Friends
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Cranberry Festival
Yesterday was the Nantucket Cranberry Festival [GIF]. I hadn’t heard about it until Friday, when one of my friends asked if Nora and I wanted to go with her and her son. I didn’t have to think twice: local cranberries, bog tours, and farm animals? Yes, please. So early yesterday afternoon, we snuggled two sleeping…
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First of Many
After Nora’s birthday, the other reason I was looking forward to fall is that it means the beginning of “Hinds’ visitor season.” We haven’t had the opportunity to see any family or friends since moving to Nantucket, but this month we have a stream of visitors planned. Unfortunately, my dad and my friend Margarete were…
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A New Chapter
Yesterday, Chris and I opened a new account at Nantucket Bank and on the form where it said employer I wrote “homemaker.” Holy cow! It’s here! I have officially joined the ranks of the under-paid and over-worked nanny-maid-cook-personal assistant-chauffeur-etc. (says Ann Crittenden), and I couldn’t be more thrilled. Since our final trip across the walkway…
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Walkway
Mother nature must have had a read on Nora this week, because the weather was a perfect match for her: cool and rainy early on, but sunny and warm towards at the end. She cut two top teeth on Monday (and she must take after me, because they’re giant). With the teeth came a general…
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Wedding Cameras
Remember the disposable cameras that were on each table at our wedding? Well, when we went home for Christmas, my mom gave the pictures to us, and we finally got to look at them only about a year-and-a-half later… There were some good pictures in there, like this one of us and Laura & Chris.…
