The Fryeburg Fair has a big fiber exhibit. Of course Arlene and I wanted to spend some time there. One (well, perhaps not; we’ve spent a lot of time around Maine by now) strange thing is that we’re beginning to know people around this state. One of the exhibitors at the fiber center was the …
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Getting to the Fryeburg Fair
Charley, Nicole, and Emma are up in Maine this weekend with us. Charley and Nicole were thinking of going to the Fryeburg Fair last weekend, but decided against it in the end. They had talked it up to Emma, who was really psyched for it. We set out for it after a long slow morning …
Deer in the headlights
On Heath Road, along the ridge approaching the intersection of Mayberry Hill Rd. It was in the road, crossing from right to left, when I saw it. Then it looked right at us, evaluated the situation, turned around, and walked off into the woods to the right from whence it had come.
Applesauce
What do you do with all those apples? Maybe one day I’ll have a cider press; but for now, what we don’t make pies or apple crisp of, or give away, or just eat, is probably going to be applesauce. We started last night. I’m not normally that big a fan of applesauce. If I’ve …
Link to Chicken Wings
Here’s a link to the comic strip Chicken Wings. The banner shows pictures of and from the firefighting helicopter Panaca Jane that one of the authors flies for his day job. Go to their forum, Roost Air Lounge, Aviation Related Topics, the adventures of Panaca Jane, for pictures of wildfire fighting in Nevada.
Reading report
I finally finished Everything is Illuminated. We saw the movie about a year ago, and I started the book sometime over the winter. This was really too slowly to read it, because I didn’t remember enough of the start by the time I got to the end. But I did get to the end! Then, …
Klez sub
I’m a week benind on this one! I’m talking about Sept 26 now. Barry had to pick someone up at the airport, so he arranged a substitute for klezmer class tonight. It was Dena Ressler, a clarinetist. She says she knows me from somewhere, but we couldn’t figure out where. It’s almost always good to …
Deer report
As we drove up our driveway last night, I looked to the right, at the edge of the headlight beam, to see if there were deer eating our Cortland apples. Jim, the previous owner, had told us that was something of a problem, and the Cortland got the worst of it because it was farthest …
Butterfly migration
At lunch yesterday I was watching a butterfly migration. Close to the time I sat down I noticed two monarch butterflies fluttering around the parking lot between the building where I was sitting and the parking garage. They circled, gained altitude, and drifted off southward over the garage. Half a minute later another butterfly flew …
Singer 347
Over the weekend, I think it was Sunday, I dragged our old Singer sewing machine out of the attic to see if it would work well enough to be worth taking to Maine. We haven’t used it in fifteen or twenty years — we replaced it with a Necchi that has a free arm, which …