Author: Astrig
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Are your Peas in Yet?
Go to the grocery store, chat casually at the post office, arrive 5 minutes early to a meeting and before long the conversation always gets to gardens: how fast the snow is receding? how deep the mud is on your boots? have your onions come up yet? We’re all comparing notes and wishing for the…
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My Mundane Life
My life has been Searsport, Maine based for 29 years…with occasional excursions to really wonderful destinations. This year, the furthest I’ve gone is Camden and Rockport to the South and Mount Desert Island to the East. And it still thrills me to walk the beach and the woods everyday. I’m paying attention to what I’m…
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Let’s Start Fresh
Wow…that’s really all that I’ve got! I’ve been thinking about how much I miss writing on our blog for ages but I had no real idea that my last post was almost a year ago. My only excuse is that it was a year like no other and I’ll leave it at that. We’ve lost…
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Busy as Bees
We’ve had a couple of warm days in a row and the daffodils were at their peak this past week. Now the forsythia is fading away, the cherry and apple blossoms have popped and its starting to feel like summer. We’re eating more than our share of fiddlehead ferns and daffodil blossoms (I haven’t been…
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First Draft…
We have been fielding a lot of questions lately about how summer camping at Searsport Shores may be affected by the ongoing COVID-19 viral pandemic. These are unusual times, with best-practices changing frequently as the situation plays out across the country. We want our guests to know that we put the health and safety of…
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I remember when…
Just to be clear, I understand completely that the tragedy I’m about to share, doesn’t compare remotely to the pain of losing a loved one or being shut in with someone abusive for weeks on end…I know that. But I miss you all and wanted to reminisce… Today is the first time in almost 3…
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Learning Curves!
I don’t know about you but I’m learning a lot these days! Being told to open three weeks later than usual seemed like the ticket to rest and relaxation…not so much! My days revolve around checking out the latest numbers every morning, tuning in to Governor Cuomo’s updates, setting the alarm for our Maine CDC…
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The Scent of Optimism is Sweet!
Life in the Covid-Pause…there are still so many unknowns, frustrations and questions. Steve and I are struggling to make the best possible decisions with the information we’ve gleaned from our many conversations with our CDC and HHS departments. We’re assessing our options through a lens of priorities: 1. How can we optimize and protect the…
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Keeping Our Balance
In Searsport, life is pretty much “normal” in our campground centric world. Steve’s outside re-designing the gardens to make the entrance to the garden kitchen more attractive, Mike & Wayne are building picnic tables & benches, Julie & Kent (one of two new couples who will be helping us this summer) are cleaning and organizing…
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Foraging for Comfort
Our Maine life has remained relatively normal. We don’t usually spend much time away from home when Spring clean up is demanding our attention…and the daffodils are coming up right on schedule…just after the pussy willows started feeding our honey bees. Our hearts go out to those who are confronting Covid-19 on their doorstep. The…