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    Laugh A Little

    … on thank you pies

    Yesterday I went to the local YMCA (‘The Y’) to walk with my friends. We’ve been alternatively walking and lifting/pushing/complaining (a.k.a., ‘the weight machines’)... Read More

    Tags: musings, humor, thanksgiving, Boothbay Register, just ponderin', thanksgiving pies, boothbay ymca, dolphins swim team, maine thanksgiving

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    Think A Little

    … on the rising sun thing

    That’s my friend Kim, with a sunrise on her face. Hang on… Oh, here we go. This sunrise… I know. It was pretty great.... Read More

    Tags: musings, grief, just ponderin', Sunrise in Maine, death, midcoast maine, secrets of happiness, sunrise, maine blogger, maine photographer

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    Laugh A Little

    … on voting here (and hereafter)

    Today it is raining – sometimes pouring – onto our little peninsula in Maine. It is also voting day! I know, I know… it’s... Read More

    Tags: musings, humor, just ponderin', voting, midcoast maine, maine blogger, election, election 2018

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    Think A Little

    … on small boats in big seas

    I love this picture. A storyteller, an audience. Chirps and bleeps and ringtones absent. Distracting screens and crowds replaced by the quizzical faces of... Read More

    Tags: musings, red sox, secrets to happiness, just ponderin', divided nation, maine blogger, maine photographer, divisiveness, thoughts, philosophy

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    Laugh A Little

    … on plumbing (and the power of money)

    Yep. That is the Nearly Perfect Husband up there. On a lobster (lob-stah) boat. In the midst, and mist, of a very windy and... Read More

    Tags: musings, secrets to happiness, just ponderin', midcoast maine, maine blogger, colonoscopy prep, love and marriage

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    Laugh A Little

    … on flying pigs (and thingamajigs)

    A question I never thought I’d have to answer: “Why did you replace your laptop with a trap, Lisa?”  Well, I will tell you... Read More

    Tags: musings, humor, just ponderin', maine blogger, flying squirrel, flying squirrel maine, pancake mouse

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    Laugh A Little

    … on a feathered bottom

    My friends like animal bums. Okay. Photos of animal bums. And they like them very much. One has even dreamt (or threatened) a coffee table... Read More

    Tags: musings, photography, Boothbay Register, just ponderin', southport maine, Boothbay Harbor, coastal maine, seagull, maine photography, animal bums

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    Think A Little

    … on growing up so fast

    Well, let’s see. It’s been a few weeks since three baby squirrels – well, one very small baby squirrel – showed up… and then brought... Read More

    Tags: musings, photography, just ponderin', secrets of happiness, olympus omd em1 mark II, gray squirrels, wildlife photography, grey squirrels, orphaned squirrels, tic, tac, and janet, nat geo, maine wildlife, wildlife

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    Laugh A Little

    … on boating for dummies

    We’re looking at boats. I’m going to have to ask you to hold your tongue on this one. No, seriously. Because I have learned... Read More

    Tags: musings, humor, just ponderin', southport maine, midcoast maine, Boothbay Harbor, coastal maine, boating, boating in maine, boating language, first boat

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    Laugh A Little

    … on dingle diner, expanded

    This morning, after putting out food and fresh water at the newest incarnation of Dingle Diner (and announcing that breakfast was served), only little... Read More

    Tags: musings, photography, secrets to happiness, just ponderin', southport maine, midcoast maine, Boothbay Harbor, maine photographer, maine photography, wildlife photography, baby grey squirrels, animal babies

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    Laugh A Little

    … on tic, tac, and janet

    The other day, I opened the screen door and placed my foot on the first granite step when I saw movement out of the... Read More

    Tags: musings, Boothbay Register, just ponderin', southport maine, Boothbay Harbor, maine blogger, maine photographer, maine photography, gray squirrels, baby squirrels, nature photography, wildlife photography, squirrel photography

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    Laugh A Little

    … on the totally extraordinary ordinary

    And there it was. A tomato, peeking out from behind a velvety green leaf. Red. Ripe. Ready. And me? Well, I was dancing. Alone... Read More

    Tags: The Inn and gardens, musings, maine, secrets to happiness, Boothbay Register, just ponderin', southport maine, boothbay maine, Southport Island, maine blogger, maine photographer, maine gardener, growing tomatoes in maine

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Bathtub Mary

In Somerville, Massachusetts, where I spent the first five or six years of my life (it seems to be hotly debatable in my family), people often put statues of the Virgin Mary in their front yards. And she is ‘protected’ in a lovely arch of white.. which is often … and I am not kidding… a partially buried cast iron bathtub.

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