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So it looks like most folks and their loved ones are safe, but some are dealing with damage and post-flood issues. Not just in Florida – in Georgia, Cuba, much of the Caribbean, and don’t forget Texas and Louisiana. And of course Mexico and the ongoing conflagrations in Oregon. There’s a world of pain out there. Likely just a harbinger we’ll look back on as a missed “warning”.

On a much-needed, more positive note, we have some neat pictures today – enjoy!

Today, pictures from valued commenter RedDirtGirl.

Spent the week at our family’s house on a small island off the coast of Maine.

The family house

Gott’s Island Maine

Point Field Farm

What used to be the island village, when it was a year-round fishing community, about 80 years ago.

Me getting out of frigid water.

50% glad-you’re-back.
50% stink-eye.

 

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  9. 9.

    satby

    @RedDirtGirl: that was the special revenge of one of my dearest cats long ago. Her name was Fink because she could be such a brat, but she was also the sweetest cat when she wanted to be.

    What a great looking place for a relaxing vacation!

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    Betty Cracker

    New England fishing villages are the most picturesque places in the world, in my book. If I were made of hardier stock, I’d go live in one. What do you see while snorkeling there?

  13. 13.

    maurinsky

    The water off the coast of Maine is brutal, but I honestly thought I was going to get frostbite when I dipped my toes in the Pacific.

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    MomSense

    I love Gott’s Island. These photos remind me I need to take a kayaking trip there next summer. Many of my friends kayak all winter but that is way too intense for me. I can barely handle the summer ocean temps, although the water is warmer than the air temp in winter.

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    Betty Cracker

    @JPL: I’ll do a post on it at some point, maybe later today. We made it home last night. Parts of our fence got blown away, the banana trees are flattened, and the yard, driveway, bar, walkways, etc., are carpeted with bamboo leaves, but aside from that, we’re fine. We even have electricity. No one else in my family does!

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    Another Scott

    @Betty Cracker: Weather is chaotic – it’s impossible to predict perfectly. Unfortunately. Sorry you ended up heading into the storm rather than away, but I’m glad that everything is mostly Ok at the homestead.

    Good luck with the cleanup. Remember, most injuries and deaths happen after the storm passes, so be careful!

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  21. 21.

    Barbara

    @maurinsky: A year ago, in June, I happened to be on the Pacific Coast one weekend (Santa Barbara) and the Atlantic Coast the next (Norfolk). I can attest that the Pacific Ocean felt much colder.

    Great pictures of Maine — I especially love the sky in the second.

  23. 23.

    cosima

    That is an amazing place to be able to get away from. I’m very envious. Very different from our family’s cabin in Talkeetna (walking to the outhouse terrified me, particularly in the dark, but daylight was no guarantee that you wouldn’t meet unpleasant things).

    On a separate note, I tried to submit some photos of Scotland via the super speedy form, and spent ages uploading & adding context and it said the link didn’t work after all of that. Any way to find out if it actually went through (not sure I have it in me to do that all over again!)?

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    Just One More Canuck

    @Betty Cracker: that’s good! (yeah, good, that’s it) If they were acting normally, that means they weren’t stressed, and just thought they were out for a ride with you and Mr. Cracker and the chickens

    We had our cat (Elsa the wonder nut) lodged at our vet for a couple of weeks – when she got home, she started sneezing repeatedly – we took her back in and they said it was a reaction to stress – she’s fine now (sleeping behind me as I type)

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    RedDirtGirl

    @Betty Cracker: My fella saw mostly sea urchins, a few shot gun shells and some razor clam shells. I was trying out the snorkel in that pic but it didn’t fit. I mostly floated around on an innertube.

  27. 27.

    RedDirtGirl

    @MomSense: So cool that you’ve been there. Not many people know of it since there is no ferry service. Where do you live? Maybe we can have a BJ meet-up/cook-out next summer!

  29. 29.

    Mnemosyne

    The cat picture reminds me of last week, when I had to take Charlotte to the vet. She was still mad about it later that night, but she still wanted her bedtime snuggles, so she settled down facing away from me rather than doing nose boops for a while like she usually does. Silly kitty!

  32. 32.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @RedDirtGirl:

    and a kid sized hole next to it!

    That’s good, when I was a kid a neighbor kid fell into the too large for him hole. Not pretty, had to get his stomach pumped and spent several days in the hospital.

  33. 33.

    cosima

    @RedDirtGirl: I really dislike outhouses — far beyond what a normal aversion would be, most likely due to walking (from a young age) from the cabin to the outhouse in the forest of the Alaskan wilderness. We once rented a house in Halibut Cove, one of my favourite places in Alaska — it was a big beautiful house, but it had an outhouse, a very fancy one. One of the women staying there with us, visiting from TX, refused to use it. I can’t remember how that was ultimately dealt with, but there weren’t really many options…

  35. 35.

    Alain the site fixer

    @cosima: they aren’t in the system – email them using the link above. Should you need to, send them in two or more emails (if they are huge)

  38. 38.

    Origuy

    I once saw a real estate ad for a house in rural Indiana which had “an outdoor bath with a path”. We had one of those until I was five.

  39. 39.

    Aleta

    @RedDirtGirl: We have that too (the little and big holes, with handmade wooden lids for each) in the outhouse at my parents/grandparent’s cabin.

    There’s a barn near where I live now that still has an outhouse tacked on at each end. Maybe so they didn’t have to dig a new hole and move the outhouse when a hole filled up? Just switch to the other side and let the other one compost down. No idea though.

    Your photos are gorgeous. They have that feel. Of feeling oneself in another life, in the kind of light that could change you. I like the old apple trees.

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