Norm's World #6
New England, not unlike many of the states in the northern half of the USA, has lost population over the last decade. Norm feels the pain. With snowstorms that measure in feet, the high cost of heating oil, weather that changes hourly, and a three month summer, people get tired. They want that 85 degree daily average and straight-up blue sky to rock their world. And humidity has always been the deal breaker. New England can be very humid. Norm understands.
But this is home. New England is where it all began. It's bumpy back roads. The best rivalry in baseball. Clam chowder. Amazing autumns. Moose. Bugs you can kill. And 100% real maple syrup. It's Cape Cod. Twin lobster specials. And covered bridges. It's Norm's home, and the home of his ancestry. It's a snow covered mountain on a sunny November day. It's a place to be.
posted by norm at 8:48 PM
11 Comments:
Love the sky shot! Gorgeous!
Oh, I meant to tell you. I recently saw an episode of Househunters on HGTV. If you've never seen the show, they follow a real person on a real-life house-hunt. They interview the person, we see where they live currently, find out what they like about their current home, and what they are looking for in the house-hunt. Then, they look at three places and at the end, they reveal which home was purchased, and they interview the person in their new place.
The episode I saw was an Italian guy who lived in North Boston. He is a podiatrist and lives in a really cool apartment above his practice in a super-old building (which he owns). His house-hunt was actually for a weekend place, and his search took place in Provincetown.
I enjoyed the episode. I LOVE North Boston! I could totally see myself living among the Paisan there. They showed open air markets with everyone greeting each other by name, all looking like my Italian relatives.
Good show.
First, where ever you are in New England sounds gorgeous. And the weather you're describing is pretty much what I go through up here in Ontario.
Second, LA, I saw that episode of HouseHunters too (I never miss an episode) and I thought that Boston seemed like a pretty place to live too!
mish - Did you think the guy was gay? He didn't seem gay, but his friends did. I came away confused, but I thought the dude was totally hot. I love Italian man (another reason to move to the East Coast).
I heart Househunters!
LA, thanks. Norm has never seen the show, but any straight guy that owns a building in the North End is a catch. But if he is vacationing in Provincetown, chances are he is a little light in the loafers.
Mish, Boston is very pretty and not too big. Norm thinks it's a great walking city.
That's nice of you to say Ffleur. Norm gets a little freaked out about the whole immigrant thing. One side of Norm's mother's family is thought to have come over in the 1600's. Can you imagine?!!
I'm in love with the Northeast Norm. I looked in to buying a home in Connetecuit but couldn't afford it (yet). I spends a couple of weeks a year in Mass. Very beautiful. I hold ZERO ancestry here. Yet I feel it's where I've always belonged. Even as a little girl I dreamed of living here.
Yeah, LA. I watched that episode and wasn't exactly sure if he was or not. I wouldn't rule it out though.
I have friends that bought a house on Great Diamond Island in Maine. I try not to be jealous, but I'm only human. Pelegrim and I flew into Boston and drove to Portland Maine to take a ferry to Nova Scotia. Loved it. One of my favorite trips!
Norm thinks that's so cool, Joy. Many move out of this area, but you moved here!
Kookla, you and Pelegrim must've had a blast. That ferry is called "The Cat" and Norm sees the ads on television all the time. Norm has never heard of Great Diamond Island, but Maine is such a beautiful state. (Very, very expensive, too!)
Norm you idiot, check out this link!!
http://www.diamondcove.com/
ffleur...Originally (and still) inhabited by the Wampanoag Indians, Martha's Vineyard was known in their language as Noepe, or "land amid the streams". It was named Martha's Vineyard by the English explorer, Bartholomew Gosnold, who sailed to the island in 1602. Gosnold's mother-in-law as well as his daughter, who died in infancy, were each named Martha.
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