You know the saying from your kid-exploring-the-outdoors days? The one that wisely observes that a day coming home with grass stains on your knees is the mark of a good one? Well, here goes the adult version of that same sentiment: coming home from a short weekend away with all your clothes smelling of sweet, [...]
So it wasn’t exactly well-planned on our part. Want reservations for a campsite on one of the busiest late summer weekends of the year? Get those well in advance or get ready to make a lot of hopeful calls to the state parks for last minute openings. We did the latter. Coastal state parks with [...]
Man. Hurricane (or what’s left of it) brushing up along the New England coast late this evening. Happily holed up at home. Raincoat wearing weather reporters doing sappy reports on coastlines. Plenty of bad movies on tv to watch. All’s right with the world.
How lucky to have had the week here in this rented place near the clam flats in Rockland, Maine. Especially with the home temperatures in Boston holding steady in the mid to low 90s. Today here on the coast? Cool and misty in the mid 60s. Yesterday here, Downeast? Warm and bright in the low [...]
What better reason to get the place a bit more put together than anticipation of a visit from family? Great to have mom, along with sister J and her family, up for a visit over these past few days. Escaping their Philadelphia area heatwaves of 1oo degree plus weather to the slightly cooler New England [...]
There’s something wonderfully ominous about the way the early evening just darkened. The strong weather system finally coming through the southern New England area, hopefully to break this humid stretch of days. I’ve been waiting for it for pretty much the whole day, now. A forecast of possible small hail and a tornado warning. How [...]
You know it’s been a pretty good Memorial Day weekend when: The weather’s been perfect, ranging from the mid 60s to mid 70s. Even a welcome short burst of heavy rain Saturday afternoon, causing friend C. and me to duck into stores along Centre St. instead of the planned walk around the Jamaica Pond. Trying [...]
Some pretty hot and humid weather these past few days… thankfully, a break coming with a cooler front coming in later tonight. It’s hard for it not to affect teachers and students in their still-aired classrooms. The lucky ones with fans, or the super fortunate ones (I met one today!) with air conditioning units. One [...]
Feeling pretty lucky to have that back porch these days– with the electric grill primed up for use, the small patio table wiped down (man, all that pollen), and the potted plants–a hanging fuscia basket and a surprisingly healthy honeysuckle plant–rounding out the sense of home extended outdoors. A grilled dinner in the early to [...]
Getting Some More Green Indoors with a Terrarium
This past weekend felt like our final taste of warm, autumn weather for the season. Sunny and temperatures in the upper 50s to lower 60s. All the better reason to start getting some more plants indoors. Luckily for us, we made it to Mahoney’s in Brighton the previous weekend and got what we needed to put [...]