Crazy rare find at Buddy’s wharf this week. Lots going on in the world, but I’ve got family and friends in town, and am putting everything on hold until tomorrow. [Photo by Buddy Poland.]
Thank you dear Keith Wheelock. You are very generous! You made my day! This is a tired girl tonight. It isn't dark but I am heading to bed! We had a Meet and Greet today! It was lots of fun but exhausting. I spent yesterday putting my yard signs out and getting ready for today! I will rest tomorrow!
Thank you, Sharon. You represent so many of us who may not be as brave, or able, but who do work in the background. I would vote for you for sure! Hope to hear the good news, the results for the coming election. Onward!!!
Ellie Kona, the only way you can support me is by mailing me a check. I have not signed up for the organization that collect the money. At my age I am beyond worrying about my private information. You can send to me at: Sharon L. Stearley or Sharon L. Stearley for Clay County Treasurer. Both will work.
3285 W State Road 340
Brazil, IN 47834-7351.
I apprecate any help that I can get. When I got into this and said I would run for Treasurer of the County I was told I could do as much or as little as I wanted. It is difficult to win over the our Republicans in the county but I am working as hard as I possibly can. Mostly the cost has come out of my pocket which is not that deep! Advertising is not cheap! If I have any campaign donations remaining I will use them for other future deserving candidates. We need more Democrats in Indiana! No funds are available from the State Democrats and our local chapter only provided the rental for the local 4-H County Fair booth that I manned all of the hours except for serving at a fish fry in a local community in our county.
Humm! I didn't know I was on ballotpedia.org! So glad you found me!
I have proudly contributed to. Sharon’s campaign. She is our type of candidate—fighting in unfriendly turf with gutsy determination. I urge all of her admirers to send her a pittance or more to:
Sharon Stearley
3285 W State Road 340
Brazil, IN 47834
Let’s make Sharon the first LFAA candidate who won with financial support from the Heather Hellians.!
Sometimes the Democratic party isn't Democratic or democratic. I volunteered to stuff envelopes at at Democratic Party office in Irvine California in 1990 where all the others were Republicans including the candidate. I didn't realize it until one of them offered to mail all the envelopes I'd stuffed all day . As he drove away, I was going home the same direction, do followed him and saw him dump them all in the trash. The ,"candidate" lost and was rewarded with a job with an oil company in Oregon, nest his home.
I do another "Fish Fry" next Satuday. Then on Sunday afternoon we are going to canvas the county. Hopefully, I can do a couple days this week. Then the following weekend is another "Fish Fry" and parade on Sunday afternoon!
Yes! I was just thinking that’s a blue blooded, fully vaxxed, totally boosted, situationally masked, science loving, public health abiding patriotic lobster.
Ok, I’m still giddy after my bivalent booster! Cheers and have a great weekend y’all!
and in true Heather fashion, this Big Blue Wave lobster also appears to be "something borrowed, something blue!"
Well-wishers are welcome to make a gift in the name of Heather & Buddy on the Tending to Democracy Giving Circle site. Can we imagine her wanting anything more than helping to save democracy?!?!? Join us, if you haven't already!
“ White — the rarest of all — at 1-in-100 million. Science tells us that blue lobsters are not just uncommon, but are in fact mutants. This is the result of a genetic mutation that causes the blue color. Blue lobsters are, in fact, the result of a single mutation of one piece of the SNA of American lobsters.”
What I see are lobsters tortured by some human taping their pincers. So what if they're a rare color. They're sentient, suffering beings. Let them .. and all other creatures .. live. And if you must kill them, do it quickly.
According to the New England Aquarium, wild blue lobsters are about a 1-in-2-million find. The aquarium got its own resident blue lobster in February 2020 and has had resident lobsters of other colors, including orange and calico.Aug 16, 2022
I just found the same article! -- I grew up in Maine and never heard about nor ever saw a blue lobster prior to this posting. We really do learn something new from HCR nearly every day!
They didn't. Displayed in a tank for two weeks then released it. It could even be the same lobster. Odds might be greater that the same lobster would be caught twice within a month than there would be two blue lobsters in the area. It would be neat if Buddy & Heather compare photos and let us know, also, if the vicinity that the August catch is close to their own lobstering area.
