Crazy Weather in Santa CruzBeach scene

The weather in Santa Cruz has been crazy lately. For the past two days the sun has been bright in the sky by 6:30 a.m. and the temperatures have been in the 90s . . . for this beach community, that is very hot.

Then, just when I plan my day with the crippling afternoon heat in mind, I take my daily morning walk super early, expecting the sun to appear, and am absolutely freezing by the time I get to my favorite coffee shop.

The fog accompanied me all the way home, and now I’m bundled in a crocheted afghan drinking Red Bush tea.afghan and tea

The rest of my life is like that, too.  I plan my writing and teaching around my granddaughter’s schedule.  In the summer that changes every two weeks or so.  This Friday several presentations of Little Mermaid Junior will bring an end to Theater Camp, which met 1:00 – 5:00, giving us long mornings to build, paint, cook, sew; next week she’ll be in Meme camp, whatever that is, in the morning, then coming to my house in the afternoons.  Just about the time we get that schedule down, she’ll start Farm Camp up at the UCSC Life Lab, which has its own unique schedule.  When we first discovered Life Lab I wrote it here.  After farm camp, it’ll be Ramblin’ Adventures, then Outdoor Art.  Each camp starts and ends at a different time, and is located in a different part of town. This is what summer vacation looks like for most American children today.

Flexibility is an important characteristic in everything we do, and I’m especially reminded of that today.  I’ve committed to finishing what I call my Land Memoir – an account of the years my family and I spent homesteading on the back side of the Santa Cruz Mountains – by August, which means I have been using up all my creativity on that and not leaving enough to write in these pages. So as a reward for those of you who still read what I write, even when it shows up on no particular schedule, or in the middle of the week, I’ve posted two scenes from that memoir in a new section of my web page called Work in Progress. You should see the link in the menu bar at the top of the page.  I’d love to know what you think.

Please post any comments or suggestions on those two pieces in the comment section below. Feel free to post any other comments there too.

Alarm clockNext week I’ll be talking about teaching children to tell time.

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Marlene

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