[Magdalen] news from home

[Joseph Cirou]

I remember the foghorns form the month I spent on St Pierre et Miquelon in
the 70's. They sounded as if the ships were coming into the harbor, La
Brume (fog) was always a subject of conversations. They soothed me to sleep
instead of waking me up, I didn't hear them so much during the day. There
was just as much fog on certain days.
A warm day in July was in the 70's  I remember once I went to the Magdalen
Islands and it got up to 67 and the neighborhood kids were in their
swimming suits and playing in the water (which was never far (g)

Joe

On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Those places should only be shown to prospective buyers on the nastiest,
> stinkiest days! <evil grin>
>
> On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 2:16 PM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Portland had a big kerfluffle a few years ago when some old cannery
> > was converted to luxury condos.
> >
> > The buyers, all city folk (listen: there's  REASON why harborside
> > property was never developed. Several really good reasons actually)
> > complained & complained about the noise and the smells generated
> > before dawn when the fishing fleet chugged out of the harbor.
> > Those beautiful rustic fishing boats stink of fishbait and diesel, yum!
> > And sound like a consumptive bass/baritone.
> > -M
> >
> > On Sunday, December 28, 2014, Charles Wohlers <
> charles.wohlers at verizon.net
> > >
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Or folks who move out to their idyllic house in the country and then
> > > complain about the pigs next door.
> > >
> > > I did note one sentence in the article: "The lights slated for
> conversion
> > > are all along the coast." Like, they have foghorns in North Conway?
> Maybe
> > > they need them in Concord to wake up the state legislators.
> > >
> >
>