by macewan on September 9, 2007
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…the subtropical stormlette will, apparently, pass us by for brighter sea pastures.
We need rain here in eastern NC mighty bad. See, hunters around here use dogs for their bed-of-the-pickup sitting-in-an-elevated-camopainted- chair roadside deer hunts. (Yes, it’s still legal in this part of North Carolina, USA to hunt from the side of the road. I shit you not.) Anyway, these deer dogs live in pens under big old shade trees behind many a backroad double-wide or farm house. Many of the pens have concrete floors but most dogs are living on freebie wooden pallets. We need some rain for these dogs! Their pens get mighty rank during a drought and the flies…! oh the flies!
That reminds me of this great story about me answering the phone when my grandmother Cora Lee was sick… years ago… and my uncle’s hunting dog got loose… and… Aunt Wanda… never mind, I’ll get in trouble telling that one.
I took this picture a while back at Mom’s Grill, a local gas station/eatery near my house. Their government-cheese biscuits are beyond compare. Most folks around here prefer their cheese biscuit with 2 fried eggs, a sausage patty, 3 link sausages, and 5 strips of bacon. For less than $2.50! Start your morning off with Mom’s Grill and then have lunch out at Slatestone Grill at the back of Slatestone Grocery Store out Slatestone Road. Their cheeseburgers taste so good, they’d make Lyle Lovett cry. And, as always, your arteries will thank you. Southern fried and southern died. That’s me.
Send us some rain, oh atmospheric evaporation gods.
by macewan on September 8, 2007
I still say it’s Queen SpiderMother weaving an ozone web but just in case I’m wrong — we’re off to Piggly Wiggly for 10 loaves of Wonderbread, a case of Mt. Dew, sardines, squirt cheese and some nabs. We’re going to ride the storm out in culinary comfort, by damn. Oh, and a carton of cigarettes for Ruth, some instant coffee, a couple cans of sterno, 13 boxes of PopTarts and 25 lbs. of dog food.
yeeehaw! we’ll finally get some rain…
…STORM SURGE AND STORM TIDE IMPACTS… AS WINDS INCREASE STARTING LATER THIS AFTERNOON…WATER LEVELS WILL BEGIN TO INCREASE ALONG THE COAST. IN ADDITION…ASTRONOMICAL TIDES WILL BE HIGHER THAN NORMAL THROUGH SUNDAY. A STORM SURGE OF 2 TO 3 FEET CAN BE EXPECTED ALONG COASTAL SECTIONS. THE PAMLICO AND NEUSE RIVERS WILL HAVE STORM SURGES OF 4 FEET.
by macewan on September 7, 2007
Some toddlers want tricycles. Some grand-parents buy expensive riding toys. Then there’s my wife, who bought a vacuum cleaner. Ollie pulls Emmett around her studio.
Val’s studio:
by macewan on August 25, 2007
We are all laying out our hearts for the world to see. Eastern NC residents understand.
by macewan on August 22, 2007
The incredibly small rural southern town where my family and I live is creating quite a stir amongst the nautically-inclined. We’re on the Pamlico River. The downtown backs up to the water and sailboats / boat-boats (I am not nautically-inclined) stop their floating around and moor at the city docks and walk across the parking lots to restaurants and geegaw shops.
The big news? The city is considering placing mooring fields in some of the city’s waterways. I’ve read a bit about the idea and it seems, according to my research, that no other town/city/podunk in NC has such things. Wonder how boat owners feel about it? Wonder how much our little hamlet will pony up for a harbor master? We pay big bucks to tourism-related jobs here.
by macewan on August 4, 2007
In the past I’ve asked that washingtonnc.org and beaufortcounty.org move towards a warmer fuzzer format. In essence I was censoring what I felt was too controversial for a small struggling town like Washington, NC. Here’s why I did this.
