Intuition didn't guess wrongly...
Had a feeling we'd go to Northampton Beach tonight: today felt warmer than yesterday, particularly since the humidity crept up (possibly left over from last night's thunderstorms). Work today, late morning/early afternoon shift: not much of note, aside from some antsy kids and their harassed parents (To kids poking at each other because they happened to randomly get close: "Hey, let's keep our bodies to ourselves!").
Found a package waiting for me when I got home! My recent order of Caitlin R. Kiernan's "Alabaster: Grimmer Tales" and "Red Delicious" turned up: reading both and am delighted with them ("Red Delicious" in particular: she turns all the urban fantasy tropes onto their ear before kicking them around, particularly the overdone preternatural hybrid. I've seen a few too many vampire-werewolf-whatever muddles and she plays up the less than romantic aspects, the kinds of things the fan-children tend not to remember, much less think about).
So, off to the beach in the early evening! Got our pizza dinner at Lena's, aka "the square pizza place", since they make square pizzas: this time we got two small ones, a "Pepperfest" with three kinds of peppers, and "The Piggly-Wiggly", with three kinds of meat. Nice balance there!
Got to the beach and found the tide waaaay in: not much sand to walk on, we could barely see the breakwater off the shore, and the waves came in very choppy, likely left over from Arthur the Hurricane. But we had a blast watching the waves crashing on the jetty at one end of the beach, splashing up to dizzying heights and breaking along the rocks in a series of bouncing whitecaps.
Found a package waiting for me when I got home! My recent order of Caitlin R. Kiernan's "Alabaster: Grimmer Tales" and "Red Delicious" turned up: reading both and am delighted with them ("Red Delicious" in particular: she turns all the urban fantasy tropes onto their ear before kicking them around, particularly the overdone preternatural hybrid. I've seen a few too many vampire-werewolf-whatever muddles and she plays up the less than romantic aspects, the kinds of things the fan-children tend not to remember, much less think about).
So, off to the beach in the early evening! Got our pizza dinner at Lena's, aka "the square pizza place", since they make square pizzas: this time we got two small ones, a "Pepperfest" with three kinds of peppers, and "The Piggly-Wiggly", with three kinds of meat. Nice balance there!
Got to the beach and found the tide waaaay in: not much sand to walk on, we could barely see the breakwater off the shore, and the waves came in very choppy, likely left over from Arthur the Hurricane. But we had a blast watching the waves crashing on the jetty at one end of the beach, splashing up to dizzying heights and breaking along the rocks in a series of bouncing whitecaps.