At least, I think that’s the name of the place in Vernon, Connecticut, which is wonderfully located about six hours from Potomac and eight hours from Machias. In all of our driving down for this or that, our trip home after Thanksgiving was the first time that passing the Vernon exit along Interstate 95 coincided […]
You’d think we had died, for lack of entries in this blog. Time to get with it again. At least this one makes for one more entry for the November archives.
Life for us is actually a lot more fun than this blog makes it seem. We have friends, things to do, professional this and that. We go here and there. We just don’t record it all on these pages.
We had an openhouse on Sunday, Nov. 12 for our newspaper friends, and while we overspent and […]
I have to echo Annie’s “30 Years” comment on her blog, because I also can’t believe that Spike turned 30 yesterday, Nov. 19.
Gosh, has it been that long since he was “Just home … just“? Even though I am now 47 and he’s now just 30, he is still our baby brother.
So, it has been one week since we last delivered our papers, on Saturday, Nov. 11. Interestingly, someone in Machias, about age 25, had shown interest in our route by last Monday, although apparently he doesn’t have a car and intended to do the whole route by walking. Impossible. Twice our paper didn’t arrive, […]
No, not the “customer appreciation openhouse” that we held Sunday afternoon for all the customers along the paper route. The paper route itself is a thing of the past, and all because Frank has his principles. Back on Nov. 1, he said, “I can’t support a company that fired my wife,” then sent his notice […]
We live in a place small enough that local veterans are honored in very public ways. Take Thursday, for example, the day when each area high school held assemblies. At Machias Memorial High School, Frank was one of about 40 men and women who stood when their name was called (”Frank Cassidy, U.S. Navy, 1968-1972″). […]
Without dredging up all the awful details (although that would be a post all by itself), let’s just say that Frank and I will be tightening the belt. We have sliced the Netflix plan to the one-at-a-time, $12 a month option. We are cutting out the casual dinners at the Bluebird Ranch restaurant, which have […]