Amrita Island

After we left Scraggy Neck, we drove a short distance to check out the stone bridge that leads to Amrita Island.  There is a gorgeous mausoleum on the island but I'm not sure how to access it without crossing someone's private property.  And the homes here are old mansions and the families from old money.  We didn't want to take the chance!  

Amrita Island has a lovely history, found HERE.  One of my friends was married at the 'Love is Eternal' mausoleum in 1990 because her husband's family owned one of the mansions at the time.

I never heard of, or saw any pictures, of this place until the above-linked article circulated on Facebook last week.  

As we were walking back to the car, Russell spied this Kindness Rock Project rock!  I was so excited to find one!!! 

We drove onto the island to check it out but there were no good places to park and A LOT of video surveillance cameras set up.  Isn't this place AMAZING?  The mausoleum is located in the front yard of this mansion, and even though all the shades are down and it appears to be unoccupied, we didn't dare park and get out!

Osprey Nest

I am hoping to go back later this year and try and get permission to take pics of the mausoleum.

An Abbreviated Trip to Scraggy Neck

I haven't been out to Scraggy Neck to beachcomb in a long time.  Usually I am extremely lucky with glass.  So we headed over there to check it out.  Unfortunately the second we got out of the car we were hit with a strong and icy wind.  I couldn't believe it.  We were NOT dressed for that kind of cold at all.  Needless to say, this was the fastest and most half assed beachcomb I've ever done.  

White caps in Buzzards Bay.  The thing sticking up on the horizon is the Cleveland Ledge Lighthouse.

It wasn't so bad if I faced in this direction but we were still buffeted by that wind.

Russell was quite chuffed at his find of a very old, hand wrought chain.  He spent the rest of the trip tantalizing me with thoughts of possible treasure chests buried in the sand.  Now we both want to go back down there with a shovel.

These were my finds from Scraggy Neck, although the slipper and scallop shell were from Town Neck the day before.  The rock on the bottom right says "You don't have time to be timid. You must be Bold & Daring'.  It's from the Kindness Rock Project and we found it on the stone bridge that'll be featured in my next blog post.  

Early February Already?!

By the time this posts tomorrow we will know who won the Superbowl.  I'd like to see the Pats win, but really I'm just watching for the commercials.  

There's nothing more endearing than a large dog with a large stuffed animal.  Sagan has always loved to carry around stuffies, much to my delight.  I found this rather large plush dog at Pet Smart, and on sale too, so of course I bought it for him.  Now puppeh has a puppeh.

My friend Ann has been painting rocks and leaving them around town as part of The Kindness Rock Project.  Now, when I tried to get this going in 2012, it was an epic bust.  But now it's really popular. Ann does such a fabulous job and I asked her if I could have her make me a whale rock!  Isn't it ADORBS? 

I took the bull by the horns and worked on each square of the advent calendar project.  It took a few hours of steady work and my craft room looked like a craft store bomb went off.  I really had no choice but to do all 24 in one afternoon.  I'm quite happy with how it came out.

I hand painted the two teddy bears in space 1 because they were just plain wood.  Raided my Christmas paper and altered art supplies to find the rest of the doo dads and backgrounds.

I tried to include as many Christmas symbols as possible.  Joseph was too tall for the square with Mary and Jesus though.  I also had to hand paint the tree in the second to last space, as it was all green.  I wasn't sure paint would work on it but it came out pretty good.

I'm having trouble figuring out how to do the doors.  I've tried and failed twice.  Hoping that third time is the charm.  Or, this might just end up being an altered art project instead of an advent calendar!