Our little rental is nestled right in the woods. And by woods, we mean western woods...big towering trees - cedars and a few giant Dougies along with some alders in the mix - that do an incredibly effective job at disguising nearly all the light from the sky. It's a little hard on the brain, to be honest! So we make sure to get out of the house for as long as possible each day, rain, hail, or shine - either for our run, which we are just settling back into the usual routine of, or for a long walk. Yesterday we had a run in the rain and wind which was surprisingly nice (and less sprint inducing than the one in the hail and T-storm a few days prior). The moisture in the air keeps it warm and is nice on the lungs. And thanks to a mutual friend, we've just met someone else in the Point near our age (!!!) who is also a runner and intrepid enough to do it in rain, too! :-) I think perhaps we'll all bolster each others courage as the temps get a little cooler and November yields to winter...Anyway...today was altogether different than yesterday. Yesterday it rained all day in varying intensities and the winds blew all night, pelting the roof and walls of our rental with fir and cedar branches and cones. It made for a lot of noise and an uncomfortable cat. Not to mention that Shawn and I much prefer the big trees out here (or anywhere) to be in safe falling distance from our living quarters...not to be this year, but wind season doesn't last forever, thankfully. The big storms are a little scary with so much timber right overhead...but these trees have been standing over this house for quite a long time with no trouble and are essentially undisturbed at this point...Time will tell, I suppose! If one of our blog posts is written from under ten thousand pounds of fir and cedar you'll know that our optimism was misplaced.
This morning, almost unbelievably after the night long wind tantrum the sun was shining fitfully and the clouds were high and the sky dry. We wrapped up our business early (one advantage of our being so painfully slow in sales) and went to the PO and then parked at the Library for a big walk around the brighter areas of town (a daily must, we see!!). We moseyed down to Lighthouse Park and watched the birds and water for a while from a big driftwood chunk.
Lots of things (and yet surprisingly little) run through the mind when you look at the water for a long time. We talked about Maine and how fast the time there went. We remembered the words of a certain wise woman who told us that we'd be surprised at what we missed from Maine. And yes, it's true! At the same time, how nice it is to be home again, near family and back in our home town (where we do not yet have a home and can't be sure what we will even find!!! so weird!). Walking back into Point Roberts, for however funny it still feels, is like walking back into a great big extended family. We've been showered with good food in many forms, well wishes, and lots of concern about how the rental is turning out for us (which, as everyone now knows, is a bit of both, bit of both. Like most things, it's gonna work, just not perfectly! :-) We suppose we're learning that if you live in a place for however short a time and throw your life and mind and heart into it, even knowing that you will leave it all behind, that you have lived and loved well and fully. That goes for Maine and it's obviously what drew us back to Point Roberts. For now, both of us have the feeling of being a bit at loose ends. No project! We'll have to come to terms. Uncertainty is tough but seems to be a constant of life. :-) It's still a little funny feeling to be back after a long absence and such a big growing experience...things seem the same and totally different at the same time. Perhaps it's also funny to be here without any idea of exactly what the future holds or how things will play out. It's not the easiest thing to just settle into that sort of thing and wait and see where and how things will unfold. Still, who ever gained from trying to force things? Well, not us anyway. :-) We do better at running and walking and watching the waves.
We're going to keep posting to the blog for any readers out there interested enough to check in now and again. We'll probably mostly be keeping updated with mellow daily stuff with a bit of random and possibly tedious philosophizing thrown in there as well! We're going to be doing some good cooking. :-) Will post photos of that and from some little trips we hope to take over the winter to keep ourselves from getting stir crazy, too! There are some places we've been dreaming of seeing together for a long time, some again and some for the first time...so perhaps there will be enough in that to keep the interest up, and it can be nice to do some writing when you are trying to figure things out.
Dinner pics to come...
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