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Winter arrived to Penobscot Bay yesterday at about 4:30 in the morning…and it hasn’t stopped snowing yet! It’s a winter wonderland around here with about 14 inches of snow on the ground and plenty in the sky. Our home sits in the middle of the 40 acres and is really rather tiny…so when you sit…

It was a great holiday…thanks…but I’m back trying to sort out a phone/Internet problem that should have been simple…but it wasn’t…and now I’m not certain what will happen…during the next couple of weeks The long and short of this frustration started innocently on November 16th when a Verizon customer support agent told me she could…

Since returning home, I’ve yet to unpacked my suitcase because so many other things have taken priority.  Have you ever noticed how meetings are cosmically piled into waves? Tuesday I attended a regional marketing meeting that yielded no ideas, energy or follow through…but I did get a little bit of knitting accomplished. Thursday was a…

It’s a bright, sunny, albeit cold morning on the Gulf of Maine…Thank you to all of our  Veteran’s today.  Steven is celebrating his day off from teaching by working on the lawn mower…the one that unceremoniously stopped mulching when the leaves were falling faster than the wind could blow them away. He’s anxious for me…

Like the witch riding her broom just in front of the tornado, I managed to get back about two hours before the big storm hit our coast on Saturday.  Parking in the driveway before the trees blew sideways involved getting up at 5:30 AM and driving from Cobleskill New York to Searsport Maine almost non-stop…

It’s a shame really…everything looks so organized and pretty and the trees are really just hitting their full color…and there’s no one here but me to enjoy it…Does this mean I’m really an exhibitionist at heart? Over the past few days we’ve gotten all of the picnic tables stacked in protected places (no small feat…

I’ve probably said it before, but running a family campground is like riding a roller coaster…no matter how you try and frame it, the truth is, life is all ups and downs…and as we close things out for the season, it’s like a slow descent in the chills of winter and a whole new rhythm…

I’m sitting in the shade of a cherry tree looking out at the sailboats on the bay…it’s 82 degrees and I wish I had the gumption to change my jeans for a skirt hours ago…we’re in a record breaking heat wave and I’m loving it…bring on the ice coffee! Well, it’s official…sound the trumpets please…on…

Happy October 1st…it’s appropriately chilly this morning with a dampness in the air that the mums love!  Last week Dad and I attended the Carver Memorial Library fund raiser at the Carriage House Inn in Searsport.  In addition to a wine tasting (or maybe it was a very well-thought-out conjunction) there was a silent auction…

The weeks to come are devoted to tying up loose ends.  Yesterday Dad and I had the pleasure of driving to Waterville and giving the Humane Society a check for $475…the proceeds of generous donations and bidding at the two silent auctions we hosted this year.  Of course this meant putting a “Sorry we’ve stepped…