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August 25, 2013

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Fall is just around the corner.  Went for a walk with a neighbor tonight.  We used to walk every Sunday until she hurt her foot.  We were busy catching up and since she is not a photo nut like me – only took a few pictures.  The leaves caught my eye.  Several people told me that the Farmer’s Almanac is predicting a cold winter and a big snow storm the first weekend in February which is Super Bowl weekend and this year the Super Bowl is going to be outside in New Jersey.  Will have to wait and see how accurate they are

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Hooper Straight Lighthouse at the Chesapeake Maritime Museum in St Michaels

The Hooper Strait Lighthouse, now standing on Navy Point, was originally built in 1879 to light the way for boats passing through the shallow, dangerous shoals of Hooper Strait, a thoroughfare for boats bound from the Chesapeake Bay across Tangier Sound to Deals Island or places along the Nanticoke and Wicomico Rivers. As a “screwpile” lighthouse, it is built on special iron pilings which were tipped with a screw that could be turned into the muddy bottom for a depth of 10 feet or more. The Museum’s lighthouse is the second lighthouse constructed at Hooper Strait – the first one was destroyed by ice in 1877. 

 

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We bought some glass fishing balls in Japan many years ago.  The balls are used for fishing floats. They came with some netting so you could hang them.   We made a blue one into a hanging lamp and had it hanging in our living room window for a number of years.  Now we have a red one and a blue one hanging from our deck.  The nets are getting old and one finally broke about a month ago.  We have been trying to find some new ones but didn’t have any luck.  So when we got off the boat in St Michaels we noticed two men making some nets.  This gentleman started making nets when he was 15 years old and he is now 85 years old.  We told him what we were looking for and ended up buying a shopping bag made out of netting and another net.  Then he told us that he had just gotten an email from someone asking if they could make a net for some glass fishing balls.  It’s a small world.    I promised to email him a picture of the ball in the net.  He said if it didn’t work he could make one bigger or smaller.