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    Think A Little

    … on a wedding garden

    The Gardens have been in a bit of scramble around The Inn*, getting ready for their wedding debut. On Saturday. Ya. This Saturday. I... Read More

    Tags: The Inn and gardens, roses, musings, wedding garden, gardens, maine, humor, photography, joy, just ponderin', midcoast maine, midcoast maine wedding

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    Laugh A Little

    … on the acting locally thing

    Okay… I’ve given up. Maybe one day every single thing will be unpacked and put away… but strategy right now for the wedding is... Read More

    Tags: musings, maine, photography, joy, midcoast maine, Blessing of the Fleet, Boothbay Harbor, Windjammer

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    Cry A Little

    … on tucking in a house

    It occurred to me yesterday, alone in the house I have mockingly referred to as ‘The Disposable Shack’… After the family packed itself into... Read More

    Tags: musings, photography, joy, moving, prose

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    Laugh A Little

    … on nicknames lived up to

    The Disposable Shack. Disposed. Well, not quite. But now I am thinking it was so unfair to refer to this wonderful home as the... Read More

    Tags: home, musings, everyday life, family, empty nest, joy, secrets to happiness, just ponderin', selling the family home

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    Think A Little

    … on risk and reward

    Yesterday morning I was hanging out in the hotel, getting some work done when I heard from Number One Son Sam, who was practicing... Read More

    Tags: musings, humor, photography, joy, New Orleans, Cafe du Monde, French Quarter

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    Think A Little

    … on dawn

    We live on a ball that weights 13,170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 – thirteen septillion, one hundred seventy sextillion – pounds… and yet floats in space. When it turns just so,... Read More

    Tags: Sunrise in Maine, sunrise, musings, everyday life, maine, photography, joy

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    Cry A Little

    … on a couple of toasts

    Once upon a time Delia Ephron wrote a book called Hanging Up, and then her sister Nora produced it into a movie. It wasn’t a... Read More

    Tags: photography, joy, grief, musings, old yankee man, humor

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    Think A Little

    … on a snowy morning gift

    The Nearly Perfect Husband and I were home in chic and trendy Dunstable last week for a number of reasons, not the least of... Read More

    Tags: joy, moving, southport maine, midcoast maine, winter in maine, musings, maine, old yankee man, humor, photography

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    Think A Little

    … on shades of blue

    The light streams in The world anew In dawning, dulcet Shades of blue. The snowflakes fly As snowflakes do In Maine, if not In... Read More

    Tags: secrets to happiness, southport maine, maine winter, coastal Maine winter, maine, poem, poetry, humor, photography, joy

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    Think A Little

    … on wrestling time (or tilting at windmills)

    So this whole calendar thing. Yes… the calendar thing. I mean, I get the whole ‘day, solar year, and lunar cycle’ thing. And the... Read More

    Tags: New Year 2017, Time, musings, humor, photography, joy, end of 2016, gift of time, gifts of time

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    Think A Little

    … on being present in this morning, this place

    There are several quotes that I have elevated to ‘words to live by’ status over the years. One has been boiled down to three... Read More

    Tags: trump, trump win, joy, Peace, 2016 election, be the change, faith, hillary, hope, inner peace

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    Laugh A Little

    … on a visitor’s return home

    Spike! He’s all adult-y! I knew he’d be back. Last year we had some rather interesting initial indications of his presence (made known in particularly... Read More

    Tags: porcupine, musings, maine, humor, photography, joy

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wHierd

Similar to ‘wHat’, ‘wHy’ and ‘JoHn’. In Dingleville, we tend to pronounce the ‘H’s’ in these words and I don’t know wHy it started, or wHere or by wHom. Sometimes we even add H’s where there are none. It’s wHonderful.

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