Judith and Steve Branz -- I live in Nova Scotia, and one of the "rules" of the road in these waters is that when lobstermen catch female lobsters, they clip their tails, as a message to the next lobsterman, and release the females back into the water. Insures further generations!
It had a gigantic blue lobster in the late 70s, 40 years old (they grow till they die)! Displayed in a big tank meant, kind of heartlessly, to replicate the conditions of the then-filthy Boston Harbor, which subsequently underwent a 10-year cleanup. (I worked on that, teaching the engineers how to communicate clearly. People were spread over at least 150 sq miles, no cell phones.)
Teaching engineers how to communicate clearly—wow, a full-time job for sure. I edited their user manuals. I remember one saying if the scientific stuff was right that was all that mattered. Not if no one understands what you just said.
I loved the work—engineers are so smart and funny. But yeah, they don’t get much practice writing in engineering school! Or didn’t then. I can’t remember now what technology they were using to communicate with people in the field (i.e. in the Harbor), miles away in the days before email or cell phone, but it was *crucial* to be clear. I guess it’s pretty important to everything they do, come to think of it. Why a liberal arts education is key to the survival of civilization!
I listened to my heading-to- engineering school grandson, artfully analyze a poem in his English lit class on (can you believe it) grandparents visiting day. There's hope.
Judith I remember seeing a blue lobster at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Center back around 1940. That was about the same time that a friend of ours, who dragged for bottom fish, brought a live, 30-pound lobster into our living room. I preferred the blue lobster.
Before WW II I had lobster pots in Edgartown (Marthas Vineyard) Harbor. Got enough for Sunday dinner. Was difficult recovering pots from under The Reading Room, a men’s drinking club where, I believe, the only book was on cocktail recipes. The broken glass was a great hazard.
Hi Keith. Thanks for your great stories! Cannot imagine having a 30# lobster in my living room! (Although my beloved 5-years-older sister put a live Maine lobster in my bathtub before I got in it, when I was about 8! Beloved evil sister! We laughed about it many times over the many years.) I did get a good chuckle out of your story, though!
At age 6 or 7 I had lobster pots and eel pots in Edgartown harbor. I loved lobster, loathed eel, which my mother relished. I took pleasure in shaking all the eels out of their pots as we ate lobster for Sunday lunch.
Much much later two families [my wife, me and another couple] were taking an older [20 years younger than me now] couple out to their private, key-only beach. We decided to bring a large dish of lobster meat. This we did, but my lobster plucking buddy got bad poisoning from the lobster innards and spent days in the hospital.
P. S. We gave the ‘oldies’ a 60 second head start with lobster picks.
Tomorrow, 9/11, is the anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers, the Pentagon and the D. C. target toward which the plane brought down in Pennsylvania was headed. Pause for a moment in memory of the thousands who died that day. And afterwards think about the importance of our intelligence services today in maintaining the nation's security so that we are on guard against a repitition of 9/11, and of the folly diminishing or compromising their operation in any manner would be..
linking your thoughts to home-grown terrorists, The Guardian wrote an extensive article in support of President Biden's calling out those who are working to undermine democracy, 'President Biden finally is sounding the alarm about democracy. Good' https://apple.news/A8jvFs9cWThqdVri_hQRezQ
Good article. Terrorists are terrorists, regardless of whether they take direction from a foreign entity or a domestic one. The President was correct in warning us about MAGA Republicans. Back on August 17, New York Times columnist Charles Blow summed it up by writing a column headlined 'Republicans are America's Problem.'
Thank you, I love that! Have a wonderful time with family and friends! Could this be your wedding weekend? I was married 61 years ago today! Hummmm! That was before you were born! Hugs Update: And it was! Congratulations Heather and Buddy! I am so happy you picked this date to get married...I will always remember your anniversary. May you live a long and happy life together! Hugs!
