Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

This was yesterday…just before we loaded the truck for Christmas in the Berkshires… See you in ’09 and the very warmest wishes of joy and peace to you and all who surround you. Astrig, Steve and the Menagerie

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Winter Birds on Penobscot Bay

Yesterday, J (the hound) and I walked to Moose Point State Park and because the sky, the sea and beach were all variations on gray, I was thinking that we were in for more of a work out than a visual treat…I couldn’t have been more wrong. Inexplicably, we saw a multitude of birds beyond…

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First Snow and Food Porn

On the first big snowstorm of the season, I opened a jar of those tomato preserves I made back in October (you can scroll back to that post if you’d like more information).  So after a bit of walking in the snow to give all of us some exercise, I made a “German Pancake” and…

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Walk’in the Beach

Assuming the weather isn’t ghastly, I walk the beach almost everyday for at least an hour because I’m so much easier to get along with when I’ve had some fresh air and perspective ;). This series of sequential photographs is what I see between the campground and Searsport Harbor.  You can see that it’s a…

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Mining the Database

I’m working on our Christmas list for the campground.  Actually I’m taking a break from sorting through the database to make this posting because my mind has been having a conversation with so many guests that I thought it might be healthy to write instead of think for a moment. We run the reservation program…

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