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From Gerry Sell's Writing Studio and Bait Shop
Bugs, invading plants, and the trouble with LUST
I tell you, there is no end to the misadventures that are possible. We are in the midst of the annual Flight of the Miserable Little Black Helicopters. I do not know what they are, but I’d be glad to have a name to pin to them, so that I could curse them by it. […]
Forgotten forget-me-nots
May 28, 2009
It is useful to have younger sisters. That way when your memory goes to blazes you have someone to help you keep track. My sister Cheri in particular has a sturdy filing cabinet in her capacious mind, and is often referred to as The Family Archive. She lives in North Carolina, so it is inconvenient […]
Posted in: Adventures outdoors
Frugal Bugle: Free house
May 28, 2009
Every Up North grocery store has a community bulletin board somewhere near the entrance. Here customers may post their business cards, their flyers about spaghetti supper fundraisers for the school band, their For Sale notices featuring photos of trucks or bedroom furniture. But even at the Eastport Market, a place notably tolerant of eccentricity in […]
Posted in: Frugal Bugle
It’s raining lovely rain
May 27, 2009
Practically everywhere in the Township is within view of a largish body of water, so it’s odd to see puffs of dust as we drive sandy two-tracks, or to hear the crunch of dry leaves as we walk along the lane behind the Writing Studio and Bait Shop. That’s the way it’s been for much […]
Posted in: Adventures outdoors
You never know what you’ll find in an old barn
May 25, 2009
While I was wandering around the King family’s orchards taking pictures of spring blossoms and swarming bees I ran into Betsy King, who was, as always, busy doing something. (If we could bottle Betsy we would have no need for imported oil.) On this particular occasion, she was clearing out the odds and ends that had accumulated […]
Posted in: Torch Lake memories
For Memorial Day Weekend: A sunset from Babs
May 24, 2009
Babs wrote that she’s “always a sucker for a good sunset and this one seemed to make the cut.” Well I guess so. I particularly like the cat and the fisherman in the clouds. What, you can’t see them? OK, maybe that’s a guitar, not a fishing pole, but it’s definitely a cat. What I […]
Posted in: Babs Young photos
Books in Northport
- Color is a developing story. So is my bookshop.
- October's Quiet Entrance
- Are you looking for color?
- "Locals' Summer" Comes 'Round Again
- Here Now and Looking Ahead
- Trees, Dogs, Books, Musings
- As August Slip-Slides Away
- Past Mid-Summer to Mid-August
- Recent Past in Village and at Home, In the Midst, and Coming Events
- Books, Dog, Tree Guy, Me, and More
Carsten in Denmark
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May 29, 2009
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