Last weekend (I mean the weekend of March 18-19) we saw a sign on a farm stand, and ads in the local paper, about Maine Maple Sunday, March 26. It turned out to be a bigger deal than we realized. First of all, let me say that I was wrong two weeks ago when I …
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Fuzzy
On the way back from a rummage sale (billed as “indoor yard sale” at the community center in Waterford, we finally got to look at Naturally Fuzzy Yarns, the little yarn shop in the woods, in Harrison. Jan, who owns Naturally fuzzy, made me a copy of the announcement for the Denmark, ME Sheepfest which …
Grout
I finally put grout in the tiled piece of plywood in front of the wood stove. One of the first things I did for the house in Casco was to bring up all the extra tile from our bathroom renovation in Newton to tile a 2 x 4 foot piece of plywood so we would …
Brace and Bit
On our way down Main Street, Bridgton, we stopped in a store that has touristy stuff, souveniers, and antiques, something like Cornfield Trading (but it’s not field — I can’t remember what). I saw an old brace and auger bit, $3 for the brace and $1 for the bit. I have better bit braces, but …
Table Legs
I got to use the biscuit joiner that I bought last weekend. Table legs are now put together, though it would probably have been smarter to have routed out the cutouts for the cross brace before attaching the angled parts. I can clamp a straightedge to them to guide the router base rather than using …
Crooked House
Arlene noticed this house, on North Raymond Road, several trips ago. We can’t figure it out, really. There’s a much bigger house across the road from it. This looks more like a playhouse, but it’s pretty big for that, or a guest house. At first sight it looks as though it’s falling down, but the …
Cultural Literacy lesson
At lunch one of our co-workers, a Chinese woman whose upbringing didn’t include shamrocks and leprechauns, was asking about St. Patrick’s Day. After we got the shamrocks and leprechauns straight, Colin recited the following rhyme: Saint Patrick was a gentleman who by quickness and by stealth drove all the snakes from Ireland. Here’s a bumper …
Bird Feeder Pix
Matt said, “I can understand why the goshawk perched there. It’s a comfortable horizontal branch with a great view of the hors d’oeuvre tray.” He was talking, of course, about all the little birds that visit the feeders, which the goshawk is thinking about for lunch. We’ve only seen a pileated woodpecker once in Casco, …
Bridgton Winter Carnival – Planetarium
The other thing we wanted to see at the winter carnival was an astronomy program. We walked a couple of blocks down route 302, crossed the street, and looked around the municipal building. Nothing on the side. Front doors locked. Around the back was a station wagon with its tailgate up and a big telescope …
Bridgton Winter Carnival – Crafts Sale
Bridgton had its winter carnival this weekend, postponed from the middle of February because there wasn’t enough snow then for the sled dog races. There wasn’t any snow today, either, but the event went on as best it could. We parked on route 302 and walked into Reny’s, where Arlene asked someone where things were …