Berry Bowls

In Season: Organic Berries - Photo by Salt Water New England

Around Town Today

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Trumpy FREEDOM

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Sheep with Attitude

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Reader Question: Being a Good Neighbor

An Amalgamation of Several Reader Questions on Being a Good Neighbor:

What are good rules for neighbor etiquette?  How late should a party go on weekdays, weekend, or holidays?  How early can I mow my lawn on Saturday or Sunday, or start construction?  How often should a lawn be mowed at all before it becomes a blight?  For those of us who get newspapers but also go away for weekends, is a three day build up rude?  What is an acceptable use of  radios outdoors?  I hate smelling neighbors fabric softeners, but I don't think anything can be done about that.

Lambswool + Tattersall

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• Moss Green Lambswool Crewneck Jumper <https://www.cordings.co.uk/moss-green-lambswool-crewneck-jumper.html>

• Blue Pink Large Overcheck Tattersall Shirt <https://www.cordings.co.uk/blue-pink-large-overcheck-tattersall-shirt.html>

• Lotuff Unlined Signature Handbag (No longer available)

A Bit of Sculpture at Yale

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Reader Questions: Core Items and Favorite Items for Autumn

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Three Reader Questions:

I am curious, with beautiful fall approaching, what the community considers as "musts" for fall?

Dearest Muffy - thank you for your wonderful and soothing blog.   I have a question for the community about the upcoming season, the best time of the year, I think.  What do they consider the basics for a classic Autumn wardrobe to be?  And where does one find such things these days?  

Do your readers have favorite items for this September to November time of year?  Having spent most of my life in the south, I will be heading north for the fall.  Any essential/ favorites for cool to cold weather?

Connecticut, 1960

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Question For the Community: How has the way you have exercised changed over time?

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A Question for the Community:

How have the ways you have exercised changed as you aged, from teens to twenties, thirties, forties, fifties, or older?  How has participation in school sports led to other activities over the decades, if at all?

Late Summer

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Around Towns

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Afternoon Grazing

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Organic green beans from today's CSA...

Reader Question: Clothes to Avoid?

Muffy - another stimulating "Question for the Community" might be: "What would you never, ever wear?"

Herreshoff SPARTAN

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Portland Press Herald: Maine’s 2 major retail outlet towns chart falling sales

Reported in today's Portland Press Herald:

Both Kittery and Freeport have seen sharp sales declines in the past five years... In Freeport, the drop in sales... was... almost 20 percent, from $76 million to $61 million. <https://www.pressherald.com/2019/08/04/declining-sales-challenge-maine-outlet-towns/>

Sorting Out The Chelsea Boots

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• Cordings Brown Leather Brogue Chelsea Boots <https://www.cordings.co.uk/brown-leather-brogue-chelsea-boots.html>

• Dubarry Cork Ladies Chelsea Boot <https://www.dubarry.us/womens-footwear/country-boots/cork-boot>

• Dukes for Cordings Tan Suede Chelsea Boot <https://www.cordings.co.uk/tan-suede-dukes-for-cordings-chelsea-boot.html>

• Dubarry Waterford Chelsea Boot <https://www.dubarry.us/womens-footwear/country-boots/dubarry-waterford-chelsea-boot>

Reader Question for the Community: Best British Foods?

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Dear Muffy, 

Here’s a question for the community: 

What kinds of British food, or British food brands, do you prefer and recommend?

Around Town

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Question For the Community: How has the way you have dressed changed over time?

A Question for the Community:

How have the ways you have dressed changed as you aged, from teens to twenties, thirties, forties, fifties, or older?  Which of these changes were driven by easy access, job role, epiphanies, trends, or changes inherent in aging?

Madras

Photo of My Father in Madras

Childhood's End

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Summer Bags

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This 2018 canvas tote had a trim that was too dark, so it is spending the month alternating between soaking in the salt water pool and hanging on the fence in the direct sun.  The result is increasingly more of a faded watermelon sort of pink.

Other Summer bags in use:

Around Port Clyde

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The cure for anything...

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"The cure for anything is saltwater - sweat, tears, or the sea." - Isak Dinesen