A nautical engineer I am not. My brother Andy did launch successfully in Tennessee. Have not yet heard from brother Dave in Vancouver. I think Johnny would have laughed his head off had he been there. So we retreated inside where it was cool, and had a Margarita. John would certainly have enjoyed that.
On Memorial Day weekend, my sisters were in Hawaii to put my brother's ashes in the ocean. They planned to join the hundreds of people who float memorial lanterns on Memorial Day. You can see videos of this by googling "floating lanterns Hawaii"; it's very lovely. According to the website, they collect the lanterns later and recycle them for the following year (nice to know they don't litter unnecessarily). Those of us who didn't join the trip were invited to make our own lanterns and launch them in water nearer home. It wasn't feasible to coordinate the times, as we live all over the place, but I dutifully constructed my lantern and on Monday evening Patrick and I paddled out into our lake. It was a nice evening, but quite windy and warm. This has been typical weather for several months. The lake wasn't calm, by any means, but I finally got the candle lit and placed it gently on the water. So here's our little lantern, inscribed with John's name and a quote: "All I really want to do is play my bass and make bowls." and three seconds later the wind caught the lantern, flipped it over, and there it floated, bobbing peacefully upside down. We tried several times to re-launch, but the same thing happened. It seems that some weight glued to the bottom might have helped.
A nautical engineer I am not. My brother Andy did launch successfully in Tennessee. Have not yet heard from brother Dave in Vancouver. I think Johnny would have laughed his head off had he been there. So we retreated inside where it was cool, and had a Margarita. John would certainly have enjoyed that.
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AuthorBobbe Shapiro Nolan, Fiber Artist in Eagle Lake, TX. Trying to learn to call the sewing room my studio, and myself an artist. I retired after 15 years in hospice nursing--so now I have the time!. Archives
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