It’s time to tell the Mercury outboard story. The beauty of the internet is if you google specific words, you can bring to the surface any subject out of trillions of bits of information. Consider the words Mercury Outboard and Lemon….now that’s a...
We’re having a beautiful autumn here with the usual fall colors. Our garden, while mostly under construction, has yielded many potatoes and not much else. Here’s the new bird houses and our local maples above the deer-fenced garden area. B elow is...
Next in line is building our gazebo on the salt chuck (or slough as some prefer to call it). First thing to do is locate the position of the structure. We engage several mystics that utilize Feng Shue (just kidding)–we’ve already figured this out. Because...
Our old dock has about had it. It’s probably close to 100 years old and many of the beams are rotten, even missing. Also the crane/winch is unsafe and we’re lifting 250 lb. propane tanks up out of our boat–not a good thing to do with a faulty...
Amidst all our Spring gardening, we get a visit from a wolf! We’re sitting at our kitchen table when a deer dashes by–nothing but hooves and white tail. We grab the camera knowing something is chasing it: Martina takes about two dozen photos–this is...
It’s time to get to work. We hire an excavator and buy a bunch more yellow cedar from Prince of Wales Island and roll up our sleeves. Our local landing craft the “RB” unloaded three batches of lumber for this project. Last year we hand carried each...
