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A perfect day: clear skies, temperature in mid-seventies, light winds, made even better by the first paddle out of the season.  We were working on re-glazing some of the 20-odd, 60- year-old windows on the little hacienda this morning and … Continue reading →

OK, this is weird.  Yesterday I related how a small iridescent beetle landed on my arm for a brief stay as I sat in the sun in a somnolent state.  I glibly noted I probably wouldn’t be seeing it again. … Continue reading →

Invigorating morning trimming old branches from Texas Sable palms out back with chain saw.  As they grow the lower branches die, leaving broken off stubs in a cross-hatch pattern circling the trunk.  Ultimately these decay even more when trimmed close, … Continue reading →

We saw the first Skink of spring this morning, crawling up between the planks of the back deck.  For the uninitiated, uninformed and just plain slow, a Skink (family Scincidae)  is a fat bluish lizard that looks like a short … Continue reading →

Ah, a relative blessed quiet has descended on Skinny Island in our brief absence; the motorcycles are gone, poof, vanished, but coming back into the town and crossing the bridge the automobile traffic was like a holiday weekend, not a … Continue reading →

The Feral Poet doesn’t care much for Daytona Bike Week, especially the last weekend, when good weather like we’re having makes A1A a thunderous spectacle of overheated faux machismo.  He dropped off this one poem before splitting for the Gulf coast. … Continue reading →

We’ve talked a good bit about our relative isolation here on Skinny Island, our reverence for the quiet, simple, small life dictated by the ocean and the changing seasons, but something else is happening here now as well, something unforseen … Continue reading →

Multiple flights of large numbers of pelicans the past few days, headed south to north.  Must be filling in back up the peninsula from wintering farther south. Fifteen to twenty in a group, they glide along the dune line, or over the … Continue reading →

Intermittent showers overnight, then a lull at dawn during which we were able to get in a beach walk under dark, rolling clouds.  Substantial rain began as we ascended the dune walkover.  Garden and St Francis quite pleased.  Everything is … Continue reading →

An old dear friend came to visit with us in the little house on Skinny Island last night.  We have known him for 50 years, but haven’t seen him for 25.  He has been living out in the mountain west … Continue reading →