claudia's surf city

A new version of What's in the Truck. Guess  how much it cost to take this truckload of craperoni to the dump? Worth every penny.

Which do you think it will be?

It's all over but the—tiling, trim, final plumbing. Hope to get that underway soon. All of y'all who have ever showered in the showe...

We bought one another these watches some 30 years ago, back when the world was our oyster. Nothing is perpetual. But we're still keeping...

Hoping to obviate the necessity of doing rush work in the spring, the shower manufacture continues. Today the plumber resolders the pipes he...

Before I can sail away on the Block Island ferry, there are a few things I have to do. Like, I have to put the candles and soap in a contain...

There are lots of trite things to be said about the fall—and I've said them—but I'll say again that the seas are bluer and the skies...

Once Mama and DaddyMan and Baby (and a number of sheets and towels, some pasta sauce, a bag of dog food) were all packed up there was barely...

Here's the problem: One power company (also one gas station, same owner as the power company, one transfer station for trash, same owner...

Three generations deal with at least three generations of sheets. Many, many sheets to the wind. Today: towels.

Yes, I'm dogging it, blogwise. I'll be back witcha after we finish sorting all the damn linens in two summer houses. Haven't yet...

Baby entertained a host of relatives this weekend—my ex-in-laws, her great aunts and uncles and cousins and grandparents. There were dinne...

Sunsets and dawns bracket wild nights of storms and dreams. In the daylight the shreds of murderer mysteries and surfing competitions, of ...

So I'm upstairs, making beds (big surprise), when all of a sudden What a feelin! I run downstairs to see if someone has walked in my d...

Baby is a month old, and today we are all (except her) going to the clinic to get our flu shots so we don't transmit something she can...

  This is going out to this year's tenants. How would you decide?   As of Columbus Day weekend, our season is officially over, and we’r...

Happy American Invasion Day!    Today is also the day that the Americans depart the Isle of Misfits for America, not to return until next M...

and breakfasttime and snacktime and snacktime and lunchtime and snacktime and snacktime and dinnertime and snacktime and snacktime and suppe...

This is Camilla and her great grandmother Shirley, or, as she is now dubbed, Triple G, for Great Grandmother G____.  Camilla is getting bigg...

At three-and-a-half weeks, Camilla Garrison took her first boat ride, along with the dog, the kayak, the case of wine, the steaks, the vegg...