Montague Michaels began life on the edge of Boston Bay. As soon as he could walk, he was helping his father catch crabs at the water’s edge to sell to the fine restaurants along the harbor. When his father bought a fishing boat, young Monty would help throw out the lobster traps, then haul them…
Month: August 2019
Coloring Club Plus — 8/31/19
Today’s coloring took me two sessions. Whew! As you can see, the theme besides the owl is guitars. See how many guitars you can find here. OK, on with The Beatles! You’ll be seeing them for awhile as I have gathered the rest of their discography. Yes! Looking at the track listing, it appears I…
Reena’s Exploration Challenge #102
Reena is the host of Reena’s Exploration Challenges. Reena asks us to write to this short sentence: Public figures make us hate their enemies. I decided to deconstruct the sentence and took each word and gave it a working definition: Public = Out in the open figures = icons make = coerce us = a…
Charley the Woodcarver
image link Charley was a wood carver who had learned the trade from his Great Uncle Horatio, aka “Uncle Ray”, a grand adventurer who rejected the comfort of a privileged lifestyle of inherited wealth and who instead chose to globe-trot well into his 80s. Charley was able to spend each January with Uncle Ray, who…
Coloring Club Plus — 8/30/19
With the Beatles is the second studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. It was released on November 22, 1963 (the same day when the 35th President of the United States John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, TX), on Parlophone, exactly eight months after the band’s debut Please Please Me. The album…
Salsa Mexicana Cocida
I decided to try one of Irene’s delicious recipes. Irene’s blog is My Slice of Mexico. The recipe I chose to make is Salsa Mexicana Cocida. I had about a dozen ripened and ripening tomatoes from the two plants that are off-the-charts prolific with large flavorful fruit. (The other plants I started from seed from…
The Silver Vortex
Remy and I met in a rare book store on Monopoly Boulevard in Boston. Not only did we have an interest in rare books in common, but we loved finding obscure historical places to explore that we’d found in them. In a 15th century tome, the Romana Obscura (RO), we were able to acquire for…
Tao Talk 