"When we finish a walk through the forest, we're always covered in spider webs." Makes your skin crawl, doesn't it? What's ON those webs, anyway? Just because we can't see them, doesn't mean they're not covered with yucky spider muck, left over fly parts, and whatnot. Oh, I hope I haven't freaked any of you nature hike lovers out there. That's okay. It's all organic, right?

"If you're going to roll up the cuffs of your jeans, go ahead, ROLL THE DANGED THINGS UP!" It doesn't do ANY good if you don't roll them up enough. I know this from personal experience, having moved upward from the bottom of the learning curve getting into my dinghy from the beach. Just half an inch too little and your whole pant leg from the knee down gets wet anyway.

"Rowing is no way to go through life." It's backwards. You always see where you've been, but can't see where you're going without getting a crick in your neck. Then again, I've heard much sage advice that tells us we should just concentrate on where we ARE in life. "Live in the moment," they say. Okay, I'll buy that, but I still look over my shoulder once in a while to make sure I'm not going to run into something, and I ALWAYS face forward when I'm driving a car!

There's little to share about Hunter Bay, so I'll add to my miscellaneous ramblings which, I've just decided, deserve a blog classification all their own: Mabrouka's Aphorisms. I'll blame them on Mabrouka so that those of you who think they're just downright S-T-U-P-I-D won't think less of me.

"Mosquitos don't bite." Right? They don't. They suck, ...literally and figuratively, they suck, but they don't bite. You always say you have a mosquito bite because it would just be plain weird to tell people you had a mosquito puncture. Nevertheless, mosquitos DO bite, ...figuratively.