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Just a nice calm, soothing picture of moored rowboats and dories at rest as early morning fog on Isle au Haut Maine begins to slowly burn off.

A couple of years ago a friend told me that the Lincoln Council on Aging and Human Services was trying to form a “Doo Wop” singing group. I’ve always loved lost 45’s and o-l-d Doo Wop songs from the 50’s and 60’s, so I thought I’d check it out. Well, only a handful of people showed up, and even fewer come back for the second rehearsal, but eight or so folks decided to give it a go. At 77 I am the youngest of the group, with our senior member being 96 (the gentleman third from the left). Our “director”…

I KNOW what you’re thinking and I just want you to know that I’d never do this in my own pool. Also, you might be thinking we were having our very own oversize “Manakin Pis” statue installed to add some real class and good taste to our pool area. Sorry to disappoint, but this is actually what it looks like when you have a HUGE water truck come and refill the pool after some major renovations. Boring.

A few years ago I started playing an online game on my phone where you had to draw a sketch/picture to depict a “secret word” given to you. As you might have guessed, the word was “Titanic”, and although the art work couldn’t be more juvenile, the image perfectly captures the subject at hand…IMHO!! Did you know the Captain of the Titantic was Captain SMITH…no relation as far as I know.  From this image you might surmise that Captain Peter “Wrong Way” Peachfuzz was in command.

Lots of people love cribbage…lots more have no idea of what it is or how it is played. I learned to play in my teens while working in Newfoundland and Quebec-Labrador during the summer. If you don’t know anything about the game, card combinations that add together to equal exactly 15 are worth 2 points. A very poor hand might one have only two “15” combinations worth two points each and nothing else, in which case the player might say when totaling up the points in their hand, “Fifteen 2, Fifteen 4 and the Rest Don’t Score.” and then advance…

A few years ago, on a warm early spring day, Tucker, Lucca and I took a trip to take a walk on Salisbury Beach, just south of the Massachusetts/New Hampshire border. We met a woman who had this great tattoo on her foot she had done in remembrance of her late golden retriever, Tucker. She was delighted when Tucker asked if we could take a picture as a keepsake in remembrance of Tucker, Lucca and our beloved golden, Jackson.  Love the footprint as well as the choice of font!

AMAZING!! This is not my photo, but I sure do love it!  It is a picture of Jerry Garcia performing in front of the Grateful Dead’s “Wall of Sound” PA system. The system, created by audio engineer Owsley Stanley for the band’s 1974 tour, weighed over 70 tons and included hundreds of speakers and amplifiers, standing over three stories tall. (A story can be anywhere between 10 feet to 14 feet. At a minimum this “wall” was 30 feet high!!)To keep the height of the photo to a more manageable size, I cropped off the top four rows of amps.

In October of 2025, Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS), passed over parts of North America. Tucker and I were lucky to have a wonderfully unobstructed view as the meteor whizzed right over Lincoln. Pretty neat sight@

So I was sitting on the porch in Nantucket and I looked up and saw this contrail. One does not have to be a contrail genius to know this is not your average, ordinary contrail. It’s fun to conjure up in one’s mind what might have been going on in the cockpit!! Hot coffee in the lap?