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John Evans's avatar

Love these kind of posts, Tod. Authentic, poetic, wild, offering dreams of ships on the sea and dawn mountain-climbing in pajamas. A minute or two to picture the stacked lights on a tug in the night, and forget the vile shipwreck of mobster American government, also in the dark.

There really can't be any other plural for moose than moose, can there? "Mooses" won't do, and "mice" is already taken.

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Tod Cheney's avatar

Thanks John. Maybe it takes a blue moose to ground me in something solid these days. Right, moose is the plural of moose, which came into English from Alqonquin languages. Our government and lots of people here are embarrassing and shameful, but there are still lots of good Americans who will have to somehow carry the country out of this mess. And on a good day I think it will happen. But have to remember we elected this fiasco. People insist on calling it a coup, but these people were elected into office, if not direct by proxy.

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John Evans's avatar

Well, I know it's no consolation, but so was A. H.

Long live blue moose!

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Tod Cheney's avatar

I know. That's the thing. The people bring this upon themselves.

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NANCY MILLER's avatar

I can see this, Tod, in my mind's eye. Love tug boats! And is this a real place? I wanna go!

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Tod Cheney's avatar

Very Real. I'll try posting a chart later. I'm at Point Hudson, Port Townsend. North end of Kitsap Peninsula. Whidbey Island is north and east, and in between the waters of Admiralty Inlet. Any vessel coming into Puget Sound bound for Seattle, Tacoma, Olympia, or leaving for Canada, or points Pacific Ocean go by here.

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Ruth Sterling's avatar

tug & tow

biscuits & gravy

your head

in or

above clouds?

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