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Nathan was invited into Bangor to go Trick or Treating with his cousins this year.  We haven’t done much in the way of Treating in years past.  Mostly it’s just been dressing up and visiting family.  Last year he had an outfit to wear, but never ended up going.  He bounced back and forth from… Continue reading »

..weening, and all through the house… Nathan and I carved some pumpkins tonight.  We just watched a Food Challenge about pumpkin carving so we were armed with… absolutely nothing like they had for tools.  Oh well, we had fun. While we were chopping up our pumpkins, Jess peeled some caramels and prepped the goo for… Continue reading »

..but not giving up.  I wanted to get 4,000 miles on the bike this riding season (read: Calendar Year).  But it looks like I’ll probably miss by a mere couple hundred miles.  The forecast for today was to be in the sixties, but it never made it.  I was thinking it would be the last… Continue reading »

When I was growing up, my playground was the great outdoors.  At ten or so, we’d play out back in the woods for hours and when we were a bit older, we were brave enough to play in the woods across the road.  There was no real concern for our parents that anyone was going… Continue reading »

So I’m not the best grandson there is, but I do try and write to my eighty-six year old grandmother once in a while and try and visit once in a great while.  She had to move out of her house this summer and into an assisted living place.  As it is for most elderly people… Continue reading »

After playing musical “thermostats” with the three we have, I think I’ve got the one for the pellet stove in place now.  I think.  The one I just bought for it was touchy.  Every time it was only one degree off, the pellet stove would kick on.  Then, in less than five minutes, it would… Continue reading »

We’ve had our Wii for nearly two years now.  We buy games for it occasionally, trying to get the ones that are on sale.  Nathan was big into LEGO Star Wars: The Ultimate Saga for the longest time, but that all changed when baseball became his new life changing, time absorber.  He’s now on his… Continue reading »

Nathan had his Fall Festival today.  It’s a mandatory event for all students, but really just a cash cow fund raiser for the upper class-men. He enjoys it.  He’s now in third grade and it was a big step for Mama to let him run around and hang out with his friends without immediate supervision. There are a bunch… Continue reading »

Being from Aroostook Country, we didn’t always have the proper scientific term for everything.  We knew what we were talking about, and everyone else knew too, so that was good enough.   If you’re outside even occasionally and happened to be mildly observant, you’ve noticed a white flying insect in the air.  About this time… Continue reading »

Jess and I had a chance to get out on the motorcycle one more time this year.  Sixty-six degrees out and the sun was shining. Yeah, almost half way through October!  We put an extra layer on and added the full body leather and pounded on nearly a hundred miles…. in one go.  I usually… Continue reading »