I celebrated with a Meet and Greet on a hot day in Indiana yesterday. It was as hot as the day we were married. He was killed in an auto accident about a block from our home in 1974. We didn't celebrate 13 years together. He told me when we were dating when I was still in high school that he didn't think he would have a very long life. However, I don't think he imagined it being over so fast. I can still remember hearing the siren that night while I was taking my bath in our tub. I had fallen asleep before he got home that night from our friends house where I had left him and walked home. The telephone woke me up from a sound sleep. I still panic for phone calls late at night. My life totally changed! I am still fighting and keeping the passion for life!
To lobsters red and blue. To family and friends. To Heather Cox Richardson, to Buddy, to subscribers, to compatriots, to hope, renewal, courage, determination and good will.
“Many times in my life I’ve been told by serious people that I must be very naïve to be happy, to have hope, to celebrate this little life I’ve been given when, actually, they say, everything is pretty dire. There’s war, poverty, crushing injustice all over—what right do I have to talk back to all that with flimsy little poems about the good? What can I say? The birds are my teachers, my elders, my guides. Every day before dawn, in silence and darkness, I’m at my desk making poems on the page. And then, before light, I hear the first bird outside begin to sing.”
—Kim Stafford
Kim Stafford is the author of Singer Come from Afar (Red Hen Press, 2021). From 2018 to 2020, he served as poet laureate of Oregon, where he currently resides.
Thank you Fern. You found the perfect poem. I’m still looking. On my walk today I saw baby woodpeckers already practicing and I thought how nature, if we take care of her, is so generous, really brilliant. We “only” have to care and take care.
What a beautiful sight, a blue lobster for a blue midterm, I really, really hope so. Thank you for all you do to keep us sane. And of course a big thank you to all of you readers and contributors, I learn a lot from all of you. What a wonderful community you are. ❤️
Let's just assume it washed in on a Big Blue Wave.
It’s a sign!
We hope!
I need a Big Blue Wave with my campaign for Clay County Indiana Treasurer. Just doing what Heather Cox Richardson told me to do!
Sharon You have the maturity, the skill, and the guts, so GO GIRL!
Thank you dear Keith Wheelock. You are very generous! You made my day! This is a tired girl tonight. It isn't dark but I am heading to bed! We had a Meet and Greet today! It was lots of fun but exhausting. I spent yesterday putting my yard signs out and getting ready for today! I will rest tomorrow!
Thank you, Sharon. You represent so many of us who may not be as brave, or able, but who do work in the background. I would vote for you for sure! Hope to hear the good news, the results for the coming election. Onward!!!
Thank you, Irenie! I wish there were more people in my area like you and my other friends here on HCR substack. You are all amazing...and lift me up!
Best wishes for you and Clay County, Indiana.
Thank you!
Yay, Sharon!! Go! Go! GO!!
Yay! Good for you.
One Sharon to another - Go Girlfriend!
Less than two months to go and lots of work ahead!
Found you, Sharon--good for you and your gumption with stepping up! How can we support you?
https://ballotpedia.org/Sharon_L._Stearley_(Clay_County_Treasurer,_Indiana,_candidate_2022)
Ellie Kona, the only way you can support me is by mailing me a check. I have not signed up for the organization that collect the money. At my age I am beyond worrying about my private information. You can send to me at: Sharon L. Stearley or Sharon L. Stearley for Clay County Treasurer. Both will work.
3285 W State Road 340
Brazil, IN 47834-7351.
I apprecate any help that I can get. When I got into this and said I would run for Treasurer of the County I was told I could do as much or as little as I wanted. It is difficult to win over the our Republicans in the county but I am working as hard as I possibly can. Mostly the cost has come out of my pocket which is not that deep! Advertising is not cheap! If I have any campaign donations remaining I will use them for other future deserving candidates. We need more Democrats in Indiana! No funds are available from the State Democrats and our local chapter only provided the rental for the local 4-H County Fair booth that I manned all of the hours except for serving at a fish fry in a local community in our county.
Humm! I didn't know I was on ballotpedia.org! So glad you found me!
I have proudly contributed to. Sharon’s campaign. She is our type of candidate—fighting in unfriendly turf with gutsy determination. I urge all of her admirers to send her a pittance or more to:
Sharon Stearley
3285 W State Road 340
Brazil, IN 47834
Let’s make Sharon the first LFAA candidate who won with financial support from the Heather Hellians.!
