Gas hit $3.95 here yesterday. Wonder if they’ll hold off posting the very real, not-so-symbolic $4.00 per gallon before Memorial Day weekend, which AAA considers the start of the summer travel season?
I don’t see too many tourists coming way up this way. Unfortunate, because tourism spending trickles down in small towns in so many […]
And I thought the $3.74 gas price in town a few days ago was high. This is today’s news.
Still, we have seen worse. When we drove across Long Island last week for Frank’s nephew’s wedding, $3.75 was the lowest we paid, and that was a deal. Signs of $3.99 were common. Knowing that back home […]
Our PT Cruiser, now a year old in our hands, is lovely in every way, except for gas mileage. We can count on about 25 miles to the gallon. Which, since it’s 22 miles to Berta and Unc’s house, means we’re spending close to $3.67 to get there, and the same to get back.
I may […]
This isn’t about reality television, but about having television be a reality in my life again for the first time since I was 17 or 18 and still living on Thrush Lane.
The candidate in me needs to be watching local news. The wife in me is afraid that Frank will turn on the TV more […]
Yesterday in Machias, with gas at $3.45, I spent $45 to fill up the tank.
No wonder no one in Machias has any extra spending money these days.
You have to admire a newsroom that comes up with six Pulitzer prizes in a single year, what the Washington Post has just done.
Years ago, when I was in college, my favorite Monday in all of April wasn’t Patriots Day with the Boston Marathon (well, that was a close second). But it was the Monday […]
It used to be such a special thing, stopping at Tim Hortons when Frank and I headed for St. Stephen, New Brunswick.
But now there are 10 Tim Hortons in Maine. You don’t have to be in Canada anymore, to go to Tim Hortons. We were in South Portland last week for Frank’s legal seminar, and […]
How much does an 8-year-old comprehend about the national news?
I can reflect on that, because it was 40 years ago today that Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. (And I’m 48).
Grandmother and Grandfather Williams were visiting with us at the time. At her suggestion, our family went out for dinner, at Flapjacks in Potomac, in […]
Like I said before, I should blog more often.
Okay, so Frank and I have been married three months short of five years. In all that time, we generally seek out the most basic of hotel rooms — Motel 6 is our style, thank you.
But for three nights, we’re living it up in luxury at the […]
It’s March 20 today, so we do deserve something spring-like, even though it’s raining today. We still have gobs of frozen snowbanks on street corners. Frank has chopped through the ice pack that has covered our deck since December, although half of it remains.
When snow had melted somewhat, he did rake away the bit against […]
My modest number of signatures — 25 — have been filed with the Secretary of State’s office, so I am officially a candidate for the Maine House of Representatives District 32 seat. That was the easy part - the next step is continuing to collect 50 $5 checks toward the Maine Clean Election Act before […]
Now this one is fun, too:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/interactives/candidatequiz/
My cold, not what’s outdoors. Cough, cough. Sharpness in the throat. Stuffed nose. Hurts to swallow. Zero energy. Achy. Sleepy. Not interested in nothin’. Cough again. Takes forever for the afternoon to pass. And, why does this all have to occur on a federal holiday, when no one else goes to work, either?
Life just gets in the way.
Hasn’t been much to blog about, aside from the weather. It’s been simply awful. There was a stretch of two weeks when it seemed to snow a little, every other day, just dumping more snow on top of snow that hadn’t gone away. One inch, two inches, five inches here […]
Check this out:
http://www.electoralcompass.com/page/0/thema+s/
I am hoping this morning that our two young nieces, 8-year-old Anna and 6-year-old Evie, take a special interest in the first New Hampshire primary results to be counted and announced nationally, those post-midnight ones out of Dixville Notch.
I say this because Anna and Evie can connect their experience last summer, when their family stayed […]
This isn’t supposed to happen. We’re on auto-pilot for delivery of heating oil, but Frank reports that we are clean out. The temps in the house this morning was 46 degrees, not the usual 65 degrees we keep it at. We’ll phone the oil company this morning.
Banana Cream Paa is Frank’s favorite. So imagine his delight this evening at the monthly supper in Whitneyville, where the Whitneyville Library Committee puts on incredible public suppers. All the pie you can eat, for dessert. Tonight’s other fare was a choice of fish, seafood or corn chowder, beef stew or cheeseburger soup. The cheeseburger […]
Like, we didn’t need this. Anywhere from 15 inches to two feet of snow. It’s really hard to estimate, but it’s probably closer to two feet.
After traveling up the coast, the storm started here at 8am. School was closed all day, but Frank had about three hours in court before they closed it. It just […]
How nice the feeling after travel plans come together. Our Dec 20-30 trip to Scotland, in and out of Boston, involves in and out of London’s Heathrow on the other end. (Hey, the price was right). Only after I booked the trip did I realize just how horrendous Heathrow is, and the holiday element will […]
Oh, what will become of this blog? Good thing Thanksgiving came early in November, because that leaves one more week for me to make November entries, lest there be nothing recorded at all for November 2007. Years later, I just won’t have any way to remember this wonderful month. Yes, I will … we all […]
Frank feels one way about raking leaves, I feel the other.
Frank thinks that leaves are best raked once — after they are all off the trees. I think leaves should be raked up as soon as the yard appears to be horribly untidy. (So far, Frank’s theory has prevailed).
We were away for 4 days last […]
We are having the loveliest of October weather. The colors are nearly peak as we drive around from here to there. Days are warm and sunny, and the rain — very little at that — comes only at night. (Aside from our dark and stormy day on Thursday).
But the weather isn’t what our dear readers […]
Weeks on end without a blog entry …
But now it’s October, my second-favorite month after September. Or is it the other way around? The weather has been glorious. No chills yet, rain only gently at night.
Things have been going along so swimmingly I have to remind myself that I am now “virtually 48.” That is, […]
There is so much about September that I haven’t written about … I plan to get back to blogging regularly very soon. But I need to say both Frank and I just had the perfect weekend. In our minds, at least. He spent two nights with the 20th Maine at Fort Knox, and arrived home […]
Believe me, there are more important things to write about, but we have had the alarming distress of having made a trip to the dump on Saturday morning, and having had garbage-eewwy seep into the back seat of the prized PT Cruiser.
Ordinarily we use the older car for a dump run, but that has otherwise […]
Lucky us, we get to go on another road trip. Ironically, we will do three days in Nova Scotia over this Labor Day weekend, which is exactly what we did during the 2006 Labor Day weekend. That trip was fueled by curiosity, and this trip has another purpose.
We’re going on a scouting trip to plan […]
Watermelon doesn’t intersect with my life as often as it should. It’s a delightful summer treat - I can’t think of anything better. We had a seedless watermelon the week of Camp Cassidy, and all the kids seemed to agree with my assessment. We bought another round one a few weeks ago, but it sat […]
Frank really had fun on Saturday at the blueberry festival’s pie-eating contest. He was one of three judges, alongside the town manager and the college’s new basketball coach. But - he was the only one to turn up in a white tuxedo and black tophat. Amazingly, he got away without a spot of blueberry on […]
Frank was Grillman on Sunday, the day for the church picnic across the street. The last successful picnic was two years ago, on a wonderful day when everyone not only turned out and stayed, but brought side dishes as Frank and Deacon Jim handled the grills.
This time, the turnout was smaller, but we still think […]