BF called me at work yesterday and mentioned that dinner was taken care of. I got home, and we hopped in the car. We headed toward Gorham, at which point I became very confused, as we don’t jointly know anyone that lives out in that direction. It took me a few more miles before I […]
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Sunday’s adventure, for something close to home, but a little different, was the Mail Boat Run – three hours cruising Casco Bay. We packed a lunch, and enjoyed the scenery and the cool breeze. We actually managed to see a seal, who kindly did a full length dive for us, and plenty of sea birds.
Our second stop on Saturday was the Thuya Garden, which is run by the same land preserve as the Azalea Garden. Unlike the Azalea Garden, it’s still early in the season, so while there were some blooms, it was obvious that the best is yet to come. Still, it’s a beautifully laid out garden, and
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We’re into full on winter wonderland mode here, which means I’m pretty much holed up in the house, not really going anywhere interesting, hence the lack of anything other than reading and knitting posts. Here is the best I can manage to remedy that. We’ve acquired a new neighbor. One of the local red tailed
For something a little different today, I found a cruise that goes out to Eagle Island, a state park that was the summer home of Admiral Robert Peary (the first American to reach the North Pole), and his family. The island is on the ocean side of Casco Bay (sadly, I was not able to
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On Saturday, we brought P’s parents up to the Coastal Maine Botanical Garden in Boothbay. We spent a good deal of time in the newly opened Children’s Garden, which is the kind of place I would have gone gaga over when I was younger. There are so many cool nooks and crannies to explore, and
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In the interests of finding new and different things to do on a Saturday where we have nowhere special to be, the BF came up with the idea of making a list of state parks, and trying to visit as many as possible this summer. So we started this Saturday, at pretty much the southernmost
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