Archive for April 2010

We open next week…but our billboard on route 1 is still blank, our new website has yet to be launched, the store still looks like a private wool studio, the rec hall is full of golf carts and garden ornaments and the sleet/rain/snow combo of the last couple of days prevented the cement pad from…

Why are we liberal whack jobs if we believe that without clean air to breath, clean water to drink and a guaranteed legacy of beautiful land deeded to future generations we have nothing?  Sounds like conservative politics to me. Every day should be Earth Day!

It was supposed to rain all weekend but it didn’t…so after we transplanted perennials for a couple of hours and Steve stacked more of the firewood for the lobster bakes we needed a rest.  There were plenty of little broken pieces of dry wood scattered under the wood pile…and we needed to cleaned up around…

Last night Steven and I attended a Searsport Historical Society meeting for a presentation by Kevin Johnson the archivist at the Penobscot Marine Museum. PMM has been gifted 30,000 postcard images from the Eastern Illustration and Publishing Company of Belfast. We looked at slides that showed Searsport before electricity came to Maine’s coast. Many of…

Down East Magazine is probably familiar to anyone interested in Maine…but did you know about the podcasts too? I’m not usually a fan of “Maine Humor” but Ida LeClair, broadcasting from her double-wide in Mahoosuc Mills is pretty funny…see what you think…”Timmy’s Fallen Down the Well” If your connection or computer doesn’t grant you the…

Yesterday friend and camper Gary Kitchen came over to help us cut the more intricate pieces for the new billboard.  It’s very exciting…and hard work…who knew plywood could be so heavy? I’m drawing the seaweed and the waves based on the metal welcome sign that friend and camper Gary Krochmal made last summer…have you seen…

We’ve been enjoying the ever increasing turkey population…in the winter they hang out on the campground playground and drive the dog insane…but they’re big and beautiful and we love to see them.  Apparently the population is exploding further south of us and causing problems that border on comical for those of us who aren’t suffering…