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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1) I live in RI, where not only mooring rights, but
access by walkers and swimmers to the shoreline, are important topics, often
legal ones. Rich people have big mansions along the shore, where
previously only the poor lived, before federal flood insurance. Since
common folk are supposed to have access to the shore between mean high and
low tide marks, and since folks are supposed to have access to the shore for the
purpose of collecting seaweed for their compost piles, some folks have carried
this far enough to try to get out of paying for access at the town and state
beaches, and some have gone so far as to bring a seaweed-collecting basket with
them, along with their swimsuit and towel. They are usually granted
walking access but are not allowed to park for free. Also, as far as
mooring rights go, most people who arrive at the Newport Jazz and Folk Festivals
must pay large fees to see the show, but my son Greg and his friends, one summer
day when all of their cash was being saved for college expenses, boated over to
Newport with a shell-fisherman friend, ate lunch aboard, swam to shore from the
anchored boat, got in free to the concerts, swam back to the boat, and boated
home. Usually fees are charged for boat moorings at Marinas, and include
things like emptying of sewage tanks, hookups to water and electric,
etc.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Another big deal was whether the private club
owned by the town of Narragansett should be for the use of certain selected
[rich] citizens or be open to all. The less-equal pigs won, and now the
Canochet Club and its beach are public, but private parties can rent
it for wedding receptions, graduation parties, etc.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>8) EEK! I never had a period between
the birth of my twins and the conception and birth of my next son, so we were
all surprised at When he was born, his size, etc--that was before sonograms,
etc. Note: the only birth control that worked for us was The Pill!
or we would have had one or two kids a year for a long time--a few generations
back my family had totals of 16 and 22! Eeek!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>9) celandine is usually a yellow dye, and various
mordants can be used in varioyus dyeings--I think ammonia, urine, and alum, as
well as ashes or lye. It's a plainish green weedy plant that used to grow in my
backyard and have bright yellow roots on the inside.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Linda</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>