You know how sometimes you can just be going along, doing what you do, because you have to, not too engaged with the work and only waiting for 5:00 to come around? It’s been one of those days. I’ve been doing maintenance on websites, finding bugs and zapping them, updating bits and pieces of text. [...]
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- Two of the 10,000 (at least) reasons Whidbey Island will keep on rocking
- One for the books, and maybe a nautilus shaped lamp - a bronze octopus table
- Water People: Don't just get on Drewslist, get to know Drew
- Tidal Life Gear Review: Merrell Pace Glove
- Life on the edge: Suddenly there's no there there anymore
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Before Today
Tidal Life Columns from the South Whidbey Record
- A few sunny February days and island minds turn to mulch
- Atwitter over hedgerows
- Now you're cooking with CSA
- Don't rain on my rain garden
- Drifting to where Puget Sound starts
- Green is good, except up there
- Hey Gardener! Leave that tree alone
- Let's blame Elmer Fudd for our itchy trigger fingers
- Pickled or par-boiled, this is going to change the way we eat oysters
- The other view of the view
- The story on the water
- There’s always something new to learn about our most common substance
- Water lover's gift guide
- Waterfront Omnium-Gatherum
- We need to learn to look beyond the flashy surface
- What we talk about when we talk about Puget Sound
- Whidbey is some place; keep up the good work
- Will we choose fashion or substance?
- How to cheat at enviro-living: First step, steal the idea for a column
- Practical protection: The best defense is a good offense
- The waterfront takes care of itself, but I’d sure like to be there
- Certain Disaster: Greenies wreck Island economy by saving a forest
- Look out: Something scary could be coming this way
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Sailing on Adventuress – Part 2
Posted by nancy on June 24, 2010 at 12:10 am.
Adventuress is a beautiful vessel, long and sleek and ship shape. For detail mongers, she’s a Gaff Topsail Two-masted Schooner measuring 133 feet from the tip of her bowsprit to the up tilted crown of her stern … for which there is probably a more accurate and saltier term. Her rig stands 110 feet [...]
