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Wow Summer's over

Posted by patgoodeve | 21st September 2009

The last day of summer has come and gone. I don't remember a lot of sunny days. I do remember it being cool. Long johns for Jenna in July! The sailing season is drawing to a close another month and the Lady Chimo is carried onto the cold hard ground, out of her element, balanced on her keel between the hard fingers of her steel stand. I'll cover her beautiful lines with ugly tarps to keep some of the winter off her decks.
We made an interesting discovery on a point of land west of Killarney. We anchored in Powder House bay. Blasting powder was kept here in a stout wooden shack when the mainland was first mined. The operation has moved to an island in recent times. The island is disappearing, a bit of the La Cloche Mountains shipped to Midland for drywall sheets. A whole island!
I was fishing, without much success off the bulbous cliffs that mark the point. With no fish for breakfast I grounded the dinghy in search of blueberries. I climbed up the steep slope. I picked berries in the

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