1. Today was Jericho Day. Walls came tumbling down. Not many walls, just a small section in the bedroom where we are having two small closets turned into one. We also saw our bathtub exit the house, the same tub, I am sure, that has been in this house since it was built about seventy years ago. Its new life will be as a planter over at Carol and Paul's house. I'll bet the tub never saw that coming.
2. He paints the details of his life at sea on stretched canvases much like many of us snap photographs. He helps oceanographers with fish counts and helps collect tales told by those living on Block Island, just off of Rhode Island. He captains a dragger and no one, it's reputed, better knows the bottom of the sea in the general area of the Stonington, Mystic, and New London. Seventy years and more ago, If you wanted to know the migrating habits of flounders and when to put your nets down for a bountiful catch or if you wanted someone to efficiently fish the waters populated by sunken vessels who knows how to catch fish but not snag his nets, the guy to get a hold of was Ellery Thompson, according to Joseph Mitchell's fascinating profile of the good captain entitled, "Dragger Captain".
3. It was Jericho Day at Christy and Everett's house, too. The wall between their living room and front bedroom came tumbling down. So did half the wall between their kitchen and living room. As at our house, the wall studs are still standing; nonetheless, it is wonderful to see already how much airier and lighter and roomier their house will be as these new openings get completed. It's a thrilling transformation. By the way, their bathtub also came out today. Carol and Paul will have two new planters!
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