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Lord Dudley Mountcatten is enjoying our new coffee tables.
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More specifically, he’s enjoying the shelf on the bottom of the tables.
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He sleeps there and often brings a toy along.
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But as cute as we think he is, I admit he does have a bit of an overbite problem.
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Dracula kitty.
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🤣
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Our weather has been all over the place lately. 70 degrees during the day, 27 at night. It’s temperature whiplash but it makes for some interesting foggy mornings.
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Happily it disguises the new greenhouse construction across the street.
Yay fog.
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There’s something eerily peaceful about waking up to fog.
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It lets me ease into the day slowly.
In other news… my husband went searching for something without asking me the other day and tore everything apart in the process. He laid waste to our utility closet and was halfway though the kitchen junk drawer when I walked in.
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Ironically he organized said drawer in the process and now I can’t find anything.
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🤣
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Because I’m nothing if not helpful.
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I do love a small appliance with multiple uses…
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130 years old with two girlfriends?
Props Henry. You da man.
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This could be my future.
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Proof that you can take it with you.
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As long as it is a nice wedge of dairy.
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Don’t judge. Fish may be *ssholes 200 meters down.
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Thanks, but I’d rather not.
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I don’t watch a lot of television, but I do love getting knee deep in a good series. Here are my current picks …
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Seen on AppleTV and brought to you by the people who made Ted Lasso, one of my all time favorites.
The writing is sharp, the comedy is quick and the characters are lovable. Highly recommend.
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This is a weird one. Dramatic, well acted and I swear I’ll never be able to look at Kevin Kline the same way again.
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I have never (ever!) liked Sylvester Stallone but by God… I do now. He’s craggy and grey, but this out of his element aging Jersey mobster in Oklahoma is a winner.
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I really liked the first two seasons of this light comedy and while I don’t think #3 was quite as good… it was still worth watching.
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I’ve only seen two episodes of this deep, dark psychological thriller…. but I’m hooked. Billy isn’t laughing in this one, trust me.
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My husband says he’s done with the shed extension for this year.
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And as hard as I’ve lobbied to truly finish it with a third wall/door, my pleas are falling on deaf ears and I shall have to live with (though not quietly I assure you) a tarp that covers the open end all winter.
Grrr.
But that doesn’t mean I have to live with raw wood so I matched the old color as well as I could and got to work.
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My husband doesn’t paint.
Or stain.
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Ever.
But that’s fine, I don’t mind doing my part.
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Though I do end up wearing almost as much as whatever structure I’m painting.
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There.
At least it looks little better…
Though I’m still going to ride my spouse to put a trim post on the unfinished rear right edge.
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Big barn, little barn.
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The color match isn’t perfect, but it will do until I can put an another coat on the whole building next spring.
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I received an email from Goodreads yesterday…. the app where I log and keep track of what I’m reading.
I participate in their annual challenge where you set a goal for yourself in January and hopefully reach it by December 31rst. I’ve been doing it for two years and have overshot my target number with room to spare both times.
So why did they send me this…
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When my challenge is already showing this…
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Short books?
As you can see, that’s not necessary.
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Lord Dudley Mountcatten caught a mouse yesterday.
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Pulled it out from under the day lily undergrowth just as proud as could be.
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Not that he knew what to do with it.
We have a lot of mice here in the country, and yes… they’re sweet, but they also try to find a way in our nice warm house in the winter and that I can do without.
His Lordship’s mother would prefer he catch and quickly dispatch the rodents to Mickey Mouse heaven but Lord Dudley is a pacifist and prefers to make friends instead.
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He and his new buddy hung out like this for a while … and then went their separate ways.
Sigh.
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I love finding new cocktail recipes but sometimes I wonder where the names come from.
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This is one of those times.
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And since I’m always posting photos of sunrises and sunsets, here’s a different spin.
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Moonset.
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The mosquito is often referred to as the Maine state bird since our state has ample wooded areas and lakes for it to breed. They can get pretty large up north, but I have to admit the one we saw on someone’s front lawn the other day takes the prize.
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I’d hate to be bitten by that bastard.
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It will be quick today, I promise.
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One point for every place you’ve visited.
My number is 14, which at a little less than half isn’t bad.
How well traveled are you?
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Another beautiful fall day, another scenic drive in the never ending search for good beer.
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North to Bangor.
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To the Bangor Beer Company.
Hidden behind the mall, in the back of a Chinese restaurant… it was an odd little place.
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With a line of old pinball machines and some quirky art.
The beer? Maybe we’re too picky… we try a lot of craft breweries and may set our standards too high… but we found this selection dishwater flat and not at all interesting.
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Elderflower grapefruit martini for me.
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We expected the sesame chicken appetizer to be better seeing that it came from the large Asian restaurant in front, but it was so tough and stringy we didn’t bother ordering a full meal.
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The men’s room floor made my husband smile and snap a picture, but that’s not reason enough to ever visit this brewery again.
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Passing through downtown Bangor…
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We grabbed a quick sandwich and took the back roads home.
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😊
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