Blogs from Massachusetts, United States, North America - page 5

The Holiday weekend has started although it really doesn't feel like a holiday. Everything has changed because of the Coronavirus. We are having a family cookout Sunday Afternoon, so we went to Costco with our masks for all the fixings. In the morning we took the kids to the playground and in the afternoon we were in the pool. We played Scrabble after the pool and I won. I got some great letters and Jess got all vowels. She took revenge on me in the Train game that night and beat me up pretty badly. She won 9 out of 13 games and won with 176 points to my 588 (low score wins). OOCH!... read more

Good News - All the lights went off on the dash of my car during the cool of the night and I was able to leave Maryland and head to Massachusetts. I left around 7:30 and drove through Delaware, New Jersey, New York and Connecticut and finally arrived in Massachusetts a little after 4pm. There was lots of traffic in NY and when I got to MA a lot of cars seemed to be headed to Cape Cod for the Holiday weekend. Jessie was home to greet me, along with Carter, Kaylee, Sammi Lou and Connor. Great to be here where I spent so many years. Jess is like my daughter, we lived in the same house for a lot of years. I was here for the birth of Sammi Lou and Brooke Doo. We don't ... read more

ARE YE A SLAVE FOR LIFE? Mr. Douglass thus once harnessed flicks the leather reins clicks his tongue the old red horse leans into the sweat stained straps buckles soaked leather stable smell carriage wheels steel rimmed horses nickering iron furnace shoes hard on cobbles laid tight by freemen rows running on and on Union Street Water Street Market Street Purchase Street ropey welts on his back not long ago raised they are cruel coarse weavings raptors laying their nests on his shoulders with nothing like feathery grass or feathers themselves woven rather with finger width sticks of scarred flesh split and congealed bicep branches the lash the cowhide clotted lash braille like that blind fingers could trace and sense the outrage with a shiver they speak to him now as the winter touches them through ... read more

And we saw a few! Wet dogs that is...only precious few souls braving this truly ridiculous weather. When we were on the interstate, there were signs up warning a ‘winter weather advisory’ - storms, wind, ice...’a wintry mix’ so my weather app told me. Apparently a wintry mix in Boston is rain mixed with sleet, mixed with horizontal rain and sleet mixed with wind whipping your legs so it feels like -9 (so says my app) until you can’t actually feel your legs at all! But bugger that, we’ve a city to explore! I will admit to a slightly slower start than normal and a sternly issued warning that it was raining yes, and it was cold, yes, but I was NOT GOING TO LISTEN TO WHINGING. So, a quick fire visit to Boston Common (wet ... read more

Today we were in Boston, Massachusetts. I have been here before and he has not. It is a town enveloped in history. He considers it the birthplace of Boston Cream Pie. Okay, maybe it’s that too? Let’s back up… last night we went to one of the outdoor pool decks to see a movie – Yesterday. Kamie got us warmed blankets and we bundled-up. It really wasn’t that cool – in the high 50s. It was such a sweet movie.. the music, the storyline, and the comedy. The ship docked in Boston just after 5am this morning while it was still dark outside. Our TV said 52 degrees with 94% humidity. It was so foggy we could barely see the lights of Boston directly in front of us. We took an Uber to the Quincy Hall ... read more