Monday, November 30, 2009

Rainy-day fun: sending a package to a friend in Peace Corps. Eventually, she will have some delicious roasted coffee beans, AND a grinder to grind them with. (Don't worry, she has an adapter for the US-style plug.)

Sunday, November 29, 2009

Merrimack River,

Newburyport, MA

I like living in a town where I can walk ten minutes from my house in the morning, and catch the fishing boats heading out to the Atlantic Ocean.

Saturday, November 28, 2009

Newburyport, MA

Today's fun photo: my Christmas card for this year !!!

Friday, November 27, 2009

Newburyport, MA

Today it was really fun to come home after work on a raw rainy day and find no water leaking from the ceiling (note the ugly stain and hole from last week's flood) Fun is relative, I guess....

Thursday, November 26, 2009

Newburyport, MA

This morning, instead of going over the river and through the woods, I found a path that goes through the woods and under the bridge. This is a view of the underside of Route 95 bridge over the Merrimack River.

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Newburyport, MA

Talk about Turkey Day! I don't know what was more fun today- selling plastic bags full of huge bloody turkeys all day, or seeing this amazing turkey- dinner cake in the grocery store.

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Newburyort, MA

These are a few of my favorite neighbors- very quiet. (Like Sarah Palin, I can see this cemetery from my house!) There are graves here from the 1600s. I love to walk here.

Monday, November 23, 2009

Newbury, MA

Tendercrop Farms

I found my little Christmas tree today- at work!

Not too difficult.

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Newburyport, MA

Today was a NO FUN day. I never got a chance to go looking for fun after working all day, because there was a deluge in my apartment! Here is the hole in the ceiling that the plumber made while he was looking for the source of the giant flood that soaked my kitchen. He is coming back tomorrow to tear the entire ceiling down and continue his search. (The house is like 300 years old....) OK there was a little moment of delight when I succeeded in bringing my wet laptop back to life with a hairdryer. That was fun, kinda.

Saturday, November 21, 2009

Newburyport, MA

Maudslay State Park

Another long walk at Maudslay, this time with my friend Bernadette, whose husband Bruce met up with us later, along with their dog Brexton. I think Brexton has his own website.

Friday, November 20, 2009

Tendercrop Farms

Newbury, MA

Here I am having fun today- at work! What's not to like? I can show up looking like this!

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Newburyport, MA

Today I got to help out with an environmental education program for kids, with the Massachusetts Audubon Society. We all learned how Plum Island was formed, how piping plovers survive (or don't...) and what, exactly, sand is. Then we dug into a whole pile of stuff that the tide brought in.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Newburyport, MA

Double fun today. A nice bike ride on a relatively warm, sunny day AND an opportunity to do a little vandalism for the greater good (good grammar, that is.) So many misplaced apostrophes, so little time!

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Newburyport, MA

Fun thing for today: getting a new sink and stove-

for free! I love being a renter.

8 am

The faucet leaked, and the stove couldn't be used because when I turned it on, it smelled like something died in there- a long, long time ago......

3 pm

I can't wait to make cookies.

Monday, November 16, 2009

Tendercrop Farms,

Newbury, MA

This is Buffy the buffalo, one of my colleagues at work.

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Salisbury, MA

Salisbury Beach

State Reservation

The day after the storm.

Saturday, November 14, 2009 Newburyport, MA

Plum Island center. Rough water due to a hurricane that hit the mid-Atlantic Coast yesterday.

Friday, November 13, 2009

Newburyport, MA

Maudslay State Park on the Merrimack River

500+ acres for walking, skiing, thinking....