Posts by astrig

The weather has been beautiful and the campground is a flurry of activity  as we clean up for clean up weekend (it’s sort of like cleaning the house before the housekeeper comes:)) Topping the list has been planting the new fruit trees Steven picked up in Waterville last Saturday.  A very long time ago we…

Hi folks, If you’re reading this blog strictly for the campground or the campground business, skip today’s posting. It’s a rainy Sunday here on the coast and I’m going to be completely self indulgent all day long…it started with cappuccino and doughnuts, now it’s going to be this blog post and later there will be…

In case you were wondering, running a campground isn’t just about walking the grounds to make certain that everything looks pretty and dusting the merchandise in the store. This time of year it’s more a frantic mix of gardening before the plants get too high (you can’t start this too early because we never know…

Every year we host an event that I believe is unique to Maine…we exchange free camping for help getting the campground open in the Spring. When you think about it, the weekend is a win-win for everyone. We get help picking up the millions of little sticks on the ground (remember the Nor’easter last week?)…

It’s hard to believe that just 2 short weeks ago there were 18 inches of snow on the ground.  Today we were raking around the blooming crocus and cleaning up the old stalks of bee balm (talk about aromatherapy…the scent of bergamot could cure anything).  This was the first day that we could really get…

Boy that was a long, hard storm! The surges came up over our 12′ retaining wall, flew over the 45′ sites and deposited sea urchins, mussels and clam shells all over the second row of RV sites. The branches came crashing down and somehow the Internet went with it…we were without access from Sunday night…