Let’s Get a Christmas Tree
Spent the afternoon outside at a tree farm, looking for the perfect trees. Since it was 20 degrees and too cold for any sensible person to be outside very long, we worked fast to get things done.
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Thanksgiving Gingerbread Workers
Diligent workers from Maine and New Jersey recently descended on Portland to churn out some of the best gingerbread men ever created.
What’s a Rutger?
Who says they don’t know college football in the Garden State? The Louisville - Rutgers game was one of the most electric stadium atmospheres I’ve ever been in, and the Scarlet Knights settled down after a tough first quarter and roared back for a win that vaults them into the top ten.
Think Vanderbilt football futility, multiply that feeling by ten, and you get an idea of where Rutgers football has been and how huge this win was. Outstanding!
Dave is still weepy.
Bob in Portland
Chris came up for a vist recently, and we had a great time. While he was here, we introduced him to a few of Maine’s tastiest (and freshest) creatures. Chris definitely came out on top.
Seattle: Waaaaay Across the Country
Seattle. Land of coffee, salmon and geeky billionaire techies. Also a great place to stuff our faces, which we did on every occasion. All in all, a really cool city. Go there now.
Or just look at these pics and maybe you’ll feel like you’ve been there. Yeah, that’s it.
Boothbay Harbor & Monhegan Island
Took a boat back in time yesterday to Monhegan Island, a speck of rock 11 miles out in the Atlantic. It’s a windswept, quiet, and undeveloped home to just 60 year-round residents. Just the place to spend an afternoon hiking, picnicking and exploring with Charlie.
“It’s What’s for Dinner.” Or not.
Our buddy from Italy, Steven Chiodini, wrote to share this 1991 “gem” from the Wall Street Journal with us. (Thanks, Steven. Maybe.) “The Cantonese people of south China are legendary for eating anything that moves — and some things that are still moving,” according to the feature, which went on to profile kitchen utensil salesman and restaurateur Zhang Guoxun, who opened what was believed at the time to be “China’s first restaurant dedicated to serving rat.” The feature easily offers our Quote of the Month: “‘I was always eating out, but I got bored with the animals that restaurants offered,’ Mr. Zhang says during an interview over a plate of Black Bean Rat. ‘I wanted to open a restaurant with an affordable exotic animal. Then I was walking home one night and a rat ran across in front of me and gave me this idea.’”
That said, what’s A) the most exotic meal you’ve ever had (mine involved an eyeball), and B) the worst meal you’ve ever eaten? (Hopefully they’re mutually exclusive in this case.) Submit the best answer, and there may just be a juicy rat in it for you.
Fun on the Farm
Spent the day on the farm, planting some greens and veggies that will show up at Cinque Terre in the months ahead. Thom found out why they call it a farmer’s tan.
Merry Christmas
Our first Portland Christmas: unicyclers, crazy surfers, and Charlie’s new tongue.