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Because it’s required, that’s why.
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Not being a ketchup fan I usually eat mine plain… but if I have to dip?
Pass the garlic and herb aioli and then stay out of breathing range.
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How about you…
What’s your go to dip?
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Let’s play.
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Calling all bird nerds…
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If you care nothing for the feeding and rare sightings of our fine feathered friends please feel free to skip this post because I’m about to gush like a horny ornithologist.
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Yesterday evening at 7:41pm I walked by one of the windows that looks out over our backyard and saw this.
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We’ve lived in this home for over 20 years and I’ve only spied this elusive creature twice.
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They’re big, usually 20 inches long.
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They like deeply wooded areas and though we hear their jackhammer like drilling occasionally it’s rare to see them out in the open no less hanging on our suet nugget feeder having a nosh .
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To say I was thrilled is an understatement.
There was a female pileated woodpecker in our backyard!!!!
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The sexes can be distinguished by the amount of red feathers on their heads. Red halfway down the face to the eyes? Female. Red all the way down to the beak? Male.
River the bird nerd at your service.
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Not exactly a riveting video, I know.
But I had to share.
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Miscellaneous snippets.
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A little bit of this and a whole lot of nothing.
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Lord Dudley Mountcatten … taking a break from strolling to survey his domain.
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You either get it or you don’t.
My husband went to the original Woodstock, then turned around and left… saying it wasn’t his scene.
Clearly he didn’t get it.
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Book banning?
Huge pet peeve.
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Funny how that works.
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King Eider’s is a fun pub on the coast.
Their sign is always equally as fun.
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Woke up to this.
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I walked outside this morning to fill the bird feeders and found this.
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A pile of feathers.
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Having a hawk who uses our backyard as his personal hunting ground, this isn’t unusual… but seeing this around noon was.
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A young starling made numerous trips to the pile and gathered all the feathers in his (her?) beak.
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I’m sure they make wonderfully soft nest liners…
And are the perfect example of Mother Nature’s ability to recycle.
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Not unexpected, but still sad.
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We visited my husband’s uncle in the hospice last week. He was in good spirits…. laughing and joking with the nurses.
When we visited yesterday? We were met by a nurse who said we weren’t allowed in his room and then ushered into the chapel.
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We were told to wait here for someone to come talk to us.
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We waited and a woman we hardly knew, someone my husband’s uncle called ‘niece’ but wasn’t actually related, came in to inform us the uncle had taken a turn for the worse a few days before and was totally unresponsive. The end being near, his son was flying in that day from Florida and left instructions no visitors were to be allowed.
Needless to say we were beyond shocked.
Barred from seeing him. Barred from saying goodbye.
It was all I could do to stop my husband from storming the beachhead.
Since the son is legally next of kin and has power of attorney, the facility listens to him. There was nothing we could do.
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Except cry.
I did a good bit of that.
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Cruel and unusual.
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The husband and I stopped in for a late lunch in between nursing home and hospice visits the other day.
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It’s been an emotional roller coaster lately so we happily filled them up and drank them down.
But it went straight downhill for me when my husband ordered his appetizer.
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For a woman who loves lobster but came up allergic to it 10 years ago?
This was pure Hell.
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He’s an odd bird.
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I love to read.
I love Lord Dudley Mountcatten.
Sometimes… these two loves collide.
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Why my little guy finds it necessary to mark certain books is beyond my ken, but he certainly seems to enjoy it.
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Tidbits
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It’s fiddlehead season and Mainers go absolutely nuts for this peculiar green.
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Basically they’re just new, unfurled fern fronds but people guard their harvest locations closely and take the secret to their grave.
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Lord Dudley Mountcatten is still demanding his morning coffee.
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Cats. They’re creatures of habits too.
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The sides of Maine’s highways are turning out to be perfect places for solar farms. Panels are popping up everywhere.
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In case you were wondering just how big the giant roof lobster on top of the restaurant that sells the giant lobster roll actually is.
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News you can’t use.
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You can’t use it, but I’m still putting it out there.
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Geese are territorial little buggers, and while I’ve never been personally attacked, I do tend to give them a wide berth.
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Good call Al. Neither do I….
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Maine’s state bird is the Chickadee… and you will pry him from our cold dead hands.
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Damn. My complaints about the red squirrel seem somewhat trivial now.
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And so it begins….
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Yes, after owning his current BMW sedan for barely 2 years my husband has decided he wants a new vehicle.
And by new… I mean my husband’s version of new which is usually 20 years old. He’s rough on vehicles and puts a lot of miles on them quickly so while I buy new, he doesn’t. Which is why he always wants a different one every few years. He plum wears them out.
His current car is a 2006 and since he’s on a BMW kick, the next one has to be as well. Tired of him constantly buying and selling I persuaded him to go a little newer this time. Ya know… preferably in the last decade. It was a struggle but I convinced him to draw the line at 2014. Nothing older.
I also leaned heavily on the idea of an SUV. River’s bad knee has had enough of climbing out of low slung rides.
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We found this blue one..
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And took her for a spin.
But the porridge was too hot.
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We found this brown one and took her for a spin.
But the porridge was too cold.
We drove for 7 hours that day randomly hitting car dealers and private sellers. The result? Those two.
Apparently the BMW X3’s are a rare breed in our part of the world.
The search continues…
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