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Down the Road a Piece: Spiders -- Tiny House Guests, Till They Have Babies
As has happened before, I've asked Ken Anderson, the editor of Magic City News if I could use in "Down the Road a Piece" a really interesting piece he e-mailed me. He has agreed for me to share with you this buggy tale of a mother and her many, many -- even more than that -- kiddos...a tale which makes me wonder when being kind is being too kind, or unkind to we who are being kind. But give Ken credit for trying to be kind to his tenants, who failed to reciprocate... not because they were being mean, but just doing what came naturally.
Jul 2, 2009 - 3:07:43 PM
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Down the Road a Piece: Birds of a Feather - Bump Softly and Entertain
The other day while I was working in the shed, I felt a soft bump on the side of my head.
Jun 16, 2009 - 11:45:10 AM
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Down the Road a Piece: Property Lines Are So Much Fun
We've been dreaming of a little getaway camp on a lake, kind of like the one in On Golden Pond.
Jun 8, 2009 - 12:06:37 AM
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Down the Road a Piece: Technology -- Gotcha, and Me
The other day when I was looking at CD photos from the film developing company we have been using, I noticed that the photos were no longer high resolution. The quality had been reduced but the price had not.
Jun 2, 2009 - 11:22:50 AM
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Down the Road a Piece: Memorial Day -- Not Pleasant Memories
I've only known a few veterans, including a couple from World War II and one from the Vietnam conflict. None wanted to talk about their memories.
May 24, 2009 - 12:28:12 PM
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Down the Road a Piece: True Tales That Could Be True
A man, whose name I won't share except that it may rhyme with Ted, Ned, or Red, was stationed in the West while in the Army.
May 20, 2009 - 10:26:42 AM
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Down the Road a Piece: Surprised by Christianity and "The Ministry"
I was raised with religion as a kind of side issue to everyday life -- a Sunday thing.
May 10, 2009 - 3:30:41 PM
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Down the Road a Piece: The Walking Stick and the Pedometer
I learned this past week I can walk a half-mile on a quarter-mile path, a quarter-mile on a half-mile path, and take 1000 steps without even getting up.
May 6, 2009 - 10:47:10 AM
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Down the Road a Piece: How to (or not to) Take Road Trips
Ken Anderson, our publisher, just returned home from a year in North Carolina,1 working on a project there. But now, unlike Lassie because he and his wife drove rather than galloped, they returned home and Ken has already written and published part of his trip.
Apr 27, 2009 - 10:51:41 AM
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Down the Road a Piece: MATC Members Hear of Renewed Redington, Black Nubble Wind Power Plan
Neither the Maine Appalachian Trail Club nor the other major outdoor conservation groups in Maine are opposed to wind power as a "green" way to produce electricity and reduce our dependence on polluting sources of energy, such as oil, MATC Ad Hoc Committee on Wind Power Steve Clark told the nearly 100 MATC members attending the MATC annual meeting last Saturday.
Apr 22, 2009 - 10:56:20 AM
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Down the Road a Piece: Easter, Religious or Secular -- Maybe Both
As I was waiting in my bus Friday to start up from a "stop" sign, I noticed a movement at the edge of the woods across the road.
Apr 12, 2009 - 10:54:22 PM
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Down the Road a Piece: Another Annual MATC Meeting -- Already
They say time flies when you're having fun. I say time flies.
Apr 8, 2009 - 10:46:56 AM
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Down the Road a Piece: Answer to Prayer, Angelic Help, or Coincidence?
The teenager appeared very upset as she waded in to where we were, on the beach at a lake near Bangor.
Apr 1, 2009 - 10:51:34 PM
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Down the Road a Piece: Logging, the Right Way and My Way
I don't what made both of us do it at the same moment, but both of us ran.
Mar 23, 2009 - 10:12:45 AM
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Down the Road a Piece: That Season Missed by the Tourist Brochures
There is a rule about driving in mud season: if you are still moving, don't take your foot off the gas.
