July 7, 2019: Downdashore**

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I'm home again from four days in Lewes, Delaware, a beach town. (Lewes, by the way, is pronounced like the man's name, Louis.) I know I never got to the shore last summer. I had surgery on my left eye on Bastille Day, July 14th, and wasn't allowed on the beach (sand, sea water) or in a pool (pool water) that summer. I'm not sure about the summer of

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[lindahoyland]

So glad you got to the sea. I really missed it last year too.

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I want/need to go to the shore at least once in the summer, to make summer official. FanSee

[gilda_elise]

Sounds like you had a really lovely time. Even had your own human cane on the beach. :-)

I accidentally ordered a soft shell crab sandwich while visiting with a friend in Maryland. First bite sort of grossed me out and I sent it back. *g*

Is your book the one by Jeff Shaara? I love his work.

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I adore soft shell crab, either in a sandwich or just on the plate. I first ate one when I was about 18; maybe it's a food best introduced while you are still too young to be bothered by it?

The "Gone to Soldiers" I read was by Marge Piercy and was written in the 70s. What baffles me is how I heard of it and where I bought. What I have is a very battered, very second hand paperback.

I might never have kept plugging at it if I hadn't had hours and hours to read. I ended up enjoying it greatly. FanSee

[manue7a]

I'm glad you had such a good time. Lovely photos!

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Thank you.

Because I was tied up with my cane, I didn't take as many pictures as usual, and I missed some shots because I couldn't get my camera out quickly enough. Fortunately, Sam and Pam both shared their pictures with me. FanSee

[susandennis]

Fun trip and I totally agree with your language reporting. Never any coast. Here in Washington state people go to the coast all the time. (But then they also call that stretch of dirty sandy rocks, a beach and no one ever uses the word shore.)

When I was little we lived in North Carolina. We went to the beach. This mean we went to the part of the state that had ocean or sound abutting it. But my friends from Baltimore to NYC all went to the shore.

When you are in the land that abuts the ocean or the sound and you are going to the waters edge, in the south, we had no word. But my Yankee-ish friends had beach. It was really confusing to me. But, we did not have pop or soda (just Coke or Pepsi) so we didn't have to have that fight.

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I grew up in the mid-west -- Arkansas and Oklahoma -- at a time when we called all soda, "Coke." Didn't matter if it was ginger ale or black cherry or Mountain Dew, it was all called Coke, as in:

"You wanna a Coke?"

"Yeah."

"What kind?"

"Ginger ale."

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[susandennis]

Yup exactly the way it was in North Carolina.

[dadi]

I am happy you had a good time! I miss the seaside, I haven't been there for a looooong time!

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Having gone to the shore, I now feel the summer of 2019 has now officially taken place. FanSee