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Typical is a concept I am no longer comfortable with. I read the weather report, and the air is polluted with the by-products of forest fires. A presidential candidate promises that if he is elected, we'll never have to vote again. And it's getting harder and harder to get to see a medical practitioner. I'm …
Last fall torrential rains and floods hit our area. People think I'm joking when I tell them I could have taken a small sailboat down the state route from my town to the next. With the centerboard up there was enough water to sail on. Of course, I'd have been bailing the water out all the way - it was coming down …
There is no use denying it. Everyone in the house has a personal library except the kittens and the dog. When my oldest son moved out, he took his with him, and we swear the house groaned in relief, but only temporarily. We hurried to fill the available space.Mine comprises books on carving, maritime history, …
We watched another of those AI destroys the World Sci-Fi thrillers last night. I found myself drifting off to sleep. The promise of tech seems both too much and too little these days. Too little foresight gives us microplastics invading our food and bodies, and too much gives us more work.More work. Yes, more. Office …
I was cleaning up in the basement the other day and found some buried things that I had forgotten. One was this practice, Bellamy Eagle. I taught marine carving for about six years. Another teacher had created the course, and I took over when he became ill. I tweaked the curriculum to suit my approaches …
I have a problem with authority. It goes back to when I was young, and while I've moderated it a bit, I'll always be the guy who is skeptical of a gold-plated authority spouting the Creed on a stool. Some of this derives from my days on the road as a Folkie, folksinger, and Pius …
And the number is...149 The first is a pair of wedding dolls found in the Oldies Antique Marketplace in Newburyport, MA. The second is a shot of Portland Head Light. Number three is a carved figure of a sailor from the Peabody Essex Museum. Fourth is a carved cherry burl bowl. Number five is a …
My wife joked about last year's squash patch and that there were pumpkins in the tree. OK, so it did get a bit out of hand.This year, I switched mainly to tall thirty-inch raised beds to save my back and knees. I used the Lasagna Method to fill the beds with small branches, leaf mulch, …
Marcus: It's hard work supervising Dad's model railroad layout. All those little people and cars need to be moved about, and he needs help getting the trains onto the right track. That's why, just yesterday, I had to chase my sister, Sabrina, off. She has no concept of railroading. Imagine putting that passenger car onto …
Whenever I think about the chicken or egg problem, I think back to another puzzle. When I was a child, someone we visited in the family had one of those mirror sets that allowed you to see the back and front simultaneously through mirrors that opposed each other. Feeling silly, My sister and I would …
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