Thank you, Keith. I so want to make you all proud of me! You are very special indeed!
Sharon Years ago I was a fan of Indiana Jones—NOW I’M A FAN OF INDIANA SHARON!
I’m with Ellie and Keith.
Sharon, you’re an inspiration !!
Thank you, Kathy!
Shame on the Democratic Party for providing you with so little support.
I am joining with Keith's Heather Hellians and the check is in the mail!
They say in-person events are the most effective way for a candidate to get votes. Best of luck to you!
Sometimes the Democratic party isn't Democratic or democratic. I volunteered to stuff envelopes at at Democratic Party office in Irvine California in 1990 where all the others were Republicans including the candidate. I didn't realize it until one of them offered to mail all the envelopes I'd stuffed all day . As he drove away, I was going home the same direction, do followed him and saw him dump them all in the trash. The ,"candidate" lost and was rewarded with a job with an oil company in Oregon, nest his home.
Oh my!
I do another "Fish Fry" next Satuday. Then on Sunday afternoon we are going to canvas the county. Hopefully, I can do a couple days this week. Then the following weekend is another "Fish Fry" and parade on Sunday afternoon!
We are all rooting for you Sharon!!!!!
Yes! I was just thinking that’s a blue blooded, fully vaxxed, totally boosted, situationally masked, science loving, public health abiding patriotic lobster.
Ok, I’m still giddy after my bivalent booster! Cheers and have a great weekend y’all!
Exactly! A big blue lobster wave
Ha ha.....funny!! I was thinking the same thing. Great minds!! Congrats on you booster!!
Love it, doc!!
Me, too. They're saying this one might be viable for a year. Wouldn't it be loverly.
Yes, that would be so great!! Especially for the elderly and the many immune compromised who need the convenience. :)
Ah, from your lips to God’s ear!
I assume God has more than 1 ear
You can bet She does!
and in true Heather fashion, this Big Blue Wave lobster also appears to be "something borrowed, something blue!"
Well-wishers are welcome to make a gift in the name of Heather & Buddy on the Tending to Democracy Giving Circle site. Can we imagine her wanting anything more than helping to save democracy?!?!? Join us, if you haven't already!
https://www.grapevine.org/giving-circle/1XQhnyD/Tending-to-Democracy
💙💙
This will be a good place to send any extra dollars at the end of my campaign!
Hahaha, nice!!
Lovely thought
I like the way you think, Ann!
Loving that idea.
Hope so!!!!
Perfect!!!! Will do!!!!
Thought this would interest Buddy and yourself
“ White — the rarest of all — at 1-in-100 million. Science tells us that blue lobsters are not just uncommon, but are in fact mutants. This is the result of a genetic mutation that causes the blue color. Blue lobsters are, in fact, the result of a single mutation of one piece of the SNA of American lobsters.”
Er, does this augur well for the Dems in the upcoming midterms? 👀
If everybody votes.
We need watchers at the vote count.
Beautiful lobster. I hope you put it back in the ocean to live a full life
What I see are lobsters tortured by some human taping their pincers. So what if they're a rare color. They're sentient, suffering beings. Let them .. and all other creatures .. live. And if you must kill them, do it quickly.
Those are rubber bands.
One Saturday mawnin around 1965 I banded 1300 lobstahs at Sebasco Estates, ME, at my summah jawb.
Wow! What a beautiful color! Enjoy your time with family and friends! Thank you!
WOW oh WOW! Blue lobster -- they're so incredibly rare! Here's newspaper article I found via Mrs. Google from a while ago:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/08/16/rare-bright-blue-lobster-captured-maine/10341458002/
Also: How rare is a blue lobster?
1-in-2-million
According to the New England Aquarium, wild blue lobsters are about a 1-in-2-million find. The aquarium got its own resident blue lobster in February 2020 and has had resident lobsters of other colors, including orange and calico.Aug 16, 2022
I just found the same article! -- I grew up in Maine and never heard about nor ever saw a blue lobster prior to this posting. We really do learn something new from HCR nearly every day!
