Saturday night (so this really could be a post for May 12) we went to a folk concert in Lewiston ME. On Friday Arlene forwarded me an email with the comment “this sounds like us.” It was originally from The Humble Farmer, a Maine Public Broadcasting radio personality. We’re on his email newsletter list. His …
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Hummers
To anyone who found this post searching for information on large expensive gas-guzzling vehicles, I just say nyaaaaah. I’m talking about ruby-throated hummingbirds. We put up our hummingbird feeder last weekend, expecting that the birds would be showing up in Maine pretty soon. Yesterday, May 12, when I started to grind coffee first thing in …
Barred owl
Last weekend (so, May 5, unless it was Sunday the 6th) I was looking out the kitchen window in Casco when I saw some movement in a tree across the driveway, just over the canoe. I thought it looked more like a bird flying in than a squirrel on a tree, so I checked with …
Let’s see…
In the time since my last post, let’s see, * our friend Sue came up to Maine last weekend. Richard was out in California, visiting their daughter on his way to a conference in Las Vegas, and she sort of invited herself. It was great having the extra company on the drive, and she did …
Lathe work
I didn’t do any spinning last weekend, but there was lots of rotational energy going on. I finally have my lathe set up with a grinder for sharpening tools next to it. A lathe, for those who have never seen one in use, is a device for turning firewood into sawdust. Most woodworking involves removing …
Mid-April?
Last weekend there was lots of snow on the ground at our place in Maine. There had been a snowfall early in the week. Though there had been lots of melting, it looked more like the end of winter than April 14.
Grouse walk
Three weekends ago we walked around the block in Casco. Remember, that’s three miles around. About 100 yards from our house, no, make that 200, we saw a bird walking across the road. A ruffed grouse! We’re pretty familiar with them by now. This one was just walking, not particularly concerned about us. We wondered …
A good old Springbok
Three weekends ago, that would be March 30 – April 1, I guess, we did an old jigsaw puzzle of computer languages, probably computer languages as of the mid-70s. It included punched cards, punched paper tape, and Fortran on coding forms. Like this — It turned out to be pretty easy because it was easy …
Somewhat open eyes
I hope the cars behind me on route 26 in Gray on Friday night saw the deer that crossed the road fifty feet in front of me. Otherwise they must have been pretty annoyed at how slowly I was going. There was a deer crossing sign a little before that, and I saw a glint …
Distribution network
Oh my goodness, has it been that long since I updated? Yes. What I wanted to say first, is that yesterday I was struck by how we had been interacting with the distribution sector of the U.S. economy at different levels. We were a little earlier than usual leaving Newton on Friday, so we decided …