Comments on: FEATURE: Up the Creek Without a Paddle

By: Gertraud Fendler

Gertraud Fendler — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 13:03:49 +0000

Three halves?
Never claimed to be a mathematician!

By: Dana Lascu

Dana Lascu — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 09:51:46 +0000

Hey, Gertraud, those origins add up to 150% – that pretty much sums it all up: you are all that and more, the essence of fun and creativity on the shore. Great reread when the bus is stuck in traffic. Even the recipe is fun.

Everyone else, as a Transylvanian (also Balkan), I can attest to the fact that people put garlic in everything to ward off bugs, but also vampires.

By: Gertraud Fendler

Gertraud Fendler — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 02:38:42 +0000

Recipe for Insect and People Repellent:

Discovered this by chance. My cat (the one in the boat) loves to nibble on dry food throughout the day. So do ants. To discourage ants from crawling into the cat bowl, I placed the dish in a saucer filled with olive oil. They came –– and drowned themselves. Ran out of olive oil one day and substituted black seed oil (http://altmedicine.about.com/od/herbsupplementguide/a/Black-Seed-Oil.htm) and noticed that the ants did not even go near the bowl. They vanished. Tried it on me while working in the yard. Nothing bit me.
Made a tincture and for good measure I added freshly pressed garlic –– a tradition for a girl from the Balkans. I am 1/2 Hungarian, 1/2 Yugoslavian, 1/2 Austrian.
It worked! Nothing came near me! Nothing! And Nobody!

By: Eliza Hoover

Eliza Hoover — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 14:28:35 +0000

Have admired your paintings at the gallery and now equally admire your adventuring. Please give garlic and black seed recipe. Black seed? Sunflower? Thanks.

By: Ellen Moore

Ellen Moore — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 11:59:40 +0000

It takes a lot of work first to find the sea glass and then to make the beautiful jewelry. Keep it up — we sold many pieces in the gallery over the weekend.

By: Karen Kinser

Karen Kinser — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 03:20:47 +0000

You are such a “pistol”! It takes GUTS to go out all by your lonesome out to sea in a boat. YOU GO, GIRL!

By: Catharine Perry

Catharine Perry — Mon, 14 Jul 2014 18:23:03 +0000

We have all been there, though probably without such a sense of humor! Very cute.

By: Donna Adams

Donna Adams — Mon, 14 Jul 2014 17:58:14 +0000

What an excursion! What you won’t do to find a few pieces of sea glass!

By: Steve Kane

Steve Kane — Mon, 14 Jul 2014 17:07:53 +0000

Made me laugh out loud. Reminded me of a number of close calls I got my own self into as a novice: backpacking, roof repair, use of nail gun, etc. I learned to carry bandaids and Polysporin. And ok, read the instructions.

By: Dana Lascu

Dana Lascu — Mon, 14 Jul 2014 16:48:41 +0000

Wonderful story, Gertraud! Reading instructions is boring — leave that to others.