Anticipating a cozy evening at home with Frank knitting and me on the Internet as the movie plays, we just opened our latest Netflix arrival, “Twelve Angry Men.” Alas, it was a “bad disc” and has a crack in it, so we won’t be watching that tonight.
Frank just walked over to the library and brought […]
So, it has been exactly one month since we gave up delivery of the daily papers. For the first week it was troubling — we were missing a starting routine to the day that we had come to love. Now, however, we just can’t see how we ever managed to rise at 4:10 for 20 […]
Never gave it much thought, actually, before Sunday afternoon. I attended the opening of the new dormitory for the private-public Washington Academy in East Machias, where the the local Masons and officials from the Grand Lodge of Maine did the cornerstone ceremony.
The laying of the cornerstone has been done for hundreds of years as a […]
You ever get a song in your head that goes round-and-round-and-round? Uh-huh. Right now the song in my head is “Reuben James.” It’s a Woddy Guthrie song, but I like the Kingston Trio version about the first US Navy ship sunk (in 1941) by hostile action during World War II.
It’s that chorus: “Oh tell me […]
This is not why we live in Downeast Maine. The first snow came yesterday, starting around 10am and keeping Frank from driving to Ellsworth. We could tell that it would be the sleety, slippery snow that would make roads bad. It kept up until about 6pm, and we heard the snowplows outside a couple times.
This […]
Today we had Events, two of them. The morning event was coffee, juice and baked goodies at our house after the 8am Mass. We had announced this two weeks ago, saying that we would host the coffee hour rather than having the usual coffee hour in the St. Francis room at the church. Of course, […]