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The duck is back.

October 29, 2022 Rivergirl 10 Comments

I don’t know if you remember, but last year I posted about a giant rubber duck that appeared out of nowhere in the harbor of a Maine town. No one knew where it came from or who deployed it… but everyone loved it and reported sightings with gleeful enthusiasm.

Now?

It’s back…. and yeah. Bigger and better than ever.

Last year it said “Joy”, this year it’s “ Greater Joy”.

A random floating giant rubber duck is a beautiful thing.

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Rubber ducky….

August 26, 2021 Rivergirl 17 Comments

In life, mysteries abound.

And in my state? Sometimes they’re a little odd.

The duck, as you may have heard, stands some 25 feet tall. It floats in the harbor off of Belfast, a tiny city midway up the Maine coast and south of Bangor, having apparently appeared bobbing in the water there under cover of darkness. As if to overemphasize the message of happy playfulness its creator clearly aims to project, it has the word “JOY” written in big block letters across its big yellow chest. Ropes attached to weights appear to be keeping it anchored in place, as gawkers in boats and along the shore stare at it in wonder. No one knows who put it there, and the mystery surrounding its sudden unannounced arrival has quickly been noticed by news outlets across the country.

The yellow waterfowl emblazoned with the word “joy” appeared in Belfast Harbor over the weekend, and it’s a mystery who put it there.

Harbor Master Katherine Given told the Bangor Daily News that the 25-foot-tall duck doesn’t pose a navigational hazard, so there’s no rush to shoo it away. She added she heard rumors the duck floated from the town of Islesboro, south of Belfast.

“Everybody loves it,” Given said. “I have no idea who owns it, but it kind of fits Belfast. A lot of people want to keep it here.”

I tried to get my husband to take a ride up there. But driving an hour and a half to take pictures of a giant rubber ducky was not high on his list of required weekend activities.

But damn.

Talk about a missed opportunity.

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Water is life… part 2.

October 16, 2020 Rivergirl 17 Comments

Thursday morning saw our plumbers back for round 3.

The new submersible pump was fitted, hooked up and sunk in the well.

And the 90 odd feet of water line stuffed back in the hole.

🎶 Whole lotta stuffing going on. 🎶

The end was found and the cover fitted.

With a little sledgehammer persuasion.

The idea of electric wire and water in such close proximity gave me the heebie jeebies, but I’m assured that’s how it’s done.

A new type of filter called a sand trap was installed and purged. We were told our water would be sandy and sediment filled for a few days until the tank and lines clear completely. That filter turned black quickly, so you know what I’ll be doing for a while.

Anyone thirsty?

How about a nice warm bath?

After the plumbers left with $2,500 in their pockets, there was a hole to fill.

The husband, being stubborn, thought he could do it by hand. It was pure mud and weighed a ton.. so I texted our neighbor.

Good neighbors are worth their weight in gold.

And while they were doing that?

I was doing this. Sweeping muddy water into the drain hole…

And dumping purged buckets of nasty brown sediment.

Looks like I’ll be brushing my teeth with bottled water for a while longer.

But… yay!

We have running water again, even if it isn’t potable quite yet. I won’t lie… that first shower was a little strange. But things are clearer today, and by tomorrow we might be able to drink it again.