“Everybody likes a roller coaster ride.”
This morning I have already cleaned off the deck and filled the bird feeders. I also tried again to attach the fronds to my new palm tree, but they are just too heavy for me to hold with one hand and attach with the other. I’ll have to wait until Thursday when Lee and Roseana come to clean. Lee is always happy to help.
If you want to know the weather, check yesterday’s Coffee because it is the same today, the same gorgeous day. I see a deck day, and I also see a dump run as I have already loaded the car. Gracie will be glad. Weekends are no longer dump days as the traffic is lined up along the street to the dump and inside is a mad house. Mondays are quiet.
My front garden is beautiful so I’ll try to take some pictures today. I always wanted a garden filled with flowers, and this garden is exactly what I dreamed. Not being a gardener, it was hit or miss with the flowers I chose, but I did well. I noticed some bare spots and a bush is going to be moved this fall so next year I get to buy more flowers, perennials in the front. I’ll do a bit of research first then make my list. Some I may have to get on-line as rare flowers aren’t at the local garden shops. People tend to buy the familiar.
We never came down the cape when I was a kid. All our vacations were in Maine or Vermont. On weekends we went to local beaches on the North Shore. When I was really young, we went to Revere Beach. I remember aunts and uncles and cousins being there with us as well. I also remember the adults would take turns. Some would watch us while others would run across the street for a drink or two. Revere Beach back then had all sorts of food booths, bars, arcade games and rides. We kids never left the beach. There was always plenty to eat and drink from the various baskets. We’d whine and ask to go on a ride, but I can’t remember ever taking one though maybe we rode the merry-go-round, but that is a hazy memory at best.
When I was in high school, my friends and I would go to Revere Beach on a Friday or Saturday night. We’d buy sausage subs with peppers and onions and eat them as we walked along the boardwalk. We rode the roller coaster. I remember that roller coaster more than any other ride because when I was young I could see the top of the coaster from the highway on the way to visit my grandparents. It was a sign post of sorts as to where we were. I loved that old wooden coaster. I remember the anticipation and maybe a little fear as the roller coaster slowly climbed that first hill. I remember the sounds of the coaster. It made squealing noises around corners, the wheels clicked on the track for the whole ride and people always screamed, especially down that first hill. The brave ones didn’t hold on but raised both arms in the air in a show of bravado. I wasn’t one of them. I always held on.
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August 11, 2014 at 11:14 am
Well, maybe not everybody likes a roller coaster ride. One of today’s big stories: http://www.statter911.com/2014/08/11/video-5-hour-pgfd-roller-coaster-rescue-operation-six-flags-md/
August 11, 2014 at 11:20 am
I am a solid rollercoaster rider if it involves Captain Hook and the naughty Croc – other than that …
August 11, 2014 at 11:26 am
My Dear Hedley,
I can see a horror movie where the coaster rolls right into the monster’s mouth, a naughty croc would work just fine.
August 11, 2014 at 11:25 am
im6,
That was a long time to wait. I’d probably have to go to the bathroom or be in a car with someone who likes to move it back and forth. At least no one was hurt.
August 11, 2014 at 11:28 am
Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen will have plenty to celebrate next month when he releases his thirteenth studio album to coincide with his 80th birthday.
The news was revealed at the 2014 Leonard Cohen Event by organiser Jarkko Arjatsalo, who said: “Leonard has worked hard on his next studio album of entirely new songs. He asked me to let you know that Popular Problems will be out at the end of September, shortly after his 80th birthday.”
August 11, 2014 at 11:44 am
MDH,
You’ll have to stand in line to buy it. Maybe he is best at 80!!!
August 11, 2014 at 11:31 am
Hi Kat,
I never rode that roller coaster. I wouldn’t ride that roller coaster or any other roller coaster. I’m not a fan of the thanky-mum feeling in the stomach when the road drops out from under the car so a roller coaster is beyond the pale. Loved the flying swings, though.
Sausage, peppers and onions sub…mmmmm. 🙂
All our vacations were taken in NH and ME as well. I think it was easier to get there from here. You didn’t have to drive through Boston to go north and the Hampton tolls weren’t. 🙂
It’s another lovely day here too. Rocky, Piki Dog and I went to the lake early this morning. I let them run loose. Sort of. They were clipped to each other on a tandem lead but I wasn’t holding it. They were ecstatic. They thought they were loose.
Enjoy the day.
