Dinghy, The Little Magazine. Issue 11

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April 9 - 23 2012

Fun & frolic on Cape Cod.

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On the cover: An osprey returns from its winter sojourn. Photo J. James Joiner

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Things to do on Cape Cod before you die.

Or get really old. Or just leave.

1. Spend at least an hour on the roof of one of the Main Street Hyannis buildings during a summer weekend.

2. “Borrow” a dinghy and take a sweetheart out for a moonlight row. Make sure you leave things as you found them, however.

3. Clambake. The real kind, with seaweed. And yes, you have to at least help dig the hole for it to count.

4. Pick up an oyster out of the surf and eat it. No hesitating.

5. Catch a bluefish. The die hard fisherfolk are always bemoaning them publicly, but deep down they smile when a big one bites.

6. The Beachcomber.

7. Whale watch in the cold, with extra hot cocoa and marshmallows. It may be the same as you get anywhere else, but it tastes way better at sea.

8. Hike Sandy Neck. Yes, all of it.

9. Spend a day on Sampson’s Island in Cotuit looking for Hannah Screecham’s treasure. It’s there somewhere!

10. This one is a no-brainer, but just in case you’ve been in a basement for,well, your whole life: take in a Cape League game, preferably accompanied by a hot dog or three. Extra cheese.

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Non’s Kitchen

Every family has one.

That legendary chef, who’s cooking has become the stuff of living legend. Well, rather than scan the Internet for recipes every couple of weeks, we decided to get real with you all, and bring in a ringer.

Ladies n’ gents, we proudly give you the first installment of Non’s Kitchen: Mediterannean Stuffed Zucchini.

Recipe Judy Alasousi Photos J. James Joiner

Ingredients 1lb ground beef, ground turkey or ground lamb (or a mixture of any) 1 10 oz package of chopped spinach, thawed and drained 1 medium zucchini, grated 1 onion grated 1 egg slightly beaten 3/4 cup cracked wheat (dry) 1/2 tsp salt 1/4 tsp pepper 3 zucchini , cut in half lengthwise and scooped out 1 (28 oz )container of Pomi brand crushed tomatoes 4 oz feta cheese, crumbled 2 Tbs fresh mint, chopped 2 Tbs fresh Italian parsley, chopped 2 Tbs toasted pine nuts 2 cloves garlic, minced 1/4 tsp cinnamon 1/4 allspice pinch of nutmeg pinch of clove

Preheat oven to 350 and oil a baking dish with olive oil.

Toast pine nuts in a skillet.

Let cool.

Mix meat, spinach, grated zucchini and onion, cracked wheat, egg, garlic, mint, parsley and spices and 3/4 of the feta cheese until combined.

Arrange the zucchini “boats� in prepared baking dish, in one layer.

Fill with meat mixture.

Pour tomatoes over zucchini and season with additional spice mixture (approx. 1/4 tsp) and top with feta cheese and dot with butter.

Season with salt and pepper to taste.

Cover and bake 30 minutes Bake uncovered for an additional 30 min.

Serve with rice.

Free Spirited to Fearless Fighter in Less Than 24 hours

On Sunday March 18th Julian Gabriel marched the entire route of the Holyoke, St Patrick’s Day parade. He was marching with some friends for a special cause.

He was marching to support organ and tissue donation to save lives.

He spent the remainder of his Sunday into Monday with his dear friends, the 3 Wood boys from Southwick. Elijah, Dakota, Isaiah and Julian were all together for some serious boy time. Put four young boys in a room together and you get a whole lot of rolling around, wrestling, etc.

Upon arriving home Monday early afternoon he showed his mom Kelley his swollen lip which was a battle wound from his weekend with the boys. A short time later Kelley noticed a bump on his neck. It was not anything outrageous and it wasn’t bothering Julian but something in her mother’s instinct told

her to get to the pediatrician. They did just that and the pediatrician threw out the word lymphoma. Kelley started to get a bit anxious. The doctor wanted to rule it out with some simple blood work at the lab.

Blood work done, they headed home where Julian went to bed tired from his long weekend with friends. Mom was stressed and anxious and not so lucky with sleep. Good thing because at around 10:30 Julian’s pediatrician called Kelley with what he referred to then as the worst news he could give her. “Julian has Leukemia. You need to wake him up and get him in the car to get to Boston Children’s Hospital as soon as you can. “ They arrived sometime around midnight and a very confused Julian woke up wondering where they were and why.

