Posted by Jacqui MacConnell (jacimacc@…>)
The twenty year old left a message. “Mom, can I take
you out for lunch?” 'Twas a gorgeous Sunday, made for
sailors. I called back. “How about, you take lunch and
me out?”
He got another twenty friend, and I grabbed eight more
of mine. Only one of those was twenty. The rest of us
are lots older than that. But fun. All fun folks. I
made a store run. Fresh hot sandwiches, good Munich
beers, good fresh orange juice, and cheap champagne to
go in it. Mom’s Day Mimosas for back at the dock.
We had sunny moderate wind conditions, and a bunch of
semi-edgy newbies on board. One by one, I gave them
the wheel. Even when they weren’t eager. One by one,
in photographic record, you saw the worry shift to
joy. And each time someone uneasy had experienced the
helm, their smiles stayed put. On the wheel or off.
I got some pictures of authentic sunny day: sunny
outlook faces that will make mothers’ or fathers’
hearts lift. We had both on board. We’re an equal
opportunity joy spreader here.
We did have to cut the four large sandwiches into a
whole lot of little bites, but no one seemed to mind,
nor starve.
My goodness what pleasers our "easy keeper’ Freedoms
are! One of our guests went from “where do you keep
the dramamine - just in case I’ll be needing it” to
becoming a wheel hog. Sans drama or dramamine.
Today she’s bugging her sweetheart, “we NEED one of
these, dear…”
Good luck finding one. So very glad I found mine.
And a capital sailing season to you all. Lucky us.
Sparrow had spent the prior day out doing the “Around
Lummi Island” race. So willing and versatile. Pefectly
happy to do the milk run for fun with the rest of us
all the next day. I say go, she says “where?”
Jacqui Mac
SPARROW
F 363/38 Hull #48
Bellingham, WA State
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