On the 12th we all went to the Maine Wildlife Park in Gray for a native american powwow. It was much smaller than the Fort Hall Shoshone-Bannock festival — my mom said, “Do you think ours is ten times this big?” I do think there are more than ten times as many people dancing at …
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Perseids
One of the things I wanted in a vacation place was plenty of dark sky. Andy’s house on Moose Pond in Denmark was a little too much in the trees, without much sky. Our house in Casco has a good amount of sky, not a clear view horizon to horizon by any means, but a …
Weekend of Aug 12 – I
My mom was at our house from August 7 to yesterday, or in Newton from the 7th to the 10th, in Casco from the 10th to 13th, back in Newton the night of the 13th, and flew home on the 14th. We pretty much relaxed around the house on Friday the 11th. The apples looked …
Weekend of Aug 5
David and Rachel (and Jared) were at the house in Casco from about August 1 through, I think it was, 5. Millie and Joel joined them there on the 3rd, I think, and we went up on Friday the 4th. David and Rachel were impressed with how much Jared remembered about the place. When it …
Oh I started another sock
I started (probably around the first of August, but I’m not sure) another sock, using some old self-patterning stash yarn. In fact, it’s yarn I bought a year or two before I started knitting (I mean, before I started knitting this time, not before I learned the second time), from Fabric Place in Framingham, just …
Bent of the River
Arlene and I normally are going through Connecticut quickly on our way between Newton and New Jersey. We usually say something like, “it’s too bad we never have time to see anything in Connecticut.” We did have time on our way back from Mimi’s on July 31. We stopped at the Danbury rest area off …
Second stop at Mimi’s
We got to Mimi’s late in the afternoon (back on Sunday 7/30) after crawling through heavy traffic in northern Maryland, most of Delaware, and just a little of New Jersey. Although we were worried about how it would be near the George Washington Bridge, we made good time through northern New Jersey and NYC. When …
Laurel – Ft Meade Road
We left Virginia after a big breakfast with Lara and Elyse’s family at the inn. There wasn’t much traffic northbound. We made good time around Washington. By a little way onto the Baltimore-Washington parkway we were ready for a pit stop. I got off at an exit that turned out to be going to Fort …
Pub at Kelly’s Ford
Rats, my browser ate my homework. This was one of those times I had written a lot and not saved it, and my browser hung up, so I lost that part of the post. I kind of think I typed faster than the browser wanted to input. The interesting part (to me) is that there …
Reception – Elyse’s wedding
– pictures to follow – The reception was at the Inn at Kelly’s Ford, which was also where Elyse’s family was staying. It’s in the country, on the far side of a one-lane bridge, with a stable and a riding ring setting up for a horse show a hundred yards away. The room, like the …