We played Settlers of Catan with Charley and Nicole on Saturday night. Maybe Arlene and I played it one New Years Eve with Sue, Richard, and Katherine, but we’re not sure. I do like that game. There’s a lot of thinking and a lot of social interaction, and it doesn’t take too long go get …
Monthly Archives: July 2006
More on Ployes
When I mentioned the mix for the northern Maine crepes known as ployes, I didn’t realize that there was a web site for them. There’s your link. I used up the last of the mix this morning, mixing a cup and a quarter of it with most of a cup of milk, an egg, and …
Yet more on raspberries
One other interesting thing about raspberries we learned at Hedgehog Hill Farm last weekend is that, like apples, they don’t germinate true to type. If you want cultivated raspberries, you need to buy a plant that’s grafted from the variety you’re trying to grow. Wild raspberry seeds have a thick husk that keeps them from …
No ID
We tried again to find the route from Maine Turnpike exit 47 up to River Road in Windham. We took an early turn off the Westbrook Arterial and a left at the end. It wasn’t where we had wanted to be. A couple of right turns eventually got us into a commercial area. I stopped …
More on raspberries
I finally cooked up my raspberries into syrup last night. I had maybe a cup and a half of wild raspberries, a quarter or half a cup of water, and part of a scoop of sugar (maybe a quarter cup, maybe more.) And maybe one tiny spider crawling around to get out of the hot …
Meet the Parents
…we being the parents, that is, those to be met. We went to Charley’s yesterday evening to meet his girlfriend Nicole. We walked through Teele Square to Sabur for dinner. If you click on that link, and until they change the web site, you can see a picture of the table we were sitting at …
Cherchez les Framboises
Hm, when I googled “framboise” to check my vocabulary I got several references to beers and wines made from raspberries. I was just thinking of raspberries. We’ve got ’em, and they’re in season now. More or less in line with our driveway is an area that was a logging road when our property was logged …
Hedgehog Hill Farm
The point of going through Buckfield was to go to a talk about growing raspberries, blueberries, grapes, and other small fruit at Hedgehog Hill Farm in Sumner, the next town north. Arlene had checked out their web site (and directions to get there!) It turns out to be a small but influential organic farm, run …
Hart’s Pizza
Our route from Narramissic to Hedgehog Hill Farm went through Buckfield, which we remembered from having gone to a juggling and variety show a couple of years ago. I was thinking of the road there as being narrow, windy, and long, through a forest to the middle of nowhere. Either I’ve gotten more accustomed to …
Narramissic event
In South Bridgton there’s a place called Narramissic (that’s an Abenaki word that more or less means “hard to find”, and it is) Historic Farm. I’ve been under the impression that there’s something going on there most weekends, though Arlene thinks if that were the case we would have gone there before. There was something …