HomeMy WebLinkAboutJanuary 31, 2002 - 'Goof-off day' is good for the soulSuffolk Times • January 31, 2002
Goof -off day'
is good for the soul
Times /Review
BARBARA AND I DECIDED that every once in a
while we should take a "goof -off day," a day you
just do whatever happens to come along. We'd
lock up the house with all its work: washing,
cleaning, piles of paperwork, Medicare forms,
letters to write and all those things that clutter
up your life.
We'd take a camera and binoculars and just
head out. Our two favorite escapes are the won-
derful roads of Orient and Dune Road on the
south side to Shinnecock Inlet. We set the date
and, to and behold, the weather forecasters told
us there was going to be
Focus rain, but that didn't matter
to us. Our goof -off day
ON works for us no matter what
NATURE the weather turns out to be.
We had helped put up an
by Paul osprey platform a week or
Stoutenburgh so ago in a location that was
just pure beach sand. I was
a little concerned that the supports we put
around the pole might give way in a strong wind,
so I wanted to go back there and put in some
extra supports, just in case. I had previously
scrounged up some scrap wood together with
nails, hammer and shovel, so we were now ready
to revisit the site.
It sure looked like rain. Every once in a while
we'd see a few sprinkles on the windshield, but
the osprey gods were looking out for them. The
rain held off and let us get our extra supports in
the sand so that the osprey platform would now
be much more secure, and I felt better about its
future. With that little job out of our way, we
packed up our gear and headed for Shinnecock