I think yesterday's session was a first for a regular Third Saturday session -- three states and three countries represented. I know we've done three states before (reasonably often, actually) -- but it may be a first for the three countries and almost definitely for three states and three countries together. (In case you're wondering -- Edmund, of course, is from Canada, and Jacqui still counts as a Brit as well as a Mainiac, I mean, Mainer.)

What DID I sing?!? "Bay of Biscay" in which I added a new coughing verse, followed by a quick gulp of porter before another verse with actual words in it. (Jeri backing me up with harmony except on the coughing verse.) "Harbors of Home" written by Joan Sprung. (See, Joan, I've been getting some mileage out of it -- I really like that song and so does everyone who hears it.) Oh, and then I was forced to sing an occupational song -- "Down Below" -- because a) it tied in with a theme raised by Al or Barbara, can't remember which, b) it's more or less about water and does have one actual nautical verse, and c) it leads up to a pun even worse than Charlie's chorus for "Dead Dog Cider." Then I "bruced" (local term for using a cheat sheet) "On the Backside of Nantucket Point" which I don't think I've sung in public since the first Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival in, when?, 2000? And I closed the session with Jerry Bryant's "It's Only a Shantey In Old Shanteytown."

We've had some exceptional sessions lately, and yesterday's was definitely one of them.

Oh, and Charlie -- it's JEAN (Jennings), not Jane.

Linn