Archive for November 2008

It was a wicked storm…the power went out around midnight and didn’t come back until late the next morning…perfectly conducive to hanging out in bed with a good book and great coffee.  UNLESS, you’re married to a man who frets and worries whenever the wind whistles; of course, in his defense, cleaning up the debris…

Luck for me I finished wet felting a pair of mittens yesterday morning.  Actually, because my hands are always cold, they’re outer mittens meant to be worn with fingerless gloves so that I can take blog photos and pick up things along the beach…they’ll do the job but it’s good that you can’t see how…

Boston and Quebec Cities are the two larger urban centers within easy reach of Searsport (bigger than Portland, Bangor and Augusta by quite a bit).  Either destination is a stress free 3.5 hour drive, on good roads with good radio reception.  My sister Christine and her family live almost in the city and Steve’s sister…

They’ve started…the November rains.  Four days of intermittent drizzle, fog and at least for now, warm temperatures.  Just enough warmth to push some of our daffodil bulbs to sprout I’m sad to report…but warm enough for me to keep working in the Rec Hall on a rather large weaving I started in September. J.J. (the…

“L’esprit s’enrichit de ce qu’il recoit, Le coeur de ce qu’il donne. Roughly translated these wise words say: The soul grows from what it receives, The heart from what it gives. I read this quote while I was drinking my coffee and decided to act upon the wisdom by offering a few random acts of…

In the warm sunshine (read barely 50 but hey, it’s November).  Steven got the last of his garlic in the ground and I got all of the rosebushes trimmed back to 12 inches, mulched with leaves and pine needles and finally sprinkled with a slow release fertilizer that will feed them when they wake up…

When we shut down for the season, all of the waterlines are emptied of water and then filled with non-toxic anti-freeze to prevent breaks and splits in the lines.  It’s a system that works better than any other we’ve tried and with time we’ve worked the kinks out.  We can isolate specific waterlines and close…