I’m parked at the jetty. Fog is invading. An old man in a big green truck is parked to my right. He’s got white hair, white sideburns and a white goatee. He’s wearing a black ball cap and smoking. His window is rolled down. He’s talking on a CB radio. I know that because I remember listening to someone else on CB radio around 45 years ago, in their Burt Reynolds heyday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I crack my passenger window to listen better. I want to know what this man is talking about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ospreys fly overhead. Fishing boats bob in the river channel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
059 605 he squawks<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n He’s talking to someone near the Canadian border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Then he’s talking to another man about their various radio setups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 059 605 he squawks<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Now he’s on to the weather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I want to hear something interesting. This is all so banal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I spot an osprey with an eel in its talons. Now that’s much more interesting than CB chatter. I decide to brave the wind and go build a fort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m parked at the jetty. Fog is invading. An old man in a big green truck is parked to my right. He’s got white hair, white sideburns and a white goatee. He’s wearing a black ball cap and smoking. His window is rolled down. He’s talking on a CB radio. I know that because I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6203,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6201\/revisions\/6203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}