Campground Life

This article found its way onto my e-mail and it’s very funny. Here at Searsport Shores we’ve had a long standing policy that check in is before dark. These words are carefully chosen to reflect the changing time of dusk depending on the week of summer we happen to be living in. Of course, if…

If life gives you any cause to dance and sing, why would you ever walk and whisper? Obviously little kids understand this…exactly when did we forget? Luxuriating in life means being as committed to enjoyment and celebration as you are to responsibility and industriousness. Luxuriating doesn’t have to cost any more money- our American lives…

Things are smoothing out here in Florida…thank you everyone who wrote with get well soon wishes. With doctors’ orders firmly in hand to avoid any physical exertion, we’re finding time to soak up the sun and eat grapefruits and oranges straight from the trees in Dad’s back yard. Totally off topic, but if you know…

Less than 10 days ago I was feeling pretty smug and cozy…surrounded by my wools, beads and long walks on the beach with JJ…I should have known there’d be a challenge waiting on the horizon… Last Saturday Dad called…from the hospital…without any forewarnings, he’d had a heart attack during the night and was in the…

We haven’t even reached the solstice yet but around here, the sun’s not coming over the Bay until about 7:00 and it has set behind the trees by 3:00. When the days are this short I actually plan my activities around always being close to a sunny window…my only problem is that when it’s pitch…

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…