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Let’s play.

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You’re here.

You might as well…

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That’s an easy one for me.

Books!

I’m an avid reader and start to twitch if my pile of unread material drops below a dozen.

I order so many books from Amazon I may be personally responsible for Jeff Bezos’s new yacht.

Our little local library can’t keep up with me and trying to buy books at thrift stores has me walking down the aisles shaking my head, ticking off titles and mumbling read it, read it, read it…..

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Unlimited books?

That’s heaven on earth to me.

How about you…

What lifetime supply would you want?

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The A1.

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Sometimes you just have to eat lunch at a diner and in our neck of the woods the A1 is a good choice.

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Walking into the original 1946 Worcester car #790 is like stepping back in time.

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In amazing shape for it’s age, the wood is polished..

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And the chrome is shining.

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Even the pass through hole to the kitchen is sparkling.

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For a diner, the menu is wide and varied.

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And my massive turkey club on homemade toast with hand cut fries did not disappoint.

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Guy Fieri featured this place on his show Diners, Drive Ins and Dives and it even made it into a cartoon.

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If you’re ever in Gardiner, Maine stop by. I promise you won’t leave hungry…

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The driveway replacement finale.

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The back half of the driveway was done and paving moved to the front.

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Which means the big machine was put into play. If you’ve never seen the process, it really is kind of fascinating.

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Before long they were at the road end.

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And the wheelbarrow brigade was back in action.

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Fill, dump, spread.

Repeat.

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When they’d made us a nice entrance…

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The final smoothing commenced.

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A little more on the edges…

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And they were stringing the don’t drive on me for a week! sign.

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Which surprised me because we were originally told to let it set for 3.

Either way, it looks good.

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And a damn sight better than it did.

Before and after pics to come.

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And we’re paving….

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The day we’d been waiting for finally arrived .

A temporary mailbox had been installed…

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The blockade was removed….

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And paving commenced.

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The crew pulled in at 7:30am with the big machine but a lot had to happen before they fired up that baby.

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Spray painting for instance.

But when the dump truck with the hot tar arrived, things really kicked into high gear.

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The bump out parking area was the first spot to be paved.

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And I have to say … those laborers I photographed sitting down playing with their phones really earned their pay this day.

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Time is of the essence when the tar is hot and they were positively trotting while dumping wheelbarrow after wheelbarrow full of the heavy stuff into place.

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It’s a whole lotta work.

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In front of the garage by the kitchen porch was next.

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And I’m sure the crew thought the lady who lives here was nuts for running from window to window to take pictures of the progress.

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A little portable packing and smoothing later, that section was done.

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A nibbler and a very chill fox.

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The baby woodchucks are growing and seem to be everywhere at once.

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One little guy likes to grab a carrot slice and eat it in privacy on the stone wall.

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Which I must admit makes for some cute pictures.

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Our momma fox is coming earlier than usual now and usually shows up by 4:00pm.

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Chances are her babies are running her ragged and she appreciates the easy source of food.

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Poor momma.

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She’s so tired she eats lying down.

❤️

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Driveway replacement inconveniences.

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As we wait for the smoothed dirt to dry on the newly torn up and backfilled driveway, a word about the inconveniences of this repair/replace project.

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Ours cars now have to sit outside in the elements for the week it’s taking the crew to do the job and probably for 2-3 weeks after that. Forget the fact that Ethel, my Subaru, is a garage virgin and has never spent a night outside…. not being able to use the driveway means the only place we can pull into our property is way out here.

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Which makes walking to your car in the rain and hauling groceries back to the house a right royal pain in the *ss.

And since we contracted to have the culvert replaced?

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Our mailbox had to go as well.

Trying to predict what time the postman will drive by so I can run out there to meet him is getting old fast.

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Driveway repair part nine…. finishing touches to dirt and the husband’s blockade.

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The rough work on the driveway repair was coming to a close.

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Small loads of the top layer of dirt were finessed.

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With numerous wheelbarrow trips.

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Though not everyone was hard at work.

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Lots of dumping. Lots of spreading by hand.

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And then the crew whipped out a big power saw and started cutting away part of the road.

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I didn’t realize they were allowed to do that, but clearly they are.

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And when I say cut, I mean rip up big chunks as well.

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Nest step? Smooth and pack the dirt.

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And at the end of the day we were left with this.

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Which we were told was a little too wet to pave so it would have to sit for a few days to dry.

We were also told not to drive on it. And since a lot of people use our driveway to turn around?

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The husband built a blockade.

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News you can’t use.

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You can’t use it, but keep reading anyway.

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Giving new meaning to their slogan “we’ve got the beef”.

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And I’m supposed to care about this why…?

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How glad are you to be a loyal reader now?

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Approachable size. 

I’m dying.

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I can barely stand myself in this universe. Meeting another 100 versions of me is not on the top of my bucket list.

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I don’t envy that town’s Chamber of Commerce. Spinning cannibal crickets to the tourist trade has got to be tough.

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