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Canadian funnies, ice fishing fabulousness and a dump run I told you so.

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I’ve never been to Canada but am well acquainted with their geese.

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Seriously, these birds don’t play.

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We love the noisy little devils and see them often in our part of Maine.

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Because honestly, who needs ICE when you have geese?

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A photo of our local ice fishing camp at sunset.

I have no desire to sit on a stool in a frozen shack and stare at a hole in the ice waiting for tiny, oily smelt to swim by, but it’s hard to argue with the optics.

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Okay, I admit it. My husband came home from the “gift store” … aka the dump… with a treasure.

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A brand new Star Wars Death Star cheese cutting set that we’re going to give to a friend who’s obsessed with the movies.

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$86 at Macy’s and the husband got it for free.

He was grinning from ear to ear…. while I was horrified at the dangerous precedent this is going to set.

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They’re not even close.

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We were expecting two packages the other day and after receiving an email saying they had been delivered? I searched… but found nothing.

And then I looked out our side window in the den. It faces our neighbors long driveways that lead down to their houses on the water.

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Spotting two boxes and thinking they might be ours, the husband went to check.

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Neither one was…

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They’d just been dumped in the snow by delivery drivers too lazy to drive the distance to our neighbor’s houses.

Do you know what happens to cardboard boxes that are dumped in melting snow? They get wet, and fall apart and provide no protection to the items inside.

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So my husband walked back to get his car, retrieved the soggy packages and delivered them to our neighbors.

Good thing too… because our boxes had been delivered to them by mistake.

Geesh.

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News you can’t use.

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Because it’s Monday and we all feel useless.

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And as far as I’m concerned… Florida can keep them.

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Dandelion condoms?

Who looked at that pesky weed and thought, gee … that looks like great birth control.

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Proof positive rough Saturday nights have been around for a verrrrry long time.

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I’m guessing other things will be boosted. Be sure to stay upwind…

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That’s one tough bird.

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Not my idea of paradise, but to each their own.

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Is there nothing it can’t cure?

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Have you ever tried mushroom coffee?

I didn’t know it was a thing until my Facebook page started exploding with ads for the damned stuff.

I don’t drink coffee so I’m not apt to try it, but if you believe their ads this miracle beverage is like a Ginsu knife from the 70’s… it does everything.

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Impressive.

Though if I was the lady on the left I think I’d contact a doctor before reaching for mushroom coffee.

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A fresh coat and a floating snowman.

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We woke up to six inches of new snow in our part of Maine this morning.

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Enough to make everything look fresh…

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Enough so the rhodendrons are wearing white hats.

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Enough so the husband had to shovel his way out to feed the birds.

(He’s started bringing the feeders inside every evening because once the deer eat all their treat, the greedy bastards turn to our feeders and break them all trying to extract the seed)

But as much as I love a fresh snow fall, it was this Facebook story that made me smile the widest.

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Chebeague is an island in Casco Bay.

I lived there for 6 marvelous years during my late adolescence.

My father died and is buried there.

I met and married my husband there when he was home on leave from the Marine Corps.

Accessible only by boat, life there can be tough. But it’s also magical.

So it doesn’t surprise me that this little snowman built near the water…

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Should break free and go on a grand adventure.

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I like to think he’s still out there somewhere ….

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On his way across the Atlantic.

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Let’s play.

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If you’ve never read a Stephen King book or watched a Stephen king movie?

Never mind.

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I’ve never been on a cruise, and have no desire to board a floating Petri dish of noro virus contagion… but if forced?

I’d bring John Coffey from The Green Mile, the only Stephen King book that literally made me weep. If you don’t think the master of horror and weirdness can pen a heartfelt and beautiful story? You need to read The Green Mile. I dare you not to choke up when John cures the warden’s wife.

That poor man is in dire need of a vacation.

And if John can’t come, because.. you know, he’s dead?

I’d pick Andy Dufresne and Red, from The Shawshank Redemption. The other King masterpiece that proves he can really write if he wants to.

Andy, Red and me at the bar…. raising a glass to Rita Hayworth, second chances and friendship.

Yeah, I can see that.

How about you…

What Stephen King character are you taking on a cruise?

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