Here Moosie, Moosie!

I have yet to see a moose, but I keep hoping. My friend e-mailed me this story and it only happened an hour away from here! I'm not sure where the story and photos originated, but I'm so glad they shared the experience. Read on:

I have never seen a newborn moose. This one was not even a half a mile from our house. The mother picked a small quiet neighborhood and had her baby in the front yard at 5:30 am. We were out bike riding when we came upon the pair. The lady across the street from this house told us she saw it being born. We saw them at 5:30 pm. So the little one was 12 hours old. What an awesome place we live in to see such a site!

South Addison

We spent the 4th of July and the weekend up in South Addison, Maine with friends, friends of friends, and three dogs. You can see that it is quite far up the coast and I overheard someone saying on the phone, "Imagine a place as remote as you can, and we are about 4 hours more remote than that." There were 18 people in total and we had a great time, despite the rain and fog. There were beach fires, lobster, and hilarious games of catch phrase. The house and barn are really old and it was fun just taking pictures of all the items still hanging around like they might get used at any moment. Thanks to Leanne for some of the photos!

Welcome to my new office

Actually, all those commercials with people working on a sunny rooftop or in a park are a joke. It is just too bright to see the screen unless you want to look like a freak with this on your computer:


I will have to save the deck time for the less bright evening hours. Notice all the ugly brown peeling paint? What kind of genius paints a deck? We say every year that it will be our summer project, but we are serious this time. Scraping doesn't really help, so we have resorted to a toxic chemical peel and we'll stain it after that.

Lilacs

I wish you all had smellivision so I could share the delicious lilac scent wafting through my house. I am so lucky to have a whole row of them! These two look like a butterfly, don't you think?

Forsythia

I wish I could say this was in my yard, but it belongs to my neighbor with the perfect yard. I call him Pick Up Sticks because he goes out every morning and collects even the tiniest twigs. I'm glad I can enjoy his efforts from my living room window. We have some forsythia in the back, but it's more of a ratty, overgrown mess and not so perfect.

Good Huntin'

It was so nice today, we went to nearby Fort McClary to look for sea glass. It was very successful, probably due to all the storms! We found some rare red and pink glass. I'm trying to collect a little bottle full of each color for the small pieces and the big pieces just go in the printer's rack. I just happen to have a picture of the printer's rack from yesterday when an unwanted visitor decided to camp out there. Scroll down to find him! Sorry, I know it's gross, but imagine it in person.

Nor'easter S'more'easter

It rained all day today (and will probably snow tonight), but last night was a great night for fire at our friends' house — a little chilly, but perfect near the fire. I certainly am looking forward to summer and not having to wear socks.