Mom simply said you’re sick and they need to run some more tests. For the next 24 hours he was tested, tested, and retested.

Not a single complaint heard from Julian throughout this process. Then on Tuesday Julian’s mother and father were called into a room with his team of doctors. It was then that they were told he has Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. The team

then proceeded to go through the next 2 years of Julian’s life with ALL. The positives and negatives, the maybes and the might’s, the probably wills and the hope they don’t, and everything in between. They reviewed the myriad of drugs he would be pumped with that will ultimately bring him to near death in the hopes that his body will regenerate healthy, cancer free blood.

The very next morning Julian had a surgical procedure that included a spinal tap, a bone marrow biopsy, and the insertion of his pic line where all his medications will be administered over the next two years. He was also given his first dose of chemo directly into his spine.

Julian has been at Boston children’s since March 19th. We have all changed and learned a lot since then but no one more than Julian and his parents. Not only do they need to know each days meds, blood counts and stool consistency but they are also preparing for him to possibly spend some of his time in the near future at his home. This means now they will be flushing his pic line 3 times per day and administering many of

his meds themselves.

Either way, this is only a possibility because their son Julian has proved in the past two weeks that he is stronger than this disease. While his future with the trips to Boston each week for chemo and count checks are certain, so is the strength and determination of this soon to be 7 year old boy. He has a will in him to kick this Leukemia in the ass.

Not a doubt in my mind he will come out of this even stronger than when he went in. I have no doubt that he will be present at the very spectacular event being held in his honor on May 19th at the Improper Bostonian in Dennis port. Most likely he will need to wear a mask that day and won’t be able to give a whole lot of hugs or close contact but he will be there and ready to jam with the hundreds of others who will be there “Jammin for Julian�. www.Caringbridge.com/juliangabriel www.jamminforjulian.blogspot.com

Photos

A redwinged blackbird shows its true colors.

Photo J. james Joiner

Scup fishing in Cotuit.

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Getting ready for dog trials at Crane Conservation in Falmouth.

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Standing watch.

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Santa and a selection of springtime friends.

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Old school meets new.

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Fun and frolic.

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The birds of spring.

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Daddyism By the time you read this one of my favorite holidays will have passed, leaving in its wake a bunny trail of candy wrappers, headless chocolate animals, translucent green grass strands (which will somehow continue to turn up in various nooks and crannies until just before this time next year) gaily colored straw baskets and mismatched pastel eggshells. Oh, and cracked out children, hyperventilating in the throes of candy withdrawals, all puffy eyes and bellyaches and irrationalities.

Yes, I love Easter.

Not because of the religious undertones, or the completely random worship of talking, present-bearing animal apparitions (though I seem to recall spending a weekend or two in college with some of those), or even the great excuse (do we really need one?) to overindulge in food and drink before noon, all in the name of brunch.

No, it goes deeper than all that, if you can imagine such a thing.

I love Easter for the simple fact that, after this brightly colored Sunday of corporate-themed largess the grey doldrums of winter are irrefutably in the rear view mirror. Barring any sort of freak April snowstorm (would that surprise anyone this year?), we can now turn our thoughts toward blue skies, sandy beaches, new flip flops and which pair of pants to sacrificially cut into shorts, an offering to the gods and goddesses of summer breezes, that they may hasten their way north from whichever tropical clime they have been wintering alongside much of the Cape’s older demographic.

This is the long weekend that starts it all, the gateway to the septet of long weekends that frame an outline for merriment and the outdoors grilling of various meat products. These five weekends are the tentpoles that support all of the coming excitement, bullet points in the script of sunshine and soft serve and mini golf. After Easter / Good Friday is the homecoming chaos of Memorial Day, the sheer unadulterated revelry of the Fourth of July (it’s your patriotic duty to have a good time!), the seasonal exit with Labor Day and of course the holiday that is made especially for Cape Codders to enjoy a little quiet time (yeah right) with our neighbors, Columbus Day. While all of these milestones are sheer joy in their own right, perhaps it’s the little kid that still resides within that loves Easter the most, or maybe it’s just that as the first, it’s the easiest to appreciate. As New Englanders the stereotype holds that it’s in our blood to dislike much in the way of change, but when that change means blooming flowers, baseball and the ensuing hot-dog-overeating tummy aches, Cape Cod Beer’s Summer Ale and hours wiled away roasting on a sunny sandy beach, interrupted only by brief salty splashes in seaweed choked water, well, even the grumpiest of Yankees is hard pressed to find much of a complaint.

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