Ought to be catch, clone, & release. Cannot believe they intend to put that into a pot of boiling water.
They didn't. Displayed in a tank for two weeks then released it. It could even be the same lobster. Odds might be greater that the same lobster would be caught twice within a month than there would be two blue lobsters in the area. It would be neat if Buddy & Heather compare photos and let us know, also, if the vicinity that the August catch is close to their own lobstering area.
Judith and Steve Branz -- I live in Nova Scotia, and one of the "rules" of the road in these waters is that when lobstermen catch female lobsters, they clip their tails, as a message to the next lobsterman, and release the females back into the water. Insures further generations!
It's the same in Maine, Judith. If they have eggs attached they're called "berried females."
Judith, thanks for the follow up information!
It had a gigantic blue lobster in the late 70s, 40 years old (they grow till they die)! Displayed in a big tank meant, kind of heartlessly, to replicate the conditions of the then-filthy Boston Harbor, which subsequently underwent a 10-year cleanup. (I worked on that, teaching the engineers how to communicate clearly. People were spread over at least 150 sq miles, no cell phones.)
Teaching engineers how to communicate clearly—wow, a full-time job for sure. I edited their user manuals. I remember one saying if the scientific stuff was right that was all that mattered. Not if no one understands what you just said.
I loved the work—engineers are so smart and funny. But yeah, they don’t get much practice writing in engineering school! Or didn’t then. I can’t remember now what technology they were using to communicate with people in the field (i.e. in the Harbor), miles away in the days before email or cell phone, but it was *crucial* to be clear. I guess it’s pretty important to everything they do, come to think of it. Why a liberal arts education is key to the survival of civilization!
That’s what I said when the company founder implied I’d wasted money on same going to college.
Oy veh….
I listened to my heading-to- engineering school grandson, artfully analyze a poem in his English lit class on (can you believe it) grandparents visiting day. There's hope.
Judith I remember seeing a blue lobster at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Center back around 1940. That was about the same time that a friend of ours, who dragged for bottom fish, brought a live, 30-pound lobster into our living room. I preferred the blue lobster.
Before WW II I had lobster pots in Edgartown (Marthas Vineyard) Harbor. Got enough for Sunday dinner. Was difficult recovering pots from under The Reading Room, a men’s drinking club where, I believe, the only book was on cocktail recipes. The broken glass was a great hazard.
Hi Keith. Thanks for your great stories! Cannot imagine having a 30# lobster in my living room! (Although my beloved 5-years-older sister put a live Maine lobster in my bathtub before I got in it, when I was about 8! Beloved evil sister! We laughed about it many times over the many years.) I did get a good chuckle out of your story, though!
At age 6 or 7 I had lobster pots and eel pots in Edgartown harbor. I loved lobster, loathed eel, which my mother relished. I took pleasure in shaking all the eels out of their pots as we ate lobster for Sunday lunch.
Much much later two families [my wife, me and another couple] were taking an older [20 years younger than me now] couple out to their private, key-only beach. We decided to bring a large dish of lobster meat. This we did, but my lobster plucking buddy got bad poisoning from the lobster innards and spent days in the hospital.
P. S. We gave the ‘oldies’ a 60 second head start with lobster picks.
Ha Ha Ha!
WOW!!!! So glad you are taking time to enjoy family. I find that I need a break from “lots going on” too. Thank you for all you do. ♥️
Tomorrow, 9/11, is the anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers, the Pentagon and the D. C. target toward which the plane brought down in Pennsylvania was headed. Pause for a moment in memory of the thousands who died that day. And afterwards think about the importance of our intelligence services today in maintaining the nation's security so that we are on guard against a repitition of 9/11, and of the folly diminishing or compromising their operation in any manner would be..
linking your thoughts to home-grown terrorists, The Guardian wrote an extensive article in support of President Biden's calling out those who are working to undermine democracy, 'President Biden finally is sounding the alarm about democracy. Good' https://apple.news/A8jvFs9cWThqdVri_hQRezQ
Good article. Terrorists are terrorists, regardless of whether they take direction from a foreign entity or a domestic one. The President was correct in warning us about MAGA Republicans. Back on August 17, New York Times columnist Charles Blow summed it up by writing a column headlined 'Republicans are America's Problem.'
