Steve’s home now and doing well, but the hospital discharge process seemed to take forever…so I took JJ the hound and walked around Belfast while Steve napped…it was a warm, gray day so the colors were muted, making the sharp lines of the architecture jump off the streets…contrast the angles with the curlicues of the ironwork.

  Lots going on around here…ConocoPhillips has us (Searsport) in their sights.  They want to build a big propane transfer station on Route 1…we, small business owners and concerned citizens of Searsport think it’s an insane notion.  So we formed a coalition, “Thanks but no Tank” and fill our time with lawyers and “experts” while we try to figure…

I’m sitting in the sun here on the art studio deck wondering how in the world it came to be November 1st…things have been busy since that last September post…Fiber College was a wild success, we had a busy fall season, lots of late vegetables from the garden to put away and I’m not certain…

I think that September and October are the prettiest months on the coast.  The colors are inviting, the weather can be spectacular and there’s a sizzle in the air…maybe it’s the “going back to school” excitement that’s built into our modern DNA or maybe it’s the chattering of the birds and the escapades of the…

It was a busy, busy August…and then September was busy…and Fiber College was bigger than ever before. Long story short, it’s taken me a week to catch my breath and even feel like blogging (something I usually love to do).  So far the September weather has been video quality.  I’ve already got Queen Lollie shorn…

If you have to wait until I write the post that’s swimming in my head…you may not hear from me for another couple of weeks.  The campground is a swirl of August fun and we’re 30 days away from Fiber College which means we have lots of “other work” to keep up on right now…so…

Our paths never seemed to cross although we smiled and waved at each other from afar.  I finally had a chance to talk with Marianne Hurley and Elaine Reardon on the Thursday of their visit with us.  The first day they were here they showed people how to make a drop spindle using CDs.  On…