Recipe for a Florida New Year’s Morning Celebration (when you’re visiting Dad for the holidays): First pick the oranges from the tree that’s groaning with ripe orbes (JJ carried them in the backpack) Second squeeze them carefully Third add champagne Happy New Year to everyone! Just 18 weeks ’til Clean Up Weekend!

(Dear reader, in case you hadn’t heard, Steven and I have left our home on Penobscot Bay for a camping trip of our own. If you’re not interested, page down a few posts and everything will be devoted to Life in Searsport; in the meantime, we’ll be traveling for a while and wanted to keep…

(Dear reader, in case you hadn’t heard, Steven and I have left our home on Penobscot Bay for a camping trip of our own. If you’re not interested, page down a few posts and everything will be devoted to Life in Searsport; in the meantime, we’ll be traveling for a while and wanted to keep…

(Dear reader, in case you hadn’t heard, Steven and I have left our home on Penobscot Bay for a camping trip of our own. If you’re not interested, page down a few posts and everything will be devoted to Life in Searsport; in the meantime, we’ll be traveling for a while and wanted to keep…

(Dear reader, in case you hadn’t heard, Steven and I have left our home on Penobscot Bay for a camping trip of our own. If you’re not interested, page down a few posts and everything will be devoted to Life in Searsport; in the meantime, we’ll be traveling for a while and wanted to keep…

(Dear reader, in case you hadn’t heard, Steven and I have left our home on Penobscot Bay for a camping trip of our own.  If you’re not interested, page down a few posts and everything will be devoted to Life in Searsport; in the meantime, we’ll be traveling for a while and wanted to keep…

(Dear reader, in case you hadn’t heard, Steven and I have left our home on Penobscot Bay for a camping trip of our own.  If you’re not interested, page down a few posts and everything will be devoted to Life in Searsport; in the meantime, we’ll be traveling for a while and wanted to keep…

If you’re looking for postings about Searsport Shores, please skip over these (there are three years of posts to page through if you’d like…far more applicable to your vacation planning) and the postcards that will be coming up…we’ll be home again in the beginning of January… Dear Bob, We made it to Gettysburg after a…

The projects are done for the moment…Steven concedes that he can do the rest in the Spring…so Hatie & Joe from DownEast Fiber Farm in Winterport came to take the goats to the farm…and we’re off on the first vacation adventure we’ve taken together in 17 years…Bob’s staying at the campground to keep an eye…