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Category Archives: The House
Reflections on a Sunrise
We are early risers. We’ve had to notify our local newspaper circulation department to please make us first on the delivery route. Having become creatures of habit, we have our coffee and read the paper, while glancing at the weather … Continue reading
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Chiaroscuro
Chiaroscuro: an effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something. We are endlessly entertained and fascinated by the play of light in and about The Little Hacienda. The house, being … Continue reading
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Coming Back
Juan Ponce DeLeon, returning to his university after five years’ imprisonment by the Inquisition, resumed his lectures with the words, “As we were saying yesterday . . .” While we have not been imprisoned by the Inquisition, or anything else … Continue reading
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Scorcher
A real scorcher on Skinny Island today, 92 degrees by 11 a.m. and inching up through early afternoon, humidity close to that, just little zephyr winds. Too hot for the beach even, a day to move very little. Just sit under … Continue reading
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The Beach Fashionista
We have arrived at an annual fashion milestone here at the little hacienda, that being the wearing of swim trunks the entire day. Actually, we probably reached this state more than a week ago, but somnolence being what it is, … Continue reading
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Caught Napping
It is a rare day indeed that we do not partake of a mid-day nap here in the little hacienda on Skinny Island. We find it a necessity for well-being, as well as a small contribution in the continuance of … Continue reading
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Good Company, Good Food, Good Surf
Truly summer weather now, hot and humid, with stunning blue skies, just the way we like it. Perfect beach weather. We are fortunate to have as our guest for a few days, all the way from Portland, a Librarian of … Continue reading
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Dog Days of April
Can’t remember a warmer April here on Skinny Island. We normally would have two or three nice days, say topping out in the mid-seventies, then cool and windy for a week, a little rain, cycling like that. This year we’ve … Continue reading
Indigos, Incence, and Black-bellied Plover
These perfect days are becoming sweetly monotonous. Overnight lows in the 50s, daytime highs in the low 80s, cloudless sky, light morning winds mounting to a good sea breeze by late afternoon, windows all open wide. Startled a very big … Continue reading
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Appreciatively Feral
If nothing else the Feral Poet is appreciative of his residency on Skinny Island, and his proximity to the ocean. It “informs and defines his being,” he says. Call to Worship Timeless impermanence: at nine a.m. a south wind turns … Continue reading
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