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    Think A Little

    … on traditions in wood and spirit

    The other day was Launch Day for our new old wooden boat. It was amazing… all the excitement and funny and poignant and thoughtful and gratitudinal feels I could... Read More

    Tags: wooden lobster boat, maine boat, lobsterboat, maine, just ponderin', the apprenticeshop, wooden boat

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    Think A Little

    … on an oops, a nope, and a joy

    I’ve been spending quite a bit of time in the garden. The combination of preparing and up-keeping and transforming and discovering offers both mental and physical space for processing... Read More

    Tags: secrets to happiness, just ponderin', gardening, maine blogger, lessons in gardening, maine photgrapher, maine

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    Think A Little

    … on april showers’ superpowers

    Yesterday morning, I woke up to a world quenched from gentle overnight rains. This was a nice reprieve from the wind-whipped shards of water that have pummeled us several... Read More

    Tags: musings, maine, just ponderin', spring, midcoast maine, human connection, reconnecting

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    Think A Little

    … on maine correspondences

    Dear friend, It appears as though an annual visitor has returned to our cove on the Landing Road, bringing with him a great deal of excitement. I say, ‘him’... Read More

    Tags: e.b. white, musings, humor, secrets to happiness, just ponderin', it's the little things

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    Laugh A Little

    … on a mental palate cleanser

    According to Wikipedia (a wicked trustable source that I was not allowed to use in grad school (and was not available to me before that because it did not... Read More

    Tags: dogs, just ponderin', hounds, maine coast, musings, maine, humor

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    Laugh A Little

    … on a surprise visit (wahoo!)

    In the early spring of 2019, two ducks stopped by The Inn* for a visit. I was over the moon with excitement. Having long dreamt of having chickens… Side note:... Read More

    Tags: secrets to happiness, being present, ducks, mallards, small things, extraordinary ordinary, everyday life

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    Think A Little

    … on a very special kind of wHeird

    As you may have heard (or remembered (or maybe I thought I told you, but forgot)), we are in the process of building a wooden boat. Okay fine. ‘We‘... Read More

    Tags: musings, just ponderin', wooden boat, boatbuilding, lobster boat, maine boat, lobsterboat

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    Think A Little

    … on lessons from a bird

    Yep. I finally saw her. Experts, far more knowledgeable than I am about all things ‘bird’, suspect she is a ‘her’. I have been told that – though the... Read More

    Tags: musings, maine, secrets to happiness, just ponderin', bird photography, Boothbay Harbor, maine blogger, look up, Steller's Sea Eagle, birding

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    Laugh A Little

    … on an incorrigible toddler

    So. You know how sometimes, when your kids are little, and you have one of those days when they look really good. Like, you have gotten up on time and... Read More

    Tags: musings, humor, photography, just ponderin', maine blogger, maine writer, amaryllis, indoor plants, black thumb

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    Think A Little

    … on some good words, and a bird

    About the bird. I do not know if you have seen the news lately. Like, the birding news. Okay, since the story has actually been on the national broadcast... Read More

    Tags: secrets to happiness, just ponderin', being present, steller's eagle, cozy thoughts, cozy

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    Think A Little

    … on a labor of fear (and a little love)

    You guys, my plant is in labor. No, seriously… look! I am a nervous mess of a plant care-taker right now. This is how it all started: 1.  If... Read More

    Tags: mindfulness, it's the little things, amaryllis, staying present, maine, just ponderin', secrets of happiness

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    Think A Little

    … on purposeful contagioning

    The day after Thanksgiving, every year, is Decorating Day in the Dingle house. On that day, the boxes come down from the barn and magically appear, stacked on the... Read More

    Tags: just ponderin', christmas clean-up, un-decorating day, christmas spirit, kindness, happy new year

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The Inn

Our house in Maine. It is not an inn anymore (hence the “a private residence” on the sign out front) but it was, in the early 1900s.

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