seasons greetings.

well hello! it's been much too long, but wait...before you judge us as the biggest slackers in cyberspce, please notice that the subtitle of this island life is "notes from the off-season". 

that's right, the off-season. "on-season" antics are a whole other ball-game: beaching, paddle boarding, cookouts, bonfires, bike rides,  and don't forget the dark side: road rage, no parking, nantucket reds, beaches we are no longer allowed to go to , people that say "oaks bluff" and  70 hour work weeks. 

and now here we are, november 24th, there are plenty of parking spots, no traffic, and in just 3 short months the ferry traffic has reversed, and the most difficult night to get on the island is sunday, not friday.

i knew it was time to start up the blog last friday. i had just taken dudley (better known as hudley) on an hour long walk. we hadn't seen a soul until the end just as we were nearing home, a man walked out of the woods (i think it was a man) dressed in full camouflage, only 'his' eyes visible, with a bow and arrow. hudley stared at 'him' for a minute and then just kept trotting along. hunting season. time to dig out hudley's neon orange vest.  

if friday was the preliminary blog wake up call i got my real jump start this morning in the form of www.twobluelemons.blogspot.com, my friend sarah's new blog. and if she can start a (pretty awesome) blog while working her ass off (year-round) and creating culinary masterpieces every single night then surely i can revive this island life.