The tops of the tall pines and Mark’s posture convey the height of this granite bluff, but what you can’t see is my impulse to give him a little push. View from above First Debsconeag Lake. Our campsite is far to the left, out of the photo. View larger image
Comments added to Memories have temporarily delayed my next major entry – The Canning Sisters: Frail or Tragically Flawed? Matthew went to bed early yesterday and missed this on the answering machine, ìHi, this message is for Matt Miller from Leonard, Alpha Automotive. Your car is done, believe it or not, it is running fine.î […]
IÃm not sure where the last photo was taken, Adam. However, I thought IÃd post this one because it retains some of the warthog shape, and it fully illustrates what we find so rare in Maine in October. No wind. Click on View image and youÃll see what I mean.
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I answered the phone yesterday evening and it was Florence. ìWhat day is it? Saturday or Sundayî? When I brought her milk and Windex this afternoon, she told me that she waited for the school bus last Friday. Not to hop aboard but to hand out Halloween candy to all the children. She laughed as […]
Adam Kibbe You get enough people together in one place, and it may be directly demonstrable that local gravity increases. By inference, it seems it might have — enough stuff fell down. There was one partygoer who went down like a ton of bricks a foot shy of our dining table with no apparent obstacle […]
Pretty lake pic for Chris. View larger image Writing class update. Handed in Clemency and got back this: “Please tell me: why do you omit transitions and time cues? I can’t believe you think it a virtue to be deliberately obscure.” Not really the feedback I was expecting, and much to the chagrin of almost […]
The moon setting in front of my tent at about 5 AM. View larger image
Found this guy in the stream connecting the First and Second Debsconeag Lakes. View larger image Many things I understand about Matthew. Many things I donÃt; his work ethic is one. He works every Saturday at the West Acton Convenience Market, and has since he turned fourteen, when the owner, Peter Kennedy, offered him the […]
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Christopher Schreiber was given two tickets to the sixth game of the Yankee series. He chose to take his sister Molly. Overjoyed at the early Red Sox lead, and surrounded by Yankee fans, Molly called home and left this message: ìGuess where I am with Chris? Guess who is up four to one? IÃll call […]
Mt Katahdin View larger image Wednesday is MattÃs night to cook dinner and he usually barbeques on our dubious gas grill. Tonight he invited Robby to help and they both ate Boca Burgers as they waited for the chicken to cook. Earlier they had to toss out a box of meal moth infested Rice Pilaf. […]