Arlene was over to walk around Cutler Pond one day last week, I think Wednesday. We saw two ospreys soaring over the pond. The next day when I walked I saw one osprey in a dead tree near the far end of the pond. I was looking for a kingfisher that I had heard in …
Daily Archives: October 4, 2007
Hike up Pleasant Mountain
On Saturday we went for a hike on the other side of Bridgton. There’s a lot of construction going on in Bridgton this year. Everyone we spoke with was excited about the new Hannaford’s supermarket that opened a year and a half ago, and the big Hancock Lumber yard that opened was welcome, but both …
Cumberland Fair Truck Exhibit
Here are some trucks that were on display at the fair. First, this lumber delivery truck from Chebeague Island. Chebeague Island is in Casco Bay (no relative of the town of Casco) off Portland. It was in the news a few years ago because its residents convinced Nabisco to continue making Pilot Crackers, something like …
Cumberland County Fair
I took a vacation day Friday and we spent a three day weekend in Maine. There was a little unfinished business with the roof, or at least with the skylights; the finish carpentry, the trim around the bottom of the skylights, wasn’t done. Porky was going to come in the morning to do that, and …