summer officially here

New York Hat Co. straw hat. No ribbon, beaten to hell... Bahamian seawater doesn't hurt.

Textile Buff & Wheel Co. bag. To call it the ultimate beach bag would be a dis-service. Wonderbag might be ok...


Easy catch by the kid.

Melange. Cape Ann guy gave us the lobster he snagged. Lighting reflexes obv'. #wingaersheek.

I don't need a tool for every job, but this shrimp peeler/deveiner has done us proud. The Quickso. Made in Boston, MA by a certain Gorton Corp. Related to Gortons of Gloucester??? No doubt there are a million grated horseradishes out there and at local markets... until someone enlightens me I rely on Farmer's. #ketchup #cocktail

3 rounds of lettuce happening now. The coldframe lettuce is all gone. Nasturtiums ablaze.

Appleton's and tonic w/ lime. Cheers to my hard working sis.
Final one below; after the S'ville fireworks these guys rolled up. Take the Boston Globe van out of Celtic Pride and go nuts on it for the Bruins season... #the _beast. #big_smile

reblog -whiffle ball

Bit late for this.. but does anything mark the start of summer like seeing the boxes of Wiffle^tm bats out at the drugstore? Great factory tour and potted history below from WSJ on this 1950's invention out of Connecticut. Playing with some friends a while back and one gent noted dryly, "I have 27 piches... yeah, 9 different pitches from 3 different arm angles..." Cheers Brady.


A whiffle meanwhile, the crew cut, predates this. (The name Wiffle came from to wiff / strikeout anyway.)

whiffle n. whiffle cut informal a very short haircut worn by U.S. soldiers in World War II. -via The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military. Berkley Books, 2001. Oxford Reference Online.

Now go read this humorous article via the WSJ, The 22 Rules of Backyard Wiffle. Guess I was guilty on Rule #19...