photo blog

I’m not ready for a tree yet.  I could wait until about the twenty-second and be fine with that.  Last year Jess bought a nice little faux tree, the kind that comes out of the box all ready to use.  Just add power.  My kind of tree. Nathan squawked a fair amount last year about… Continue reading »

We were able to get our “monthly” hike in today.  Jess wants to try and get out every month, so we’ll see how long we can go. We “slept” in (read: no alarm clock), and took our time leaving.  We were held up in Holden by a car accident, and eventually detoured.  With the slow… Continue reading »

Another bird was consumed in Wesley this year by the Waite clan.  This was our second year over on the hill for Thanksgiving.  Twenty of us gathered around the table and enjoyed a meal.  There’s so much to be thankful for this year.  I hope you and yours had a wonderful day that was shared… Continue reading »

[New video added - the YouTube version had unacceptable quality] We did something a little different this year at Thanksgiving.  We organized a session of skeet shooting.  In years past there was usually someone going hunting before the day was out.  While that tradition was stopped long ago on the Waite side, it still continues… Continue reading »

“You can have the ball when you pry it from my cold, frozen fingers!” Nathan didn’t say it… but then again, we haven’t asked him to give up baseball for the winter either.  He can play as long as he wants to, I just may not be able to “play through”. We arrived early at… Continue reading »

You know you live in Maine (or Alaska) when you wake up in the morning, you just received a fresh fall of snow and when you get in your vehicle to drive to work… there’s a Mosquito flying around in there! Tough little bugger eh?

“the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” I got up early this AM to head down to a friends (Matt) to help with a project.  Once I arrived, I learned that the materials weren’t there, so the project would not commence. I brought along my rifle in the… Continue reading »

..and that’s my lawn your leak’ing on! Another Friday working from home.  I don’t usually expect to see much on the outskirts of Charleston.  Today was a bit different.  A truck pulled off the road in front of the house, the driver got out, walked over to the “hidden view” side of the truck, and… Continue reading »

..and one month, I was a bit stressed out about finding work.  Jess and I left Boston for Maine and it was she that had the job up here.  I came on faith. Very little.  I spent a full month looking for work and pacing in our “in-law” apartment. I had a couple interviews and… Continue reading »

Really exciting photo today.  Ashes and “clinkers” from the pellet stove.  I finally emptied the ash pan.  I wanted to wait until I was half way through a ton, but I decided the extra math problem was good mind excercise. I just finished burning my twentieth bag.  Eight-hundred pounds of pellets reduced to under four… Continue reading »