Woods Hole

MK scouting the trail

I got to spend the last two days in Woods Hole, Cape Cod. Woods hole itself is a small town with not much but a ferry, yet the whole surrounding area of Woods Hole is divine, quintessential Cape Cod. After a hurricane and no power for two days, I arrived just in time for electricity on Monday. 

I guess people really just go to Woods Hole so they can go to Martha's Vineyard. I've lived in Massachusetts my whole life and I've never been to 'the Vineyard!" Shame on me. 

Anyway, MK and I stayed at a friend's beautiful house near the beach. I walked at least 5 miles on Tuesday, from Woods Hole to Falmouth and back. We also got two jigsaw puzzles completed, read, went to the beach, hiked to a peninsula, and ate lots of ice cream. Sounds like an ideal stay. 

Ah, the last glorious days of summer dwindling away...

Quisset Harbour

Perfect Day

With the rain pelting down so steadily, and with the heavy heart and abject loneliness and depression I'm feeling right now, it's hard to imagine yesterday.  

Yesterday it was sunny and warm and I rode my scooter to Walden Pond in Concord.

I rode along route 2A the whole way, one of my favorite rides. For almost the entire way I barely stopped, rode at least 35 -40 mph, and the temperature was perfect. I stopped and bought an Italian sub, something I always seem to crave when I go to the beach. I had some scrumptious chocolate, reading material, fruit, and cream soda. Life was good.

Walden Pond is one of my favorite places to spend a day. Especially a non-work, humid summer day in August.

To my surprise, the pond was not crowded and the parking lot was open. To top it off, because I had my bike I got in free! (I felt guilty that maybe I should pay anyway, but I then I thought: I choose to ride a scooter, not some huge SUV monstrosity that takes a lot of space!)

First I stopped at Thoreau's cabin and got a picture after some tourists shuffled out. They were very annoying and slow: "Is this Thoreau's cabin? I don't think it's the original one." Duh.

I walked about a-quarter-the-ways around the lake and found a spot to share. I sat uncomfortably on a big rock and ate my sub, for I was very hungry, drank my soda, and read for about 2 1/2 hours "The Stranger Beside Me," by Ann Rule.(This is a true crime book about Ted Bundy. A real page turner) 

After awhile I got up and proceeded to walk around the pond three times. (It was part of my training efforts.) I took a few pictures along the way. 

Walden Pond is a great place to walk.

Feminist Rant

Here's my feminist reading list that I created on Amazon. It's fun; you can make a list of 'must reads' on any topic (or product) in Listamania!
 

1.  No Small Courage: A History of Women in the United States by Nancy F. Cott $24.99   Used & New from: $7.34 Create your own Listmania! with this product

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3.  To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done For America - A History by Lillian Faderman $14.42   Used & New from: $0.01    (12 customer reviews) Create your own Listmania! with this product

4.  Not for Ourselves Alone : The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony by Geoffrey C. Ward Used & New from: $22.77    (7 customer reviews) Create your own Listmania! with this product

5.  Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation by Cokie Roberts $6.40   Used & New from: $2.55    (42 customer reviews) | 2 customer discussions Create your own Listmania! with this product

6.  A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich $11.53   Used & New from: $5.00    (55 customer reviews) Create your own Listmania! with this product

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Amazon Wish List

1.		The Colors of Courage: Gettysburg's Hidden History by Margaret S. Creighton
2.		Who Cooked the Last Supper: The Women's History of the World by Rosalind Miles
3.		Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South (Gender and American Culture) by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
4.		White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century South by Martha Elizabeth Hodes
5.		Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South by Deborah G. White
6.		Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American Hist) by Kathleen M. Brown
7.		Bones, Boats, and Bison: Archeology and the First Colonization of Western North America by E. James Dixon
8.		The Lady Elizabeth: A Novel by Alison Weir
9.		Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt by David G. McCullough
10.		When God Was a Woman by Merlin Stone
11.		Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern by Joshua Zeitz
12.		Stealing Secrets: How a Few Daring Women Deceived Generals, Impacted Battles, and Altered the Course of the Civil War by H. Donald Winkler
13.		The First Ladies: From Martha Washington to Mamie Eisenhower, An Intimate Portrait of the Women Who Shaped America by Feather Schwartz Foster
14.		The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade by Ann Fessler
15.		Betty Boop Mini Tea Set  Vandor
16.		Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales by William M. Bass
17.		Beyond the Body Farm: A Legendary Bone Detective Explores Murders, Mysteries, and the Revolution in Forensic Science by William M. Bass
18.		The Sims Medieval  by Electronic Arts
19.		The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language by John H. McWhorter
20.		Europe Between the Oceans: 9000 BC-AD 1000 by Barry W. Cunliffe
21.		The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World by Anthony David, David W. Anthony
22.		The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution by Gregory Cochran, Henry Harpending
23.		Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence by Richard W. Wrangham
24.		Stone Age Present: How Evolution Has Shaped Modern Life -- From Sex, Violence and Language to Emotions, Morals and Communities by William F. Allman
25.		Bodies We've Buried : Inside the National Forensic Academy, the World's Top CSI Training School by Jarrett Hallcox
26.		A History of Newfoundland by D. W. Prowse
27.		Dead Men Do Tell Tales: The Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist by William R. Maples
28.		Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex by Alice Domurat Dreger
29.		Lives and Landscapes: A Photographic Memoir of Outport Newfoundland and Labrador, 1949-1963 by Elmer Harp
30.		Raise The Red Lantern: Original Soundtrack Album ~ Zhao Jiping