Fall Visits

Amber is my cousin's daughter. She has visited Maine twice this fall with her children, Alexander and Sophia. They are adorable kids and my mother loves to have them visit. The funny part of this last visit was how much the kids liked Dick. He was a kid magnet!

Uncle Donald came with Amber on the last visit also. Mom was very happy to see her brother.

Amber has a big event coming up in December - in fact it's a big event for the whole family!

Birds and Other Critters

Last March, Rocky (or Rocketta) visited. Repeatedly. Night after night. We knew birds could not eat as much as was disappearing - at night. A friend loaned us his wildlife camera. This is what we found out - said racoon visited often. Three times a night. Breakfast, lunch and dinner racoon style. We removed the seed at night. A couple months later a huge racoon became road kill.

In June, this lady was hit around 3 am and for the rest of the night, the police and the local critter remover were busy. This was the same night the local teen graduation-party-in-the-pit occurred. The truck on the back of the flatbead going by in the background has one of the trucks that was hauled off when the police raided the teen's "campsight." They hauled the vehicles off at $200.00 per - if the kid handed over the keys. $200.00 more if they didn't.

We saw all kinds of color this summer. Bluebirds, finches of all kinds.

Another UMO Graduation

University of Maine has to hold graduation ceremonies twice on graduation day because there are so many earning degrees. This was the afternoon ceremony.
The governor was the guest speaker.

It was a Big event last May - Keely graduated from UMO. We're very proud of her! Lots of the family and her friends attended graduation and after that we gathered for pizza. It was a fun day.