Mar 16, 2009 - 12:11:17 PM
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Down the Road a Piece: Losing My Job Moved Me Forward
While driving my bus out of Bar Harbor about 6:45 a.m. Friday after dropping of the Jackson Lab employees, I saw a doe waiting to cross the road. I stopped. She looked both ways and then gingerly stepped onto the pavement -- pavement, not covered with ice and snow -- and crossed to a wooded uphill on the west side of the road.
Mar 8, 2009 - 7:43:51 PM
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Down the Road a Piece: Oh Yes, the Beauty of Winter
As I look out the study window today, the woods, like those in Robert Frost's poem, are dark and green -- above the ground that is. The ground remains white with two to three feet of snow.
Mar 1, 2009 - 7:00:42 PM
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Down the Road a Piece: The Winter Skinny From the National Weather Service
Last week I asked the National Weather Service for some real facts, instead of the "facts" I've remembered, and they didn't respond. After writing last week about snow, snow, snow, cold, cold, cold, and, oh yes, snow and cold, M.C. Walker, a NWS Meteorologist, this week sent some information.
Feb 25, 2009 - 1:11:41 PM
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Down the Road a Piece: Those Winters From the Bad Old Days
Maineiacs love to share tales of those "good old fashioned Maine winters," the ones where the snow was up to the second-story windows and you had to walk to and from school five miles through two feet of snow -- uphill both ways, of course.
Feb 16, 2009 - 2:12:57 PM
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Down the Road a Piece: Hey, Way Up There in the South...
Today we postponed our second Sunday drive to rural Maine, that is the Monroe/Brooks area due to -- of course -- the weather. It was nice and even sunny yesterday, when the weather computer guy said it would be cloudy with snow showers. It even hit 20 degrees yesterday. Today we're at a high of 14 under cloudy skies with snow showers predicted on this day Mr. Weather Guy predicted up to 20 under sunny skies.
Feb 2, 2009 - 10:23:02 AM
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Down the Road a Piece: Ah, Those Pesky Critters
A few days ago while Dolores and I were enjoying morning coffee at our kitchen table, we heard a scratching sound at the front door in the adjoining living room.
Jan 26, 2009 - 10:26:06 AM
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Down the Road a Piece: Subzero Out, Warm Feelings Within
The temperature was -50 in Big Black River Friday night, -41 in Van Buren, -24 in Millinocket, according to the Bangor Daily News, and by our thermometer -18 here on the balmy Maine coast. Today, Sunday, it's snowing like crazy.
Jan 19, 2009 - 11:36:30 AM
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Down the Road a Piece: Oh, Those Older Drivers -- and Those Younger Ones
Lots of cries this week on the news, printed, online, and TV; what shall we do with those older drivers?
Jan 12, 2009 - 12:25:03 PM
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Down the Road a Piece: Hold on There, Just Not so Tightly
The bear cub held on to Jeremy's arm for awhile, and then lit out for the rest of the wilds.
Jan 5, 2009 - 5:49:00 PM
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Down the Road a Piece: More New Trails than New Years to Explore Them
New Years Day calls for a resolution, get out on more new trails. They're popping up all over Maine.
Dec 29, 2008 - 3:54:54 PM
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Down the Road a Piece: My Favorite Christmas is This One
A week ago one of my Downeast Transportation commuter passengers to Jackson Lab from Ellsworth slipped me an envelope. I said, "Thank you," and slipped it into the breast pocket of my old Beaner parka and forgot about it.
Dec 25, 2008 - 12:46:38 PM
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Down the Road a Piece: Back From Over the River and Through the Woods...
"I was happy to be back home," Claudia said of her Thanksgiving trip to visit relatives on Long Island, New York.
Dec 10, 2008 - 11:37:24 AM
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Down the Road a Piece: Lucky? likely Not, But a Good Hunter
"I was lucky," said Jesse Loveland of Ellsworth about having bagged his deer.
