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Wednesday, August 31. 2011

Crowded

Still without phone, intertunnel, and TV (but who needs TV?). Posting this memo from a very crowded library - nobody around here has intertunnel connections this week. Even the cell towers got screwed up, somehow.


I appreciate everybody's pitching in to keep our Maggie's "product" coming. All I can really do is to recycle old items, due to the lines here at the library machines.



 

Posted by Bird Dog at 09:30 | Comments (8) | Trackbacks (0)

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That is a great picture - I really like it. A lot.
#1 Tom Francis on 2011-08-31 10:28 (Reply)
BD,

I...ho.....tha..........and........wet.......goth............Really........................a.........ack.



Best, and holding you all in our thoughts/prayers for speedy return to *normal*.
#2 Fred Zeppelin on 2011-08-31 12:10 (Reply)
Why kind of boat is the 3rd boat in with the square nose?

Looks like some kind of tow barge?
#3 Mark M on 2011-08-31 12:29 (Reply)
Close - it's called a punt. Just an offhand guess, the based on the enclosed box and the slide rails, I'd guess its used for shallow water angling or duck hunting. It could also be used for a quickie build "Sunfish" type boat. In any case, that's what it is - use is a mystery.
#3.1 Tom Francis on 2011-08-31 14:45 (Reply)
Ok--so what if it isn't even Labor Day yet?

http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?zoneid=MTZ002
#4 apple pie on 2011-08-31 13:07 (Reply)
Tom ... A punt, eh. When we visited England back in the 1980s, we saw a flock of those on the river that runs along the Backs in Cambridge. You pole them, don't you, rather than row them? And incautious or unskilled punters can end up clinging to the top of the pole while the boat slides away beneath them. How embarrassing.

Marianne
#5 Marianne Matthews on 2011-08-31 15:02 (Reply)
Have you thought about getting a tablet, like an iPad, for just such situations as this?
#6 Alan Kellogg (Link) on 2011-08-31 18:55 (Reply)
The 3rd boat doesn't look like any PUNT I've ever seen. There is not sidewall. It is flat on top, i.e. no cockpit.

It just looks like some barge you would tow behind another boat.

Anyone else have an idea what it could be?
#7 Mark M on 2011-08-31 19:40 (Reply)

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