{"id":5162,"date":"2010-01-22T11:16:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T11:16:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-04-04T14:58:34","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T14:58:34","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=5162","title":{"rendered":"A Dose of Blue Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>A Dose of Blue Sky<\/b><br \/>\nis what I need today.  What with the fog and the gray and the drizzle and the cold.  It almost feels like there are demetors on the loose here &#8212; and then I remember that, no, it&#8217;s not dementors, just January and my cranky 13 year old.  <\/p>\n<p>Those things do resemble each other, though, sometimes.<\/p>\n<p>Over Christmas, because of the generosity of some kind folks from our (previous, sniff) church, we were able to stay at a gorgeous house on the beach for a week.<\/p>\n<p>And what a beach.  I&#8217;ve been going to the Gulf Coast for my entire life and this was the most beautiful beach I&#8217;ve seen yet.  Bar none.<\/p>\n<p>First, this is the boardwalk down to the beach.  It is so picturesque.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/auto_images\/hires\/img23281264175227.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/auto_images\/lowres\/img23281264175227.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh, the flapping Barlow hair  &#8212; with Neffy-poo alongside.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/auto_images\/hires\/img23151264175203.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/auto_images\/lowres\/img23151264175203.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jon and me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/auto_images\/hires\/img23321264175252.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/auto_images\/lowres\/img23321264175252.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The sky was so beautiful that day.  The beach is always different, you know, what with the constant changing of the sky and sand.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/auto_images\/hires\/img23541264175264.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/auto_images\/lowres\/img23541264175264.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the following days, we went down there with some cousins who had come to visit.  The weather that day was glorious but cold. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/auto_images\/hires\/img24811264175286.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/auto_images\/lowres\/img24811264175286.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cold, what cold?  This boy takes the world at a run.  He is passionate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/auto_images\/hires\/img24861264175310.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/auto_images\/lowres\/img24861264175310.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As is this boy.  Know what he&#8217;s saying here? Answer:  &#8220;Why am I so cold?&#8221; I attempted to answer him as I wound my scarf tighter around my neck.  I don&#8217;t think he understood because soon after&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/auto_images\/hires\/img25061264175331.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/auto_images\/lowres\/img25061264175331.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>he went back in.  He&#8217;s the one shoulder deep.  He wasn&#8217;t the only one, of course.  However, the craziness was confined to our stretch of beach and (of course!) to boys between the ages of 5 and 13 who have our surname.  You really know that <b>your<\/b> people are crazy when a look for a mile in either direction confirms that of all of the people on the beach only <b>your<\/b> people are in the water.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/auto_images\/hires\/img25221264175387.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/auto_images\/lowres\/img25221264175387.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Beautiful beach, I miss you.  Blue sky, I need you.  Please come to St. Louis as soon as possible.  Until then I&#8217;m going to look at this and think of you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/auto_images\/hires\/img25081264175359.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/auto_images\/lowres\/img25081264175359.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Dose of Blue Sky is what I need today. What with the fog and the gray and the drizzle and the cold. 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