Well, that’s one of the many potential outcomes when you build a deck. Right now the backyard doesn’t look like much of a deck, but a few support beams are in place. And for a brief moment yesterday, the very heavy support beams were placed right on Frank’s two index fingers. How that happened exactly, […]
It was great. Details to follow. Frank and I never had more fun on the road.
That’s my line: “I’m with the band.”
This morning, in exactly 30 minutes, Frank and I are going on a road trip. We’re with the band. UMM’s Ukulele Band, that is. They are HOT. About 17 uke-players are going, and us, in two 12-person vans. It’s the coffeehouse tour, where they have dates (Saturday and […]
We had to. We had turned it off about a week ago, but the rain and chill of the last two days, brought back my cold. I knew I was in trouble this morning when I woke up in a cold room, and all the sniffles, all over again. So I tried work, only to […]
At last, we got to see “The Queen” from Netflix. Very, very enjoyable. Was she really that bad?
Interestingly, the commencement speaker was Frank Van Riper, a Washington, DC, photographer who has a summer home in Lubec. He did a booksigning (for “Down East Maine: A World Apart,” a wonderful collection of his photos and […]
You know how bad colds hit you - they wait until the Big Thing is out of the way, and then wham, you’re in bed for two days. That’s what happened earlier this week. The school had its commencement on Saturday, and I spent most of Sunday and Monday in bed (after having succeeded in […]
How appropriate for this first posting in May, that Downeast Maine’s fabled blackflies are with us once again. Uggh. Not fun. You stand outside with a friend, and all the blackflies gather ’round. But, it is May 14, and May and June is the season. Ugggh.