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Teta Beck's Knitting Basket
Teta Beck's Knitting NeedlesWhile knitting a hat, Bev's daughter was looking through her Grandmother's (Teta in Arabic) knitting bag, and realized that no one had sorted it out since she died, many...
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Where's Dinner
Late in the afternoon the senior goats are taking over the patio, making themselves comfortable, waiting for the cocktail hour. Just because there's a barn in the background, or rubber boats in the...
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Strawberries
A summer tradition the past couple years is the June trek to LaVigne's Farm to pick the most delicious strawberries. It was a hot morning after rain off and on for the past few weeks, and the berries...
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Flying Lessons
It happened like this last year...but there were fewer geese. About the first week of June, two adult birds, walked out of the tall grass, separating the "wetlands" on one side of the property,...
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Pressing Apples
Apple pressing in a neighbor's shop left dried apple flesh shaped like a doughnut. The apple pieces were broken apart and carried off in 5 gallon buckets to become dessert for goats and pigs. We...
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Proud Goat
Goat creativity. Star put her goat noggin to use when she realized the best place to get the freshest hay, and best selection was from inside the hay trough.
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Humter's Moon Kennebunk Beach
October's full moon is called the Hunter's Moon and the Dying Grass Moon. I am reminded that there was never a second cut of the hay, because it was quite dry the later half of the summer. There is...
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Autumn Morning
Morning light just rising above the trees lights up the foliage on the other side of the pond. It was warm enough later in the day to take the last swim of the season.
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Apple Slices
The apple harvest is nearing the end of the season. A couple cold nights seemed to have sweetened the apples that remain on the trees. To the delight of the goats the wind and time has felled enough...
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Getting Ready for Winter
Bojangles the cat and Cody the Pug have already assumed, or resumed their Winter positions by the wood stove. Cody is the fire marshal around the farm and takes his job very seriously. Most days he...
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Kennebunkport Dock Square Snow Fall
It is the morning after Solstice and this picture was taken in Dock Square, Kennebunkport, after stopping into a local candy shop. I almost never consider shopping in Dock Square, because it feels...
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Frosty Rain
Time races by and the summer seems like a distant but pleasant memory that slipped out of reach like a retreating tide. It is the time for opening a jar of relish made in the fall, butternut squash...
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Christmas Garden
If you take a look at the video on YouTube of this snowstorm scene you will see toward the end, two birds fly out of the birch tree, land on a sunflower stalk, and reach around to grab a seed. I was...
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Maine Self-Serve Veggie Stand
One of the things that is most endearing about Maine is that things that require trust in the community, still exist--like this self serve vegetable stand about 3 miles from my home. One evening, about...
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Jerusalem Artichokes
I developed a bit of a love affair with the Jerusalem artichoke over the past season, and it continues on into the winter. Yesterday, I made a tuna salad wrap, using a peeled Jerusalem artichoke in...
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Barn Swallows
This was the first flight of the five nestling barn swallows hatched and raised in the barn. Each year one or two pairs of barn swallows returns to the barn. Last year, one pair stayed and had a second...
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the Hay Wagon
The hay arrived, of course, just as Bev was driving to Southwest Harbor, and I had the great idea of putting it up myself...I had the conveyer, right? Five bales on the conveyer, run upstairs, unload...
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Fork in the Road
When you come to a fork in the road, take it.,” Yogi Berra.Twilight, as August moves more quickly into September than we might want, the quiet settles in. The frogs and crickets are still in chorus,...
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Flying Lobster
“It looks like a little flying lobster, with two eyes on it's tail,” Bev said as we looked at the flying creature hovering over the Cleome flower. It was completed undeterred by us watching it as it...
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