The trees went in mostly in priority order. First, a Gala apple. I like Gala apples from the supermarket, and my book on growing apples says that fresh locally grown Galas are way better than supermarket ones. Certainly I like my homegrown Red Delicious apples better than supermarket ones. So, even though it’s all we …
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Tree hugger, moi? Kinda.
In response to many people who have written to ask, “Considering all that Dean writes about nature, would you call him a tree hugger?” we present the following evidence: (Actually, nobody has written to ask any such thing. It’s a little like Tim Sample at the concert we went to on Saturday asking, “How many …
Call it a mile
Four or five weekends ago Arlene and I tromped out a snowshoe trail to a patch of aspen trees in our woods and then to the clearing we call the patio, then back to the backyard. Two weekends ago we did more work on the part back from the patio, which mostly consisted of clipping …
Nahanton Park birds
Yesterday (Tuesday May 6) I was seeing lots of orioles around Cutler Park. It wasn’t a case of “everything that moves is an oriole” the way I remember it once several years ago, but there were plenty. I saw one Savannah sparrow with exceptionally bright yellow stripes on the head, quite close. Today (Weds May …
Second Seder
We had the first Passover seder here (this is two and almost a half weeks ago I’m talking about) but didn’t take any pictures. For the second seder we went to David and Rachel’s out in Southboro and did take pictures. All of Millie and Joel’s grandkids were there. We had expected 18 people for …
Something they called a concert
The JCC klezmer band gave something we tried to call a concert last Tuesday (April 29, I guess) evening. We set up in the lobby, put out a couple of chairs, and started playing. There were a couple of people listening on purpose around the corner where there are comfortable chairs, but mostly the audience …
Fiat
I declare the 2008 grilling season open. In spite of the slightly wobbly legs and missing acorn nut that lets a wheel fall off, I roasted a whole chicken on the rehabilitated Weber grill with total success. In unrelated cooking news, I baked two loaves of Red River Cereal bread this morning. I mixed the …
South on 302
Matt and I went out to get some lumber to repair the deck at The Red Mill in South Casco. On the way we noticed some horses plowing the field at Watkins’ farm behind the frozen custard stand. The Red Mill turned out to be a couple of hundred yards off the main road, down …
Wabanaki festival at Bowdoin
Three weekends ago (would that be April 12?) we went to a Native American arts festival at Bowdoin College. By now we’ve been to a few events like that, so some of the vendors look familiar, and some of them even recognize us. The thing I remember most about this one is one pre-teen girl …
Molehills
I don’t want to make a mountain out of a molehill, but our front yard in Maine was full of molehills last weekend. We were in the Boston area for Passover (pictures? somewhere) the weekend before, and there was still a foot of snow on the ground in Maine the weekend before that. So we …