Dec 2, 2008 - 9:39:33 PM
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Down the Road a Piece: Talking a Little Turkey... But Mostly Talking Thanks
Thanksgiving has remained my favorite holiday over the many years it has taken for me to become 29.5 on my birthday, which this year is the day following Thanksgiving.
Nov 25, 2008 - 1:51:54 PM
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Down the Road a Piece: Don't Hunt Near the Appalachian Trail
I'm not a deer. If you see me, you'll probably realize that. But I hope you aren't hunting where you will see me, particularly if I'm on the Appalachian Trail.
Nov 19, 2008 - 6:13:51 PM
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Down the Road a Piece: So Relaxed, Since November 5
I awoke relaxed the morning after the election, a strange, deep relaxation like I haven't felt for years -- maybe never before. As I drove my morning bus to Bar Harbor that morning, I sensed a reason for part of my relaxation. Perhaps now we, the nation "we," can get past the tired, old war mode of always being ready to attack or fend off some evil nation or group of people. Nearly all my life we've either been at war or ready to be.
Nov 11, 2008 - 12:06:38 PM
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Down the Road a Piece: I Could Have Shot That Buck
Fall always brings me nostalgia and pleasant memories, particularly hunting woods-wanderings from my past. I don't hunt any more but respect and appreciate the feelings of those who do.
Nov 4, 2008 - 10:53:11 AM
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Down the Road a Piece: Things That Go Bump in the Night -- or Screech, or Not
The things that went 'bump' in the night were an eighth-grader breaking into a second-floor window in our house in Danforth and a dog on the porch.
Oct 27, 2008 - 12:14:57 PM
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Down the Road a Piece: Fall, the Brightly Colored Sad Season
Fall makes me sad. Other people, writers, the TV news, glossy magazines, make fall seem like a wonderland, a place of beauty when the leaves turn. I notice those leaves don't fall as those autumn lovers proclaim their beauty. Their term is "foliage," and it provides a place for you to travel to view them and spend your money as you do. If the leaves fell, there'd be no reason for you to spend your money to go view them. Why would you drive miles from home to see dead brown leaves lying on the road and in the culverts?
Oct 21, 2008 - 12:35:18 PM
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Down the Road a Piece: That Awful Black Stuff Kept "Charlene" Home
I hate that awful black stuff people use to stop weeds from growing.
Oct 16, 2008 - 2:56:55 PM
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Down the Road a Piece: You Can Get Theyah from Theyah
I did yesterday, despite what I wrote two weeks ago that I couldn't.
Oct 7, 2008 - 11:18:20 AM
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Down the Road a Piece: Relatives, the Great White Bird, and the Doe
The doe and her skipper for whom I politely stopped my Island Explorer bus in Bar Harbor Friday morning were nice. The skipper waited to cross the street until Mom Doe gave him the nod. She looked at me too, either saying, "I appreciate your not running over my little one," or "I wonder if that great big bus will eat my little one."
Sep 30, 2008 - 11:39:20 AM
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Down the Road a Piece: You Can't Get Theyah From Theyah
At least I couldn't. If you know how, please let me know. I ended with 'Ellie' Toyota headed down this gosh awful steep, rocky, so-called road with a curve at the bottom around which I couldn't see. And when I was afoot, I ended on a "jeep road," according to the hiking directions in the Maine Appalachian Trail Club's hiking guide and map of the AT where it crosses Marble Brook.
Sep 23, 2008 - 12:15:44 PM
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Down the Road a Piece: Deer Becoming Moose and Other Could-Have-Been-True Tales
Sometimes driving my Island Explorer bus is fun. No, usually it's fun, this week's fun adding a bit more fun to story telling aimed at captive-audience tourists.
Sep 15, 2008 - 11:41:41 AM
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Down the Road a Piece: That Old House Inspires Great Tourist Poetry
My Island Explorer bus two weeks ago became a classroom and entertainment center. Some tourists learned the difference between a pond and a pound, and they in turn shared great home-brewed poetry with me.
Sep 8, 2008 - 11:04:09 AM
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