Oh, I wish, it was raining here... but alas... nothing. However, here are the tomatoes I canned.

Thanks for that info triciae. There were signs on the ship that contained some of the same information, but since we were pressed for time because I had to get back to my father-in-law's place to start prepping for the shrimp/mushroom risotto dinner I had planned, I only briefly read the first few signs, and after that just took pictures of the signs. I had heard that the vessel was based out of New London, but never heard the state mentioned. One of the signs attempted to answer why the Coast Guard keeps and maintains a sailing ship, and uses it for training when none of the other ships it uses are sailing ships. They had a longish explanation mentioning "learning the sea", "learning to work together", but I think the real reason is its beautiful and cool and it maintains a tie to the past. I had been sailing on a sunfish the previous day, and was imagining the Eagle trying to chase down smugglers and gaining until the ship had to tack or the smugglers turned into the wind and got away. "Dang it, they escaped again." :-) Edited to add picture of sign: This post was edited by bob_cville on Mon, Aug 11, 14 at 11:31

Are those real Nicole? I've never seen that shape before.

Jasdip, your photo brought back childhood memories. Planter's Peanuts originated in my City. There was a PP store on our city square and a man in a Mr Peanut suit would walk around near the store and square giving out little PP trinkets to kids. Many years after Mr Peanut was a thing of the past and the store was gone, while we were fishing, my DH and I met the sweet guy who wore the costume. I felt like a kid meeting a childhood hero.