Just to get it on record, before the show airs, just in case this happens, Watch out for the kid they packed off to Idaho. Is his name Little Vito? I think he’s going to bust out of that camp, get a gun, and come back and wreak havoc in New Jersey. Look — Phil …
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… and Fast Eddie on the Ziti
We had a new guy at klezmer last night, a percussionist named Eddie. He had brought two drumsticks and two boxes of pasta that he was using as his instrument. “Sounds a lot like a snare drum,” he said. Jeffery, our flautist, told the director that at the next concert, when he’s introducing the band …
Tanager, grouse, etc.
What with planting pear trees and all the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend, we were outdoors a lot. On one short jaunt up what we call “the logging road”, a swath of brambles and other scrub that has grown up where the trucks went when the former owners had the property logged over (there aren’t …
Four pear trees
I like eating apples in the fall, especially now that we have five apple trees in Casco, but even more than apples I like seckel pears. So naturally I’d like to have a seckel pear tree on the place. The nursery catalog says that seckel pears need two other varieties in the vicinity for proper …
Three porcupines
On our way to Maine before Memorial Day we saw three porcupines along the side of the roads, two on route 121 south of the blinking light near the Casco firehouse and one on Mayberry Hill Road going up the hill. The first two are positive IDs. The third I just got a glimpse of …
Lawnmower repair
Might have been a year ago I hit something with the lawnmower and broke the mower. I know exactly what I hit. It’s a big honkin’ hunk of cast iron, the thing the gas company could turn to cut off the gas supply to the house from the street. It’s been there all along, and …
Unsquashed porcupine
I hit the brakes in time to come to a graceful stop ten feet from a porcupine on North Raymond Road this evening. We only saw two porcupines last year, but this year they’re all over. Maybe I’m more tuned in to looking for them, but this one was in the middle of the road …
Newton Open Studios
This past weekend we were in Newton being part of Newton Open Studios. This is the second year we’ve done it. Last year Arlene sold three of her prints. This time it was seven! She enjoys talking to the people who come in and explaining how she does the monotypes, and that they’re all different …
Raised garden bed
The last time we were in Maine, that would be the weekend of May 12, I put in a raised bed of vegetable garden. I had bought the wood, three eight foot 2x6s, a couple of weekends before and nailed it all together. The next weekend I dug out enough ground (and rocks!) for the …
Spring pictures
It’s spring even in Maine. There was a big rainstorm about three weeks ago that caused major damage to roads. Gravel under the road, rocks up to the size of baseballs, was washed out from under the pavement of the road that ends at the other side of the gate near our driveway. Our dirt …