The ladies were busy getting ready for the cruise the first week of October and departed Newmarket on the eighth. We finally finished assembling the IKEA furniture. We also started getting ready for the holiday: Weather was good for enjoying a fire. BOIDS Fun with Food Benji, Baya and Friends The ladies got off on […]

Not too much to say. We have been busy with yard work and getting ready for the ladies to go on a Grand Africa Cruise. They got their shots the week before I did. I first got flu and rsv, and reacted to the rsv shot. A week later I got a covid booster. We

October 30 – Suez Canal Night Before Entering Suez. October 28 – Limassol Cyprus More Tombs of the Kings and Mosaics of Dionysus… Cyprus Sail Away October 26 – Souda Greece On the bus to Knossos/Heraklion. October 24 – La Goullete Tunisia (Tunis) First stop is Carthage, Punic and Roman ruins. They were supposed to

September is getting by me. There is still a lot of yard work to do. A neighbor cleared some invasives from the property line between our yards and we burned the brush. It took two days to get most of it burned. The pile was large enough that it continued burning a day and a

I had a few August pictures left over and planned to roll them into early September. But they tell an amusing story, so here goes. Mammals We have been seeing this buck hanging around. Apparently he likes apples. I have been noticing fox scat under the bird feeders and we have been seeing fewer SQRLS

This is unusual for me to accumulate pictures for a month and only do one blog to cover a months activities. I got way behind and this is an easy way to catch up. This is not my preferred style but it will have to do. Yard Work We finally got around to having the

The craft show started the Sunday we got home from our Chatham adventure. We were to tired to drive up to the craft show that Sunday. It was just as well as we heard it was totally mobbed that day. We waited until midweek and we picked a day with nice weather. The day before

Last year we brought two kayaks and mostly used the pond for fishing. Because we had a bigger group, we brought six kayaks this year. The mix was between fishing and swimming. We had a small beach and the crowd did quite a bit of swimming. The fishery was just as good as it was

This blog includes events pre vacation, while the clan was gathering and post vacation, while the clan was dispersing. We ate at La Katrina, The Hungry Lobster, Newick’s Lobster House, Oak House and Kume, both in Newmarket and Epping because Newmarket had a long wait. We tended to cook for ourselves in Chatham and only

This is an update to the previous blog. These pictures are from the first of a two day striper fishing adventure. This day we had two boats out fishing. The fishing boats left the docks as 5:00 AM. For me, this meant we had to get ready at 3:45 AM. I don’t know how but