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Trolling all the way to the Bank 20 Aug 2013 | 04:55 pm
We knew it was a long shot. Kevin and I are determined, this year, to catch a bluefin tuna. We caught one once before, two years ago, but we didn’t really catch it. Our friend Jon took us out on his ...
Gardening: The road to hell 13 Aug 2013 | 02:34 am
You know how they say a Republican is a Democrat who’s been mugged? You don’t? Well, I guess they don’t say that so much anymore. But they used to. Honest. And, in that same vein, but perhaps without ...
In memory: Paul Desilets 8 Aug 2013 | 08:29 pm
I’d like to introduce you to our friend Paul Desilets, who died last week, of cancer. We know Paul and his wife, Claire, because they are the beekeeping backbone of Cape Cod. They run a business poll...
The bottom-dwellers 6 Aug 2013 | 06:41 am
Do you remember King Friday XIII, from Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood? The King serves to remind us both that Fred Rogers was extraordinarily good at crafting children’s entertainment that was accessible wi...
Fishing for glory 28 Jul 2013 | 08:41 pm
We fished in a tournament yesterday, and we lost. The tournament was the annual Ladies Shoal Troll, a benefit for breast cancer research. Only women can fish, although men can (and do) captain the bo...
Time, tide, and temperature 19 Jul 2013 | 10:37 pm
It’s been hot here. The average highs on Cape Cod through most of July and August are in the seventies. The high seventies, mostly, but even the high seventies are pretty moderate, by summer standard...
Putting the DIY in dinghy 7 Jul 2013 | 10:31 pm
It has been hot the last couple of days, and Kevin and I have been spending a lot of time in or near the 110-acre pond that is our backyard. The breeze comes off it, up the slope to our house, and kee...
The smartest chicken in the world 4 Jul 2013 | 05:50 am
I am not a romantic. My husband will vouch for me here. When we got married, it was a cut-and-dried affair. We went down to City Hall with our two oldest friends and, eight seconds later, we were mar...
Poor Man’s Lobster Rolls 28 Jun 2013 | 06:59 pm
We should all be suspicious of any recipe called “poor man’s” anything. No good can come of imitating a really good expensive thing with a less good inexpensive thing. Unless, of course, you happen t...
Of pigs and priorities 20 Jun 2013 | 03:50 am
The latest salvo in the GMO wars came last week, and it hit close to home because pigs were involved. If you follow these issues, you may have seen the paper. The researchers divided a group of pigs ...
