Bumbling toward self-sufficiency in the wilds of Cape Cod
It was ten days ago exactly that our trailer accident beached us. Kevin has spent an unconscionable proportion of those ten days, and I’ve even spent some time, getting us up and running again. We have the Trailer Cabal to thank.
It should have been a simple repair. Two 26’ leaf springs (only one was broken, [...]
Do you know what a leaf spring is?
I didn’t, until ours broke.
A leaf spring is a piece of metal, in a flattened U-shape, that suspends the body of a trailer above the axle and cushions the ride by acting as a shock absorber. When it breaks, the trailer and its contents (in our case, a [...]
It was just a couple of weeks ago that I said we were looking for a boat in the fifteen-to-seventeen foot range, with me leaning toward fifteen and Kevin leaning toward nineteen.
That was supposed to be a joke, but we are now the owners of a nineteen-foot Eastern, a broad-beamed fiberglass fishing boat with a [...]
Anyone in the market for a boat quickly finds out what grammarians have always known: “bigger” is a relative term.
For us, “bigger” means bigger than the skiff we keep in the pond. Since the skiff is only twelve feet, our “bigger” covers a lot of territory. We’ve been looking in the fifteen-to-seventeen foot range, with [...]
Tamar Haspel has been writing about food and health for over a decade. She recently moved from Manhattan to Cape Cod. She’s adjusting well. [Read More…]
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