Category Archives: Weather and Seasons

Pause

Posted on March 5, 2014 by Julie-Ann Baumer

It was a chilly Mardi Gras in New Orleans yesterday, but it didn’t stop revelers from throwing plastic beads all over the place.  I won’t pretend to understand.  The closest I ever got to anything like this annual celebration was … Continue reading →

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The Old Heave Ho

Posted on February 3, 2014 by Julie-Ann Baumer

What is it about “Groundhog Day” that is most offensive? Is it that the garden-destroying rodent is elevated to Zeus-like status for poking his ugly head out of a burrow on the second day of February? Or is it that … Continue reading →

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The Bleak Hours

Posted on January 22, 2014 by Julie-Ann Baumer

I swapped a few e-mails with Jaxon yesterday; he’s in jam where he lives.  He was the recipient of an outrageous “condominium assessment.”  Having lived in a condominium for almost fifteen years, I could understand his frustration.  My condominium owner’s … Continue reading →

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The Thirteenth Day of Christmas

Posted on January 6, 2014 by Julie-Ann Baumer

In the days since Christmas, I’ve made a conscious decision to enjoy the decorations and lights of the season here at my house.  Every day at 4:00 p.m. I’ve plugged in the “candles” in the windows; this year, I used … Continue reading →

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The Regal

Posted on January 1, 2014 by Julie-Ann Baumer

Here in Lisbon Falls, we have a few convenience stores.  Route 196 is a busy road that runs from Lewiston to Brunswick (or Brunswick to Lewiston) and as of this writing, there are at least three possible places a happy … Continue reading →

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A Gentleman’s Christmas

Posted on December 23, 2013 by Julie-Ann Baumer

(Gratefully, my little corner of northern New England was spared from a damaging ice storm this weekend.  While there was the usual weather puppetry and foreboding, the failure of the ice storm to deliver a sharp, disabling punch to the … Continue reading →

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I’ll Have an Old Fashioned, Please

Posted on December 18, 2013 by Julie-Ann Baumer

I’ll have an old-fashioned winter, that is! Yesterday, my brother presented some historical data about winters gone by and the possibility that this winter might be an “old timey” winter. Click on the picture to read an older blog post … Continue reading →

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Floating Boxes

Posted on November 4, 2013 by Julie-Ann Baumer

A news story broke a few days ago.  There’s a barge at a Cianbro-owned wharf in Casco Bay that reporters have discovered belongs to Google.  Made of shipping containers, its purpose and ultimate destination are unknown.  Google has not responded … Continue reading →

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I’m Not a Halloween Person

Posted on October 31, 2013 by Julie-Ann Baumer

This is the best I could come up with today. I’m more of an “All Saints Day” kind of person.

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The Coming Darkness

Posted on October 30, 2013 by Julie-Ann Baumer

My alarm went off at the usual time this morning.  I hit “snooze” over and over.  It wasn’t that it was cold outside my warm covers or that I dreaded the day.   It was because I had been tossing and … Continue reading →

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