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Category Archives: The House
A Quiet Expansive Stillness
It’s way too soon, but it feels like summer already here on Skinny Island. Eighty degrees at 11:00 a.m., and will hit ninety on the mainland. Our water temperature still hovering at 69, so we’ll have that moderating effect and … Continue reading
Mornings
We are morning people. We figure we’ve seen just about every sunrise of our fifteen years here. What was born out of necessity a long time ago, getting to work, has become habit, with a little pathology thrown in. I … Continue reading
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Transitions, etc.
Two large flights of migratory birds observed winging north out over the ocean this morning. Ducks; Grebes; I couldn’t tell. Other Snow Birds need to follow suit. Many dead Cannonball jelly fish and crabs in surf line. These jellies are … Continue reading
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The Watering
Pre-sun beach walk in light south-west breeze; ocean gray and glassy; opaque, colorless sky; subtle colorations of sand discernible and clear as road signs: red sand soft and giving, slow-going; gray, a firmer cushion; white, sidewalk hard for striding out. … Continue reading
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Shuffleboard, etc.
Big, heaving ocean this morning after all night northeast wind. This is March; it might stay relatively warm, but it’s going to rough us up a little in the process. A little light rain before dawn this morning as front … Continue reading
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Feral Zen
The Feral Poet likes to say, “If you meet the Buddha on the beach, watch your surfboard.” We are not sure what he means by that, but it is typical of his enigmatic, “can’t pin me down” nature. He showed … Continue reading
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Pieces Parts
Wild and raw. Front moving through early with substantial rain and stiff wind from north-northwest. One of those situations when the high temperature for the day occurs at six a.m. then drops all day. Ocean moving like a big white-capped … Continue reading
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The Cats
We each brought a cat to this house on Skinny Island after, as John Lennon once quipped, “The separation didn’t work out.” Meemaw’s Melba, a two-year old tabby, used to the wide driveways and lush lawns of suburbia; and Cecil, … Continue reading
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In the Beginning . . .
I moved in here before we were actually the owners of this place. We were worried it might not pass the bank inspection prior to closing; it had stood vacant for quite some time, and we thought we needed to … Continue reading
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This Old House, Etc.
This house was built in 1949, which makes it almost as ancient as me. I like that. I like old houses, old jeans, old guitars, old surfboards. Only one of the four houses in which we’ve lived was new, and … Continue reading
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