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Cold

Summer Complaints. The first I heard that term was about annual summer visitors to the coastal communities of Maine. But, the name had an earlier etymology on the coast. Older residents could speak authoritatively of spring complaints, fevers, chills, and illnesses that came on with the change of the season in the spring. Once upon a time, every grannie would have had a specially concocted mixture of herbs and secret ingredients that everyone in the family would be forced to consume, along with the Cod Liver Oil that was a medicinal standard. A spring tonic.

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The Devil

You'd be hard-pressed to find any family of seafarers, fisherfolk, or plain coastal types without some horror tale on the water. It just goes with the territory; salt water envelopes most of the world and is dangerous. 

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International Talk Like A Pirate Day

This is it, folks! Your opportunity to talk like a pirate - International Talk Like A Pirate Day, September 19th!

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Crossing The Line

I mentioned the shortness of twilight in the tropics. In the northern and southern latitudes, we are used to extended twilights at sunrise and sunset while in the tropics, it is a rush job - suns up and suns down.

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The Shell Game

"luck is what you stumble upon in life. Providence is what God plans for you, and planning is how you thread your way between the two without getting crushed." The speaker of these words was the rather infamous first-class petty officer John O'Toole. Destined never to become a chief, he was swimming towards retirement.  Along …

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Adventures in Coastal Living – Thrift

I'm from New York City. But I've lived in New England for so long that lots of it's habits and ways rubbed off on me. Much came from Coastal Maine. there I learned a style of English, cooking, and life that was very different from life in the City. The incidents described here happened in …

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Flashback Friday – Missing Your Timing

From January10, 2020 : The Captain thought it a good idea. Because the Captain thought it a good idea, my wife thought it a good idea. If I hadn't felt railroaded into it, I would have thought it a great idea. Spinney, Kora, aunt Martha and my friend Bob all chimed in, and the consensus …

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Flashback Friday- from 11/22/21 – Brew

For coffee, the search for perfection is the enemy of the good.

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Fix

Daily writing promptDescribe your ideal week.View all responses I've been barging about the shop, pulling out half-finished projects that don't seem to interest me and looking wistfully at old photos of sea and sky. A bad symptom is that I've been spending time looking online for one particular boat I lost track of years ago. Here …

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