Archive for April 2011

Last week in the e-mail box was a great note from T.C. of Canada…she has never been to this part of Maine before and had a few questions.  Her questions are probably ones others share so with her permission…I’m making the Q&A part of her e-mail public: Could you please tell me if the beach…

To celebrate Earth Day…we worked on the landscaping…not so different from the other days…but I kept my camera with me and took these shots throughout the day. Stewardship: “Stewardship is an old English term that came out of the feudal system during the Middle Ages. A steward was a caretaker or manager of a castle.…

I love these April days filled with sleet, freezing rain, heavy gray skies and cold winds.  I mean, why not?  Here are a few reasons why this weather is the most marvelous we could possibly hope for: The daffodils won’t blossom until Memorial Day…so things will look prettier when the campers are here to celebrate…

One of our local, weekly newspapers is the Midcoast Beacon. My favorite section is when they ask a question to a random group of people and publish one sentence answers. This week’s question was “How do you know when it’s really spring?” The answers I liked best were from Belfast residents. Dick Berry answered “The…

Dear Gretchen, of course we have weddings here at the campground…always at least one every summer…and sometimes we even know about them ahead of time.  (other times we see a serious looking couple standing on the beach with two friends, and an official…they don’t think we’re watching but we’re smiling none the less).   100…

To steal a line from my friend MJ’s Blog: “Visit Mary Jane Astrig and Follow Her Adventures”. Hmmmm…more like visit Mary Jane Astrig… and…mmm….stretch….yawn…. Really why does she even bother? Life is sometimes much too fluid to stop and ponder and write about it. I know it is a good exercise to write everyday…and I…