August 11, 2014 at 11:53 am
Hi Caryn,
The flying swings always made me sick. I can’t do round rides. I was fine until a ride at the Barnstable Fair that was like a caterpillar ride and a tarp covered the cars. Being out of the air was my downfall.
I rode the coaster at Paragon park about 8 or 9 times the last week before it was taken down. Paragon Park was where my eighth grade trip had been-lots of memories there. I loved that old coaster.
That might be the reason for going up north-just hop on the highway and keep going. My first time on the cape was when we moved here.
I would loved to have seen the two of them. I know Christer used that same trick with Nova when he was trying to train her. It’s a great idea.
Have a great day!
August 11, 2014 at 7:29 pm
It was more difficult before Rts 95 and 93. I remember having to navigate for my mother at a very young age as we traveled up Route 28 and Route 28 Bypass and various other secondary roads that went though all kinds of towns before we got to Center Barnstead.
August 11, 2014 at 7:40 pm
Caryn,
We always went up Route 1 which I loved as everything alone the sides was so interesting. I remember the Ship restaurant, the Leaning Tower, the totem from Deerskin Trader and so many more. It made the ride far less tiresome.
August 11, 2014 at 2:24 pm
We had lots of rain in the morning and after that the sun was supposed to shine all day so I wasn’t the least surprised when the thunder started when I came home 🙂 It was a king one this time and very little rain but we barely managed to come home from our walk before it started.
I remember from when I was very little that we went to our summer cottage and that lots of people were there. My uncle and aunts but it all depended on wich of the aunts and the uncle that were fighting at the moment 🙂 🙂 We all went down to the lake on hot days and one of my cousins swore that he had seen a big monster swimming around in the lake before we all looked at that direction 🙂 There were’t even an ice cream stand by that beach but like You we always had plenty with us.
I love roller coasters and the biggest amusement park in norther Europe is in the city I grew up. I remember the first time I rode in one of them, my mother really wanted to get up in one of them and sort of tricked me by saying it wasn’t bad at all 🙂 I loved it from the first second 🙂 There also had the oldest roller coaster in the world made from wood and it wasn’t that bad to be honest, the only reason we all screamed in that one was because we all feared it would break when the heavy traincart? ) took those turns 🙂 🙂 🙂
Have a great day!
Christer.
August 11, 2014 at 3:23 pm
Christer,
We still have great weather. Gracie and I just got back from the dump and the roads were filled though the dump was empty enough. The birds are enjoying their filled feeder and there are many of them.
Ice cream trucks make beach stops as do food trucks, but I don’t go to the beach. It is always too crowded, and I am not fond of sand all over me.
I went on one with loops that was in Virginia. My mother wouldn’t go on but held my stuff and watched. Upside down was darn scary. I held on to the harness for all I was worth. I didn’t scream but I surely could have from fright.
Have a great day!
August 11, 2014 at 2:48 pm
No more roller coaster rides. After my last ride in Vancouver about 25 years ago you’ll have to sedate me with a Cohen album before I ever get on a roller coaster again.
August 11, 2014 at 3:23 pm
Birgit,
Poor Lennie! I’d go on one I think.
August 11, 2014 at 3:49 pm
Birgit – Excellent point, hum “Sisters of Mercy” should be a solid sedative before jumping on some gut wrenching ride. Actually its a very big 30 days with Kat’s Birthday coming up this Sunday and then our beloved Lennie hits 80 on September 21
August 11, 2014 at 5:02 pm
MDH,
Beloved Lenny?
August 11, 2014 at 10:49 pm
I have never ridden a roller coaster and I never will. I absolutely hate amusement park rides except for the merry go round. Call me a chicken but I hate being in a vehicle that I can’t control. No tilt-a-whorl nor big drops, nor Ferris wheels, nor flying swings. Basically I have a tremendous fear of heights and a weak stomach. I like to eat all the goodies on the Midway like corn dogs, cotton candy and dipped ice cream bars and I don’t enjoy barfing it up on the roller coaster.
Sad news of the passing of a Robin Williams at 63 of an apparent suicide. What a fabulous talent to leave us so young.
Hot again today. It’s August in Texas.
August 11, 2014 at 11:17 pm
Bob,
I can’t do rides which go in a circle though the merry go round is slow enough that I can ride it. The rest make me dizzy and sick to my stomach. Going slowly up the first hill of a roller coaster is anticipation and fear rolled into one. You’re going slowly but you know what’s coming. I like the goodies as well. Fried dough is another I usually eat.
It was so sad that he thought taking his own life was the only way out of his misery.
70’s today and chilly tonight.