I arrived home the other day to find Matthew and Sarah in the kitchen talking to Diane. I told Matt to leave the room because I had something I wanted to ask Sarah in private. Matt shook his head as he headed down the hall to the living room. I knew Sarah had heard most […]
bang bang bang’s comment reminds me that I’d better post the new improved camping date. 5/15 is a problem for two reasons. The most important is that Adam might be otherwise occupied. The second, one that only parents care about, is that the MCAS begins on Tuesday 5/18. So how about 5/23? I tiled Roland’s […]
The BMW has been drivable, but only because it has been starting instantly. However, shut it off and try to start it again, and it struggles briefly before giving up. That’s why I finally ordered a new starter motor online, and that’s why yesterday when I got home I asked Matthew, “You want to install […]
And now, as Paul Harvey would say, the rest of the story: Chapter Three by Adam Before anybody could think long and hard enough to back out, Michael had flashlight in hand and was off through the undergrowth, the boys sucked in behind as if tethered to him, loathe to let any distance grow between […]
View larger image We were invited to an early spring barbecue at the Hopkin’s Saturday night, and I raised a hot topic Diane and I had been “fighting ” (her word) about. I called it a moral dilemma. Matt wants to go camping in Gilsum (in Maine, he kept asking, “Why come here when we […]
View larger Adam Chapter One by Adam We were herded by circumstance onto Spencer Bay. As posted before leaving, we were headed for Lobster Pond, but an updated Maine Gazetteer purchased in the Indian Hills Trading post outside Greenville made it clear there was no access by road. Then we bottomed out in snow and […]
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Chris In typical tourist fashion Mark, me and the boys, as well as my friend Shelley’s family, took the Fenway Park tour today. It’s something I’ve never done and as a fan I must say I recommend it. We had the ancient tour guide who’s been going there since the Year One. Things I learned […]
Snow, bridges out, flooded back roads, and more muck than our four wheel drive Frontier could maneuver through, kept us from truly remote camp sites. Lobster Lake, Blood, Roach and Trout Ponds were all inaccessible. By the end of Saturday, with the truck covered in mud and pleading for rest, we clattered into Spencer Bay […]
Maine map with our destination, Lobster Lake. View larger image Today did not proceed according to my best laid plans. Diane’s front pads on her Mazda, which were ground down to the metal, took twice as long to fix, and then the boiler in the basement sprung a leak. That was easy to fix. I […]
Flo returned from Arizona, tan, and tired from the long plane ride, but effusive about her sister and brother-in-law who treat her like royalty. After we entered her apartment, the first thing Flo did was look under her bed for her cat, Abu. And Abu, dsyfunctionally true to form, meowed, but did not budge from […]
Flo returned from Arizona, tan, and tired from the long plane ride, but effusive about her sister and brother-in-law who treat her like royalty. After we entered her apartment, the first thing Flo did was look under her bed for her cat, Abu. And Abu, dsyfunctionally true to form, meowed, but did not budge from […]