Campground Life

Steven and I often argue about exactly when winter starts…I believe it starts as soon as it’s too cold to work outside before 11 AM (Yes, I have lots of wooly projects I’d rather work on in the comfort of a sunny window).  Somewhere around the 1st of November seems about right.  Obviously my willingness…

We’re still closing down the campground.  This week we’ve mulched leaves, cut the roses back, planted spring bulbs, put away the playground, winterized the water pipes, pulled the remaining string beans and stashed the last of the garden benches.  Next week we’ll shut the bathhouse down, plant more spring bulbs, mow more leaves, and build…

These days are filled with canning tomatoes, making more applesauce, trying new pickle recipes and dyeing wool as fast as I can…the nip in the air is enough of a reminder that we’ll be inside more hours than not before long.  Already is too chilly (for me, not Steve) to work outside before 10 and…

Wednesday was quiet and lovely at the ocean…I took these pictures of the shore from the ocean tenting deck…in the morning, afternoon and evening.  Notice that there’s not a cloud in the sky or a ripple on the water…think warm sunshine and a good book.  True to our famous New England weather, we blinked and…

We’ve been half closing down for a few weeks now…and after this weekend the toys in the playground are put away for the winter but we’ve left the gardens fully decorated for now…it’s simply too pretty to close down.  This weekend, the village of Searsport had a Fall Festival…here are a few of the pictures…

Yes, you’re on the campground blog and yes, I know the pictures don’t look right.  Actually, we snuck away this weekend.  If you live at the ocean, then a mountain destination is an obvious choice. It was Steven’s 30th College Reunion in Lyndonville Vermont.  Fiber College 2010 is over (except for the follow-up correspondence) and the…

The wind has shifted and makes a different noise in the trees, our sweaters are airing in the sunshine and we’re roasting tomatoes for the winter every afternoon…until we start with the apples for butter and fruit leather. It’s Fall on Penobscot Bay.  No clouds in the sky.  Every where you look there are harvest…

There’s alot of things I put off doing “until I have time to do it right”…like blogging Searsport Shores life lately…I didn’t realize the extent of my procrastination until I down loaded some pictures today…OMG…there were photos fresh from 3 weeks ago. So it’s 8:47 PM…I’m closing the office in 13 minutes but I thought…