Whoopie Pies

I go to this one gas station every so often for cheap gas, and as I stood there this one particular time, this one particular early morning, numbly filling my tank, I suddenly had an unexplainable desire to indulge in a whoopie pie. Odd, I thought at this hour, that I should crave a whoopie pie.... but then it clicked as the little mini-mart's marketing ploy revealed itself to my senses... (see the list in the photo - click to enlarge)

"Gotta move those whoopie pies - put 'em on the thank list."

Martha's Vineyard Ferry Ride

It has rained almost every day this month of June. With a little luck, though, Amy and I picked the two dry days in the month to go to Martha's Vineyard. The wee hours of Sunday Morning (a couple weeks ago) started out in foggy drizzle, but as our ferry, "Martha's Vineyard" pulled out of Woods Hole, the fog was well on it's way to being completely burned off. By the time we arrived in Vineyard Haven, it was clear and sunny, remaining that way through Monday night. (We were off on a quick mid-week, early-summer cheap-hotel last-blast before the busy summer season) Here are the pics from the ride over. More up later.

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Testing the slideshow Thingy from flickr (Rockport Photos)

OK... not bad, flickr... this is kinda cool. Click the arrow in the center to start the show. To see it as a full-screen slideshow, click the little "4-arrows-out" icon on the bottom right of the module.
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(It's windy as all hell out... welcome summer)

A Cape Cod Box Turtle!

Look what Will and I found on our walk along the power lines. Thanks Keith and Evangelina for the off-road baby jogger. We can go anywhere with that thing!

This is an Eastern Box Turtle (Terrapene carolina carolina) . This one is a female I'm guessing because she has brown eyes. Apparently, the females have brown eyes and the males have red ones. I wondered if she was making a nest. I know the snapping turtles are at it this time of year, but I didn't see any disturbed dirt around her.

Will loved it, but she closed herself up pretty quickly and never poked her head out again after I handed her over to Will. Good idea. He eats everything.

Are we there yet, are we there yet...

The other night Amy and I were driving home from some event somewhere off-cape... (there's at least one commitment every weekend, somewhere, and it will be that way through December). So yeah, the first 3 weeks of summer have flown by (since the eels), it's 1 am and I've got a couple minutes to myself... Anyway, that's not where I was going with this...

So we're driving home and I noticed a new sign on the side of the road on Route 6 on Cape Cod. It was a mile sign. I'm not talking about one of those little 2 x 6 single-digit green rectangles on a post, put there, i'm sure, to occupy your mind on long drives through such mundane landscapes as kansas or nebaska. This thing was a HUGE sign. I'd say it had to be 14 x 18 inches or so. It was a big green sign with typical white letters: "Mile 66."

"Odd" I thought. They need such a big sign for a mile marker. But, that wasn't the oddest part. It wasn't that they had the need to make every mile sign bigger and extremely conspicuous, but about 5 seconds along I saw another one... "Mile 66.1" ... Now THAT was ODD! Sure enough, there was one every TENTH OF A MILE the same size, marking every 10th of a mile that you'd passed since the last. Now I ask wha.. WHA... What FOR??! The only thing Amy and I could come up with was it was some kind of government work project to stimulate our dead economy... but really... REALLY! Do we really need a reminder that we're not where we want to be EVERY SIX SECONDS??? And what a waste. (photo is the next day going the other way, so multiply the waste by 2)

Any other ideas what this is for?