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What I Want To Be When I Grow Up, take seventy-six:
I will rent, or lease, or buy, or bulid, a small shack of a building in a town like Cape May or Bethany or Fenwick. It will be within walking distance of the ocean but not in the overpriced tourist district, and it will be zoned mixed-use with a shop and a small living quarters and a well-sized yard. It will be slightly off the beaten path, so to find it you'll have to be either lost or exploring or already know where it is. And I'll fix it up and paint a big sign over the door which says "Witch" and under it "bought and sold" and then lots of little signs all over the front saying things like 'soap and candles' 'fortunes told' 'baskets, hats and brooms' 'dried herbs and teas and tinctures' 'jewelery and talismans' 'quests and treasure maps' 'letters written' 'homemade paper and books' 'musical instruments' 'information traded' 'shells and artifacts' 'flotsam and jetsam' 'honey and preserves' 'one-of-a-kind beachwear and souvenirs' 'good art' and other things like that. And another sign that says 'everything produced locally'. And when there aren't any customers in the shop I will be out in the yard making things to sell, depending on the season. And the shop will be open 10-8 Tuesday through Friday, and 1-8 Saturday, and 5-11 Sunday, and when it's closed I'll be beachcombing and gardening and tending my bees and gathering wild plants and supplies and making connections in the town. Once I'm established I'll start to contract out some of the making-things work to local kids and retirees. And in the back I'll build a little sailboat mostly out of salvaged material, and I'll model him on the Lookfar and name him the Seefairer. When he's done I'll start closing the shop in the early spring every year and sail up and down the Atlantic coast and live on fish and rainwater and coconuts and seaweed. And people will make special side trips just to see what's new in my shop, and my boat and I will be the stuff of legend among sailing folks.
Riding in boats and cars and sitting on benches while your aunt shops leaves one a lot of time for daydreaming.
Today I learned: Seagulls will rest and lie in wait in large numbers around route and channel markers, so that when a boat comes by they can fly out in a large squawking mass and fight over the fish that are stirred up by the wake. Sometimes they'll follow for miles, the crowd slowly thinning out the farther they go, until there are only three or four left-- until the boat passes the next channel marker. Laughing gulls, the little ones with black faces, seem to have more endurance, but the gray-backed herring gulls are better fliers.
Current Reading: Seashells In My Pocket: A Child's Nature Guide to Exploring the Atlantic Coast
I will rent, or lease, or buy, or bulid, a small shack of a building in a town like Cape May or Bethany or Fenwick. It will be within walking distance of the ocean but not in the overpriced tourist district, and it will be zoned mixed-use with a shop and a small living quarters and a well-sized yard. It will be slightly off the beaten path, so to find it you'll have to be either lost or exploring or already know where it is. And I'll fix it up and paint a big sign over the door which says "Witch" and under it "bought and sold" and then lots of little signs all over the front saying things like 'soap and candles' 'fortunes told' 'baskets, hats and brooms' 'dried herbs and teas and tinctures' 'jewelery and talismans' 'quests and treasure maps' 'letters written' 'homemade paper and books' 'musical instruments' 'information traded' 'shells and artifacts' 'flotsam and jetsam' 'honey and preserves' 'one-of-a-kind beachwear and souvenirs' 'good art' and other things like that. And another sign that says 'everything produced locally'. And when there aren't any customers in the shop I will be out in the yard making things to sell, depending on the season. And the shop will be open 10-8 Tuesday through Friday, and 1-8 Saturday, and 5-11 Sunday, and when it's closed I'll be beachcombing and gardening and tending my bees and gathering wild plants and supplies and making connections in the town. Once I'm established I'll start to contract out some of the making-things work to local kids and retirees. And in the back I'll build a little sailboat mostly out of salvaged material, and I'll model him on the Lookfar and name him the Seefairer. When he's done I'll start closing the shop in the early spring every year and sail up and down the Atlantic coast and live on fish and rainwater and coconuts and seaweed. And people will make special side trips just to see what's new in my shop, and my boat and I will be the stuff of legend among sailing folks.
Riding in boats and cars and sitting on benches while your aunt shops leaves one a lot of time for daydreaming.
Today I learned: Seagulls will rest and lie in wait in large numbers around route and channel markers, so that when a boat comes by they can fly out in a large squawking mass and fight over the fish that are stirred up by the wake. Sometimes they'll follow for miles, the crowd slowly thinning out the farther they go, until there are only three or four left-- until the boat passes the next channel marker. Laughing gulls, the little ones with black faces, seem to have more endurance, but the gray-backed herring gulls are better fliers.
Current Reading: Seashells In My Pocket: A Child's Nature Guide to Exploring the Atlantic Coast
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My old church has a conference center thingy there for the high school summer camps - that was always fun. I should drive out there one weekend this summer, maybe with my dad. I always liked Bethany, it was a lot less insane than OC (to which I've only been once, and that just for an afternoon).. Sitting on the boardwalk by myself early in the morning and listening to the waves and watching the sun rise over the ocean is a great memory.. I should definitely drive out there one weekend this summer, maybe with my dad. I haven't seen the ocean in a long, long time.. the North Sea, Celtic Sea and the English Channel a year ago, yes, but not the ocean as such.. going to the Eastern Shore is much easier than going back to Britain in any case.., OK, I should do work instead of rambling.
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