Monthly Archives: August 2019

Dorian Update #1

1722 hrs, 8/31/19: It was a beautiful day on Skinny Island; a good breeze off the ocean; temp in the upper 80s, a shower once off the ocean.  We turned off the air last night, and let it blow through … Continue reading

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Waiting for Dorian

With apologies to Samuel Beckett, we are not Waiting for Godot here on Skinny Island, but waiting for hurricane Dorian.  You may have heard about it, now a category 3 storm bearing down on the Bahamas, with Florida in its … Continue reading

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Billy Dean Sam

No, we haven’t fallen off the globe, which turns out to be round rather than flat, meaning that you never get to an edge; or rather there are many edges, but none precipitous enough to present real calamity; the whole … Continue reading

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August

We love August here on Skinny Island.  Maybe it’s the native in us.  Pretty much everybody else has had enough of summer by now, although for the second year running it’s been mild in these parts.  It’s been much worse … Continue reading

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