Donna, I found a way to open up my

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Donna, I found a way to open up my
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Sat, 09-13-2003 - 8:20pm
head somewhat -- I cooked a spaghetti squash tonight and added 3 LARGE cloves of garlic to the already spicy sauce. After I ate that, suddenly my head opened up. I don't know how long it will stay that way, but at least it's a temporary (and tasty) reprieve. Saline nasal drops or a steamer are good too.

How are you feeling tonight after your day at the beach? Better, I hope.

Rhonda

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Sat, 09-13-2003 - 8:35pm
Forgot to tell you that I looked up Revere Beach. I didn't realize that it was America's first public beach (1896). How neat. My mom went to Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy, which looks to be due south from there. I'm including a link in case anyone else wants to see about it.

http://www.reverebeach.com/index2.html

St. Augustine is America's oldest city, but I guess it took them a while to get out on the island and open it up as a beach. Probably lots of snakes and gators to contend with.

Rhonda

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Sun, 09-14-2003 - 12:00pm
Glad to hear you're doing better today. Garlic usually works wonders. I made my first South Beach diet breakfast (not on board yet, just trying to see if I can get through a couple of days without my eyes glazing over at a glimpse of bread or scones or Dove Dark). Anyway, I cooked mushrooms and spinach with 2 cloves of garlic for a breakfast frittata and I'm waiting for it to work. Forgot about my steamer - goinh to get that ready to go, also.

The air is really heavy and humid - back to shorts and tanks for me today.

We had a nice visit with the little ones yesterday - they were out the door before I finished asking if anyone wanted to go for a walk. Like puppies. They smelled a chance to get some mango slush before the official end of summer.

Revere Beach has quite a storied history. It used to be quite the grand place in the early 1900s. Had wonderful hotels, and a fantastic amusement park. It's right on the rapid transit line north of Boston, so it's easily accessible to everyone. Over time, its glory faded, and it became quite rundown and seedy for a while in the 60s and 70s.

It's still the most democratic place in Massachusetts. There are still remnants of the trashy mixed in with the classy attempts that have been made to bring it back. You still see big hai-ah, Baby Oil tans, tatoos, barely-there bikinis (with stilletto shoes, of course), and guys in Speedos who should know better (and don't forget the chestful of gold chains), and that Boston accent is pervasive. Several new condo developments - not high-rise, more like 8 stories or so -have become unofficial senior residences, a few nice restaurants have sprung up amidst the clam shacks, ice cream stands, and biker bars, and the amusement park is long gone. The colony of small beach cottages that have become year-round homes could be quite wonderful if the city would get its act together and make some much needed streetscape/drainage/flood control improvements and do better at law enforcement. That's the area my sister live in, and there's such potential there, but there are too many absentee landlords in the area who don't care about anything but the rent check. And the city really just pays lip service to the homeowners who live there, who pay the same kinds of ridiculous taxes as the swells in other parts of the city do. My sister is already a wreck over Isabel, keeping the little ones safe, and the potential flood damage.

I would love for that part of Revere to be spruced up a bit, like the area around Wollaston Beach in Quincy. Wollaston is a great beach, but it suffered for a long time from the awful condition of Greater Boston's old wastewater treatment plant and storm-induced sewer overflows that the tide carried in its direction. The multi-million-dollar new treatment plant is doing its job and Wollaston hasn't had the wet-weather problems that it used to.

I know three other people who attended Eastern Nazarene College - one is my former administrative assistant from my old job, one is our big boss's current administrator, and the other was a peer from my old job before she moved on to a new industry. All of them participated in the school's LEAD program - intensive BSBA for working people. It is a very small world.

Hoping to feel better today in time for the Patriots game. I'm saving the laundry for then in case they are as atrocious as they were last week; if they're good, the laundry can wait. It's always nice to have a backup plan...

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Sun, 09-14-2003 - 2:25pm
Revere Beach and Jacksonville Beach sound as though they have a lot in common. Dad said Jax. Bch. was quite the place in the 40's and 50's with auto races right on the wide, hardpacked sand beach. In the 60's, it was still the "happening" place with a small amusement part, neat touristy shops, and hole-in-the-wall restaurants. Gradually, it went downhill, the beach eroded after several hurricanes (but was still wide), they stopped allowing driving on the beach, and it became a place for transients and druggies to hang out. For a good 30 years, politicians argued about a plan to renew it. Finally, several years ago, new restaurants, shops, a bandshell, expensive highrises, and things like that started going in, so it is making a comeback. We still don't go there. We prefer to go to St. Augustine Beach out on Anastasia Island just south of here, where you can still drive on the beach, and the surfing is pretty good.

Tell your sister to hang on to that property. That area will eventually make a comeback as several other areas around here have, and she'll be sitting on a goldmine! Hope she doesn't have a problem with Isabel. As it stands now, it looks as though the Carolinas may be in for it again. Charleston is a gorgeous, historical city, but I sure wouldn't want to live there. When you tour some of the historical homes on the battery you can see high water marks a good 4-5 feet up the inside walls from storms past. Good thing those houses weren't constructed the way ones today are, or they probably wouldn't be here.

We're going to be having rough surf conditions here over the coming week. Tim has to go to California from Tuesday to Sunday night, so he's already laid down the law to Rob, "no surfing while he's gone!" When conditions get beyond a certain point, it's just too dangerous.

I did pay-per-view to watch the Gators stomp FAMU yesterday. I had no idea it'd be so lopsided, but I knew they should beat them soundly. I mainly did it to see the FAMU band plan. I'd seen them at an AFL-NFL all-star game here in the '60's when Joe Namath was a quarterback, and they were so awesome! They were the original funk marching band with fantastic drumline and choreography. Final score was 63-3. I'd love to see that happen next week w/ Tennessee, but don't anticipate that. At least it'll be played at The Swamp.

Jaguars' game here is blacked out, because it isn't a sellout. We have one of the biggest stadiums, some of the highest prices (although they lowered them recently), and one of the smallest fan bases to draw from in the NFL, and they wonder why it's so hard to sell out the stadium. And, they're expanding it for the 2005 Super Bowl. I'm not big on pro ball, anyway. Good luck with your Patriots!

I need to get back on the South Beach Diet. It worked when I ate healthy.

Rhonda

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