Me crew and especially me ship are VERY essential to me daily life, but seeing as how everyone is SO curios, I will disclose some of me other supplies.

1. Me hand-held mini telescope with a mini microfiber cloth (you know so that I can clean the lense).
2. Spare eyepatches (You never know when your eyepatch could fall off, etc.).
3. Shark repellent (If there's one thing I've learned in all my seafaring days, it's that there are ALWAYS sharks involved so, it's...

You look up towards the sky and discover a beautiful sight;

The top of the blanketed forest.

Arms outstretched, hair undone, blowing in the wind.

Wrinkled and worn their faces appear.

Colorful, dull, resilient.

Landscapes full of these amazing creatures.

We call them trees.

That year had been hard for the Dawson family. The lives of settlers taming the western plains always were. 
"America the beautiful, that's a sentence never truer." Harper Dawson sighed happily as he looked out over the rolling prairie with hills and mountains in the distance. 

Lydia Dawson walked softly towards her husband. She wrapped her arms around him and placed a delicate kiss upon his cheek. Lydia was a very petite young woman. After having been married to Harper...