It could have been an omen, that our Maine driver’s licenses arrived this morning. After taking two days “off” (one to celebrate all the mothers), we popped up to Troy with Annie and Homer and a small list of possible tasks. We’d been feeling a little doldrum-ish, with the indeterminate state of the camper program, …
My editor when I was Design Director for the Christian Science Monitor, the late Dick Cattani, took seriously the charge to manage the whole newspaper — not just the reportage and editing, not just the graphics and photography, not just the fonts and overall publication design — ALL of it, in concert. In today’s parlance, …
“Once there was a way to get back homeward…” (Beatles) According to plan (whose fecking plan??) I made a mad solo dash up to Troy at 7:30 arriving 10 am, and spent just over an hour: Ran more water from the well Put a few more cranks on the jack in the basement — we’ve …
Today we left home huge lovable easy-going Homer, and packed up Simon for his first trip to The Land. He’d been getting increasingly tense lately with the other dogs in this house, and as sad as he gets about driving, it now seemed it might be happier for him than staying home with all those …
The earth spirits are appeased. My parents, affected by my phrase “heedless logger,” donated their live Christmas tree from last season. It is now on The Land, awaiting proper interment. The air spirits are appeased. 8:45 a.m. found me cruising the auto repair shops of Buxton, ME, all both of them, and finding “Mike” at …
Enough about standing ankle-deep in flying squirrel poop — and yes, at times the poop was flying. Let me summarize a few things: Three weeks and one day after our closing, we have a fully installed and functional propane/warm air heating system. With the help of brother-in-law Tim, all the insulation is down out of …