0 Another bird just dive-bombed the blueberry bush, immediately outside the window.\u00a0 (See webcam.)\u00a0 Fortunately, this one did not hit the window and knock itself out.\u00a0 But no time to say good-bye; I need to pick the lot.\u00a0 Wish you were on your way.<\/p>\n

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