Sometimes we think the principal industry in Maine is publishing giveaway newspapers filled with ads for local businesses, human interest stories, and columns about local gardening, hunting, fishing, and hiking. I envision people who worked for the Boston Globe and the New York Times retiring to Maine, saying, “I always really wanted to run my …
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Startled
I was scouting around the woods behind our house to see where there were blackberries worth taking Emma out to pick when I heard a noise of something big crashing through the trees and bushes nearby. It seemed to be getting farther away. I didn’t see anything. I guess I startled a deer that saw …
Visit from Marina
A couple of weeks ago Millie phoned to talk Arlene into having a house guest for a few days. Many years ago Joel had gone to Russia on a teacher exchange program. A woman he had met on that program, who teaches English language and English and American history and literature in the city of …
In Maine with Judy
Arlene’s college and grad school roommate Judy finally had a weekend free to come up to our place in Maine. I neglected to get any pictures of Judy herself. We hung around our place most of Saturday, going down to the association beach for a while around noon and taking our canoe out for a …
Bank show gone
A group of artists that Arlene hangs out with was invited to exhibit their work in the Citizens Bank in Newtonville. Arlene had something like eight or a dozen pieces up there for July, plus or minus. I went with her on July 31 to take her show down. It looked very professional and totally …
July 21 weekend
On July 21 we went to the “Art in the Park” art and crafts sale in Bridgton. Aside from a T-shirt (the one from that event last year, not exciting but a good light-colored T-shirt (light-colored makes it easy to find ticks on it, so it’s good for out in the woods) we got, well, …
Oh by the way – software
I installed Apache, PHP, MySQL, and Mediawiki on my MacBookPro laptop, on the PC side. I’m not sure what good it does to have a wiki on it, but at least it will give me a chance to learn what you can do to administer a wiki. Don’t come looking for it; it’s not on …
Lowell Folk 2007
We went up to the Lowell Folk Festival today. Arlene wore her T-shirt from the 1988 festival, one of the first years it was held. I kept saying to people that we hoped there was a contest for the oldest Lowell Folk Festival T-shirt, but there didn’t seem to be. Almost as soon as we …
Reading note
Well by now I’m 10% of the way through Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (are people calling it “DH” the way they used to write “OOTP” for “Order of the Phoenix”? or was “DH” in too common use already?) For me, that’s not bad, especially considering that Arlene was reading the book most of …
Anniversary Party
Katherine organized a surprise 40th anniversary party for her parents Sue & Richard for yesterday. She asked us to meet her at the Wellesley Community Center at 10 to help set up. Our timing was perfect; we had parked, taken one load of stuff out of our car, set it down by the door, and …