Since reviewing our initial list of Netflix choices, we have ordered several more. One of them, the Marx Brothers’ Monkey Business, just turned up in the mailbox. It had not been at the top of the list, last I remember. Frank, however, has figured out how to change the list so Marx Brothers movies […]
This is that time of year that Frank’s 20th Maine buddies make the drive to Gettysburg to clean up their corner of the battlefiel under National Park Service direction. Since it’s the 10th year for the trip, Frank decided to join them after passing it up for the last two years.
Dare I say, I believe […]
I’ve never seen anyone but 86-year-old Gladys Hicks of Milbridge, Maine, believe in herself so much. For years she told all around her, “I want to get included in the Make A Difference Day lists.” Of course, that was prospect of national proportions, and we all murmured, “Yes, yes, Gladys.”
Well, the old woman they […]
This is the biggest, fastest snowfall of the year — probably six or eight inches by now. The university is closed, so we are all enjoying unexpected extra time at home. Still, as I’ve said plenty already since January, this is not my cup of tea and it’s time to move on.
We have a new (to us) 2003 PT Cruiser in the driveway. Metallic blue, standard, 34,012 miles. (Now 34,074 miles since Frank drove it from the Ellsworth dealership). Pretty snazzy if you ask me.
Frank had his sights set on a PT Cruiser since last August, when we rented one in Baltimore last August for the […]