Happy Summer 2023, Happy Fourth of July, and Happy for all this warm weather. Hope all is well, the boat is in the water, the engines are ready to roll, and your weekends are smooth as the waters you’re navigating.
We’ve been out and about, and enjoyed many boat rides and lots of live music on both sides of Upper Chesapeake Bay.
You see, I love Summertime and respect Summertime also. We are only afforded so many summer times. And none of us know how many we are going to get to see.
Like the Trips around the SUN or the sand in an hourglass, there comes a time. Like the Pink Floyd lyrics from their song TIME…
“When you run, and you run to catch up with the Sun slowly sinking. Racing around to come up behind you again. The sun is the same in a relative way but you’re older”.
This is why as I write my column I emphasize to go and do the things you love and invite those family members and friends out for a few boat rides.
Do what you can to enjoy life while you still can. Maybe little
melancholy… oh well!
HERE ARE SOME SOUNDTRACK SUGGESTIONS FOR THIS SUMMER!
1. Take Me To The River – Talking Heads
2. Sailing – Christopher Cross
3. It’s Five O’clock Somewhere – Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffet
4. Margaritaville – Jimmy Buffet
5. Boats – Kenny Chesney
6. Cake by the Ocean – DNCE
7. Float On – Modest Mouse
8. Rock the Boat – Hues Corporation
9. The Dock of the Bay – Otis Redding
10. No Shoes, No Shirts, No Problems – Kenny Chesney
11. Lovely Day – Bill Withers
12. Sunshine and Summertime- Faith Hill
13. Good Vibrations – The Beach Boys
14. Soak Up the Sun – Sheryl Crow
15. Son of a Son of a Sailor – Jimmy Buffet
16. Cabin by the Sea – Dirty Heads
17. Summer Breeze – Seals and Croft
18. Southern Cross – Crosby,Stills, & Nash
19. Into the Mystic – Van Morrison
20. The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald – Gordon Lightfoot
21. Yellow Submarine – The Beatles
22. Come Sail Away – STYX
23. Pontoon – Little Big Town
24. California Gurls Fea – Snoop Dog- Katy Perry
25. The Downeaster ALEXA- Billy Joel
26. Bonus Track – Moon Over Marin – Dead Kennedys
Grandmother….
Is that you?
While on their vacation cruise around the bay, a couple stops in Delaware City Marina.
The couple walk up into town and the husband starts to get a little thirsty. His wife isn’t but sees a Psychic sign and decides for the first time in her life to go in.
The boating woman goes into the local psychic in hopes of contacting her dearly departed grandmother. The psychic’s eyelids begin fluttering, her voice begins warbling, her hands float up above the table, and she begins moaning. Eventually, a coherent voice emanates from the psychic, saying, “Granddaughter? Are you there?”
The customer, wide-eyed and on the edge of her seat, responds, “Grandmother?
Is that you?”
“Yes granddaughter, it’s me.”
“It’s really, really you, grandmother?”, the woman repeats.
“Yes, it’s really me, granddaughter.”
The woman looks puzzled, “You’re sure it’s you, grandmother?”
“Yes, granddaughter, I’m sure it’s me.”
The woman pauses a moment, “Grandmother, I have just one question for you.”
“Anything, my child.”
“Grandmother, when did you learn to speak English?”
Over the years I have seen Jimmy Buffet a few too many times over the Summers.
I think since probably the late ’80s. One of the most memorable was going out to Wrigley Field with my son on a Great American Road Trip.
It appears however for the first time in a whole lot of Summers, Jimmy ain’t gonna make it around the towns!
AND NOW THE CONCLUSION OF CORNED FISH AND CABBAGE
Why do people like to eat fish that doesn’t taste like fish?
Why do people eat plants that are made to taste like meat?
And why do we take nuts and make it taste like milk?
I don’t think its milk at all and you should read the ingredients. I saw an advertisement for tree milk. Tree milk, nut milk, silk milk, almond milk, pistachio milk, cashew milk…. I am going to stick with just regular plain old Milk!
Call me old fashioned! Because Porpoise eat fish, do you think Porpoise taste like fish?
