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We also have white tail deer in abundance. We came how one night and a doe was reclining on the lawn. She had just finished munching a hydrangea down to the ground. They also vault the 5 ft high...

In the last month we have seen fallow deer here on the Island, and also on my property. I didn't know what they were at first. They are a Eurasian species which is not native to the Americas. They...

I saw a Red Tail go over the house today. In looked up because all the other birds were making a fuss, and the Red Tail was being pursued by some Bluejays. Big bad birds!

I wear an analog watch called "QUARTZ" , $10.00 at Walmart. Keeps excellent time. I have even worn, in an emergency watches that came in a cereal box.

In Beijing the is the Knock-Knock Shop. I...

There is an article in today's NYTs about this. The Italian team, Luna Rossa Challenge wants lower wind speed limits for racing. The wind speed limits are now planned to be 28 knots for the Louis...

I have never had one of those, but I have read about people who have had very vivid and realistic dreams. There is a women who has had repeated and detailed dreams of being in a town in Germany,...

When we were members of Sandy Bay YC, Rockport, Massachusetts, around 1980, there were two "I" boats in the club. One never seemed to get rigged, but the other belonged to the head of the sailing...

When oh when is Texas going to revert to being an independent republic, or maybe a Mexican state?

If I were to start my life over again, I would do it someplace else.

I don't know how big your cat boat is, but could you put it in the moving van. I brought my 17 ft O'Day DaySailor from Massachusetts to Georgia that way, along with all our other stuff. Getting...

Our beach is continually changing, and it seems to be growing. I wonder if the sand is coming south from Sea Island and the islands further north.

We have seen the enemy, and he is us.

That boat's sails look a they came from a Snipe.

Research to find if the town, city, or county where you intend to live has an exemption for the education fraction of the local real estate tax. If it does this can take 70 to 75 % off your real...

At this point in time, the earth should be cooling, not warming. Does anyone have answer as to why? There is only one answer.

I have grandchildren and hope for great grand children, and I AM NOT...

I am also building the 19 ft Ohio Sharpie. First, in regard to the rudder, after a lot of thinking I decided to build it the way Rauel Parker designed it. As designed the rudder is no deeper than...

Also teen pregnancy. Why? How does that fit in?

Unleaded gasoline may be a real factor. There was a sunken highway in Detroit, I don't recall the name, where at times the lead fumes in the air...

Do people of another country have the right to criticize us because of the number of children killed in the US every day, for nothing? YES, because it is preventable and we do nothing, therefore...

Homeland Security won't protect us until every city in the US looks like Tianamin(sp?) Square in Beijing. I have been there. Maybe you would like to live in a police state? Or maybe you would...

I met him once on the deck of his Hudson River sloop "Clearwater" in Norwalk, Connecticut. I was favorable impressed with both the man and his sloop.

There was, and perhaps there still is, an Armchair Sailor bookstore on Thames Street, Newport, Rhode Island

Question: what about that white stuff that is stretched tight over plastic boats that are layed up for the winter? What is it and can it be used? Also there is a heat shrink material that is used...

We know of a person that is bed ridden and dying. Their little dog spends his day curled up at his side and licks his hand.

Where I did live, Massachusetts, is very cosmopolitan, but expensive. There are 80 institutions of higher learning in the Boston metropolitan area, although I don't how they defined the area. It is...

True enough. Georgia did a survey for raccoons infected with BP about five years ago. They found none in Glynn (my county), Macintosh, and Camden counties in a total of 14 raccoons. That is not a...

If you think keeping the coons on the other side of the fence is good enough, Google "Baylisascaris Procyonis". You may not sleep well afterwards, and the eggs remain viable in the dirt for up to...

They do that. Raccoons were pooping in our pool last year. I became tired of trapping them. I purchased a device from GOODLIFE that is an intrusion detector that generates a very high pitched ...

Maybe these young ladies didn't have much else in the way of marketable skills. It was Arkansas after all.

Sort of like retractable dagger boards. I wonder what happens if it brush up against something solid.

An image comes to mind, a war chariot with sword blades attached to the wheels.

Yes, the Sunnis and Shia have been going at it for some time. The Sufis seem to be more tolerant.

The Muslims have been fairly tolerant over most of their history. A Christian or a Jew could live in a Muslim country with relatively little hassle. We are changing that now.

I am ashamed as...

I don't mean to denigrate Qwyneth Paltrow. She is attractive, but, we have prettier girls here on the Island, waiting on tables, working as receptionists. The difference is, THEY ARE NOT FAMOUS.

UMass Lowell is not an Ivy league university, but it is a good university with some very serious students. Many are the first in their family to go to college. There is a big evening division. My...

I refill the B/W cartridge for our HP printer. That works fine. I haven't had as much luck with the three color cartridges, so I buy new ones at Wallmart. You can buy refill kits on-line. I did.

Flag signals were used in WWII by the US Navy. We would see them practice a few miles from where we lived in Darien, Connecticut.

According to today's NYT's, the FBI has told agitated members of congress they had no further legal justification to continue their surveillance.

Are those A-Cats only 18 ft LOA? They look longer.

I would not build a cat in wood, especially a small one, although I know that some people do. My reason is poor ventilation and little or no...

That is neat! B52's have very flexible wings too. I watched them take off from Carswell AFB. The wings took off several thousand feet down the runway ahead of the rest of the plane.

Coming from South Carolina I am not surprised, but there are a surprising number of people elsewhere that believe the law of the land is some that should be followed only when convenient. My opinion...

Perhaps we should also include among BO's secrete backers, the Trilateral Commission and the Elders of Zion.

Ethyl alcohol has 2/3 the energy content of gas, and methyl, 1/2 according to Mark's Mechanical Engineers Handbook. With alcohol you will need to make the mixture richer. The gain is that ethyl...

Boulter Plywood in Summerville, MA has Sitca Spruce. They deliver.

Recently we have been receiving e-mails from people that claim to be from some bank in Scotland and others from a bank in Africa, and elsewhere. They are all notifying me that I am the winner of...

What "Well Regulated Militia"? I don't see any well regulated militias. The only militias I have ever seen were colonial reenactors. In actual history these militias were no match for British...

It sounds like it has a great future. But, there is an infrastructure problem. Suppose you are cruising the Interstate, and you pull into the service area to charge the battery in your electric...

We tried a confederacy for eleven years. It failed, badly.

Lateen sail were not generally used as a principal driving sail in northern latitudes because of that long slender, unstayed yard. It was too weak. They were used as the mizzen on larger square...

A Swamp Yankee is the equivalent of a Po White. The lucky, quick and energetic took the high ground, the others settled in the low swampy places.

Those who don't pronounce their "r"s are welcome in any choir.

The Sunfish sail works well but it is not a traditional lateen, because it has a boom. Traditional lateens do not. With a lateen you may start with the sail to leeward of the mast but when you tack...