Being able to drive, alas,
does not mean being able to drive to Rhode Island. Even
going to the cat shelter makes my arm sore. An hour and a
half on I-495 is too much to hope for yet. Nancy is doing
beeper coverage so can't spend an hour on the bus to come
up here. Ned is out of town. My only company besides
Wilbur is the happy horn hunter of Newfoundland.
Many fine caribou heads later I
turn the page and it's two years later and our hero is on
board a Norwegian whaling ship in search of the blue
whale. A whaling memoir breaks out in the middle of a
hook and bullet narrative! Blue whale numbers were
already way down by then so it's amazing they found one
for him to examine for his book on large British mammals
and tragic that they were still killing them when they
knew they were in decline. He prefaces his tale of
chasing the blue whale with a history of the Grand Banks
cod fishery. He ends that section claiming that the
Newfoundlanders will always have cod. Ha! Little did he
know.
Yesterday's big outing was a trip
to Blockbuster. I managed to score Princess
Mononoke this time. Also rented another Jackie Chan
flick. The lines were so long it took me an hour to get
out of there. Note to self: avoid Blockbuster on rainy
Saturday afternoons. Note to self: buy Princess
Mononoke. It will make life as a couch potato so much
easier.
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Today's Reading
Newfoundland and its Untrodden Ways by John G.
Millais
This Year's Reading
2003
Book List
Today's Starting
Pitcher
Pedro Martinez
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