Congratulations to the Bride and Groom, Heather and Buddy! ❤️🍾🥂
Happy celebrations!
Something borrowed, Something blue?!
You beat me to it! What a wonderful sign for them.
💙
Thank you, I love that! Have a wonderful time with family and friends! Could this be your wedding weekend? I was married 61 years ago today! Hummmm! That was before you were born! Hugs Update: And it was! Congratulations Heather and Buddy! I am so happy you picked this date to get married...I will always remember your anniversary. May you live a long and happy life together! Hugs!
Wow! Happy Anniversary Sharon!♥️
I celebrated with a Meet and Greet on a hot day in Indiana yesterday. It was as hot as the day we were married. He was killed in an auto accident about a block from our home in 1974. We didn't celebrate 13 years together. He told me when we were dating when I was still in high school that he didn't think he would have a very long life. However, I don't think he imagined it being over so fast. I can still remember hearing the siren that night while I was taking my bath in our tub. I had fallen asleep before he got home that night from our friends house where I had left him and walked home. The telephone woke me up from a sound sleep. I still panic for phone calls late at night. My life totally changed! I am still fighting and keeping the passion for life!
I’m so sorry.
How horribly sad, no choice but to fight on
Congratulations, Sharon!
Thank you!
Mazel Tov to you and yours!
how special, Sharon!! congrats!! seems like today's the big day so a perfect date, right?
That was my thoughts. It was was another hot one like it was 61 years ago and no A/C in the church! Today it was mostly in the sun! But it was fun!
Enjoy! You deserve a night off!
Cool blue lobster.
To lobsters red and blue. To family and friends. To Heather Cox Richardson, to Buddy, to subscribers, to compatriots, to hope, renewal, courage, determination and good will.
For the Bird Singing before Dawn
by Kim Stafford
Some people presume to be hopeful
when there is no evidence for hope,
to be happy when there is no cause.
Let me say now, I’m with them.
In deep darkness on a cold twig
in a dangerous world, one first
little fluff lets out a peep, a warble,
a song—and in a little while, behold:
the first glimmer comes, then a glow
filters through the misty trees,
then the bold sun rises, then
everyone starts bustling about.
And that first crazy optimist, can we
forgive her for thinking, dawn by dawn,
“Hey, I made that happen!
And oh, life is so fine.”
Copyright © 2022 by Kim Stafford. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on April 27, 2022, by the Academy of American Poets.
About This Poem
“Many times in my life I’ve been told by serious people that I must be very naïve to be happy, to have hope, to celebrate this little life I’ve been given when, actually, they say, everything is pretty dire. There’s war, poverty, crushing injustice all over—what right do I have to talk back to all that with flimsy little poems about the good? What can I say? The birds are my teachers, my elders, my guides. Every day before dawn, in silence and darkness, I’m at my desk making poems on the page. And then, before light, I hear the first bird outside begin to sing.”
—Kim Stafford
Kim Stafford is the author of Singer Come from Afar (Red Hen Press, 2021). From 2018 to 2020, he served as poet laureate of Oregon, where he currently resides.
Thank you Fern. You found the perfect poem. I’m still looking. On my walk today I saw baby woodpeckers already practicing and I thought how nature, if we take care of her, is so generous, really brilliant. We “only” have to care and take care.
Yes, Irenie. The sounds and sight of birds always make me smile inside out.
Bird watching party this morning at the shores of Lake Michigan in Chicago at 8 am today! Thank you Fern for the delightful poem.
Thank you, Carol. I do wish that I could be with you. Salud.
Three Little Birds, Perfect song
Happiness is a choice and I choose to be happy very day.
What a beautiful sight, a blue lobster for a blue midterm, I really, really hope so. Thank you for all you do to keep us sane. And of course a big thank you to all of you readers and contributors, I learn a lot from all of you. What a wonderful community you are. ❤️
Framily takes priority! We can wait... "Every" day is a blessing, but whenever you post something, it's deeply appreciated.
Wishing you and Buddy the very best!