Take a Hike

A relaxing day before voting led to a search for a nearby hike, which revealed a beautiful trail maintained by the Coastal Mountain Land Trust. The hike follows Mill Brook and offers a serene environment. The Village Cemetery, accessible from the trail, holds historic significance with gravestones telling stories of sea captains and their families from the 1800s.

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Slow Mornings

My favorite recipe comes from a cookbook first published in 1959…I promise that you won’t be disappointed!

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This is wonderful.

The best piece of advice I heard in 2022, while working in the studio, was from the 10% Happier Podcast: Stop and recognize happy moments when you’re in the middle of them. Literally stop and say out loud, “This is a happy time.” It’s a way to ground yourself in the joyful parts of your…

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Happy Valentines Day!

It’s our day of love…can you feel it? In this virtual reality I feel like singing from the rooftop… I love my husband! I love my family, I love my flock and little slice of heaven here on the Maine coast. I love the celebrations we host, the friends that we’ve made and the community…

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Celebrating the snow!

I can’t believe how long it’s been since I visited our poor neglected blog…I’m making a new pledge to give it more attention as life settles into a more “normal” rhythm. What more perfect way than to share a videos of the flawless blanket of snow that covered us over the weekend? It’s 30 seconds…

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Are your Peas in Yet?

Go to the grocery store, chat casually at the post office, arrive 5 minutes early to a meeting and before long the conversation always gets to gardens: how fast the snow is receding? how deep the mud is on your boots? have your onions come up yet? We’re all comparing notes and wishing for the…

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Busy as Bees

We’ve had a couple of warm days in a row and the daffodils were at their peak this past week. Now the forsythia is fading away, the cherry and apple blossoms have popped and its starting to feel like summer. We’re eating more than our share of fiddlehead ferns and daffodil blossoms (I haven’t been…

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Hidden Secrets of Searsport Shores

“There should be a place where only the things you want to happen, happen” ― Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are Whenever we meet “first-timers” at Searsport Shores, we love taking them on a walking tour to discover some of the campground’s “secret treasures”. There are secluded spots hidden throughout the woods, along the trails, and even…

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Catching Up

Hi friends, it’s really been a long time since I wrote and I apologize. First resolution of the New Year: (ok, second if you count my promise to eat less sugar)  I will settle back into the pleasure of blogging more often…it should be easy because it’s been a brutally icy winter so far and…

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