Shoals'n'Bowls

• I've been preparing the estate for a Summer of the neighbor's bad lawncare maintenance choices. I have many apologies and designs for tall arbor vitae mazes.
• Amazing what this new Information Age has done to people's ability to remain interested.
• Five years. If you count the year that I deleted.
• So, anyway: Tall Ships Rhode Island's brilliantly-conceived -- and so far brilliantly-dispatched -- project, Oliver Hazard Perry (whom see), our very own 207 foot-long Class-A Tall Ship™, is coming along swimmingly, and you should read about it, or possibly drive to Newport or Warren Rhode Island to look for it. The article isn't really that clear.
• Although it should be a wildly-known and widely-observed occasion (well, at least I've been commemorating it since January), tomorrow is Paul Cuffe Day in Westport Massachusetts, where, a couple centuries ago, he was a hard-working and successful local business owner who gave back to his community. That is, until partisan opportunists started projecting all over him and ownershipped him into a wealthy supply-side minority entrepreneur who fought against taxes.
• Tomorrow, I will celebrate a guy who saw wood for ships waiting in local forests and minds working in local fields. And then he did something.
• BBC says: "Element 112 has become the latest and heaviest addition to the periodic table, but it doesn't yet have a name." I suggest "tomlehrerium."
• Dude, I so forgot Maria Africa Gracia Vidal's birthday. And this imprudent nitwittedness must not stand!
  Happy Belated Birthday, Maria Montez!