Pleasant morning. Somewhat cooler than it's been. No more flies, thank goodness.
We enjoyed the motorsail across the Sound and up the Connecticut River. Unfortunately, our charts only went as far as Brockway Island, so we had to drop anchor there, but we're thirty miles from the ocean, so we should be safe.
I paddled up the river a mile or so. Found a small yacht club that had a ramp and a public phone, so I went back to the boat, got my address book, and returned to the yacht club to use the phone. Talked with Kathy's and Linda's answering machines. Let them know we're in no danger from Emily. Asked Kathy to send my mail to Providence.
I wanted to phone Virginia Arnold Siener, one of my former classmates. She had organized the 50th reunion that I missed, and she had written me suggesting a mini-reunion when I reached Rhode Island. When I looked in my address book, I saw I had her address but no phone number, and of course I had nothing to write with, so I had to memorize her number when I called Directory Assistance. Fortunately, it was a very easy number to remember. Ginny wasn't in, but I talked with her daughter Liz and asked her to tell her mother we were holed up in the Connecticut River until the hurricane passed and the water calmed down.
It's so calm and peaceful here, it's difficult to believe there's a hurricane raging a few hundred miles to the south. I feel so sorry for the people in North Carolina. We were quite close to Nag's Head and Kill Devil Hills when we were at Belhaven. The people were so nice and the countryside so lovely. I hope there isn't much damage.
There's the most beautiful full moon tonight. It's a blue moon. The tide is supposed to be especially high tonight.
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