It has started again. Another clump of big outdoor pursuits is resurrected. The two wheeled kind. In the last 24 hours, I have taken two tough bicycle rides, and then fired up one of my motorcycles and taken a short ride to picnic with some old friends.
I was up to my neighbor Andy’s on Saturday, [...]
Today I received a postcard from my sister in law , V8.
On the front was a ” ‘Life Is Good’ at Uncle Johhny’s” photo.
Johnny’s is a constellation of little cabins, camping sites, dorm style beds, and outfitter’s store on the banks of the Nolichucky River in Erwin, TN. v8 [...]
easy to enjoy life. I was down there for a week, returning this past Sunday.
A string of 70 degree blue sky days, and crisp clear nights held us closely.
Music, Mexican and barbeque foods, and mountain biking out of the city on real trails with The Captain and Louis, my friends and part of MEGATEX [...]
Newspapers can offer lessons in frugality, but you have to be sharp enough to sift through the pancaked fluff to get there.
How about “How To Survive in New York on 99 Cents””?
The author made dinners for a week from ingredients purchased from $.99 stores, culminating in such a meal prepared for friends. Rice, [...]
The 4/8/08 Bangor Daily News editorial, “Early retirement is unpatriotic”, is a sorry excuse for a tenable position.
The first time I started to slog through it, I verified the date, and part of me still believes that it had been submitted as a satirical piece to run as an April Fools’ day literary joke. The [...]
It’s funny how love becomes
A cold rainy day
Its funny,
That rainy day
Is here
-Frank Sinatra
Sitting this morning
On the Trailways bus,
winding our way
Down to Boston’s Logan Airport
In the early morning rain.
I lay my head down
and gaze out the window,
soaking in the misty woods.
Time flips back a year
and I am now walking
on a high exploding flowering
ridge in North Carolina,
on [...]
Spring. Today. The first morning I was able to walk out to get my Bangor Daily News paper by the road on ground that was not frozen solid. Unbelievable! It is 7 pm now and I am still able to look outside and see the last traces of snow [...]
To do some work. I sent off my Volunteer renewal form for the 2008 season. There are some very interesting, but very demanding projects that are upcoming and I want to help out [...]
Had a great visit this morning. I made breakfast for Loon, a thru hiker from the 1998 season. He lives over in Searsmont, next town over from me. I used to work with him when he was principal of Rockport Elementary school when I worked there in 1989. He has left me [...]
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