Signed, sealed, taped, and delivered…with love
I am not good about birthdays, and rather than suffer annual pre-birthday stress about what to get, I simply get…
Category: Day to day
Celebrating the silly
It is April Fool’s Day and I am coming out of the closet: I love pranks. I have been told…
Just squidding around
Pale and luminous, the squid drift in a group towards our lures, and then scatter. Their movement is smooth, so…
TRUSTY David Trust
Is the ice safe? A reasonable question, since every winter, somewhere, someone goes through. But not David Trust, and not…
Pumped Up
Hard body, graceful moves, and a regal profile – this smooth operator has moved right in, and I am right…
Meals I would never serve to guests
A brief flurry of cupboard doors, bowls are snatched from the fridge, a quick pass over a gas burner and…
Puttin’ on the dog
Their royal majesties Queen Victoria and Prince Albert graciously hosted a dinner party in the neighboring town of Bar Harbor…
The Rain in Maine
Spring rain can be so constant and so gentle that it becomes a background companion to the day, rather than…
Invasion of the garlic mustard
The down side of not taking a weekend away is that all those projects and chores which are conveniently out…
Digging in the dirt
French Intensive is not a language class. One of many names for double dug gardens, it is the name I…