Maine reading for kids

Lots of great stories here...including a family favorite.

"Lost On A Mountain in Maine," by Donn Fendler as told to Joseph B. Egan.

An inspiring true story. Twelve-year-old Donn Fendler tires of waiting for his father and brothers to join him at the summit of Katahdin, deciding to find his own way back to camp. A fast-moving fog obscures the path. He wanders aimlessly for two weeks, while rescue teams searched for him.

Paul Rezendes - tracker, photographer

OVERVIEW - Artistic, high-quality, large-format images of natural and rural American landscapes, especially of New England and the East. From intimate closeups to spectacular panoramas of national and state parks, wildlife refuges, seashores, forests, mountains, rivers, lakes, marshes, sunrises/sunsets.

The Volts Wagon

...seen on the back of an electricians van this morning.

Rameses II and the 10th Plague

Facts and fiction as old bones are brought into the light.

LUXOR, Egypt — Out of the blinding light of a fall morning here in the Valley of the Kings, American archeologist Kent Weeks led the way down a narrow, stone passageway and into the entrance of a tomb.

Live

An ounce of experience is worth a pound of theory.
New England proverb

Digital Camera Review

We finally made the jump. Here is a great site with a wealth of information and reviews on all the models and brands out there.

Sports Rage Has Yet to Reach the Ovals

The economics of fan hostility has yet to catch Nascar drivers, who still talk in Tobacco Road speak with their red-state base as a nifty camouflage for their Wall Street wealth as living, breathing commodities.

New Yor Times

....and not one mention of Tony Stewart, wow !

How To Steal Wi-Fi

And how to keep the neighbors from stealing yours.
By Paul Boutin

Hooters is Protecting its Assets

"We believe we are defending the integrity of our intellectual property rights"

What are two words that I'd never thought I'd see in an article about Hooters ?

There's nothing like going to see Santa at the Mall on a Tuesday in mid November !!  

Its the truth

I went sky divin',
I went rocky mountain climbin',
I went 2.7 seconds on a bull name Fu Manchu.
And I loved deeper,
And I spoke sweeter,
And I gave forgiveness I've been denying,
And he said someday I hope you get the chance,
To live like you were dyin'.
- Tim McGraw (or some other guy that wrote this for him while he was busy picking out hats)

November 17th - From my desk calendar

If one advances confidently in the directions of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
- Henry Thoreau

The Amazing Race 6

What's most amazing is that they continue to find contestants that we just love to see fail miserably (or is it just me?)

Too bad Boston missed its one shot at being in the show last night when (apparently) nothing worth showing happened at their connecting flights to Iceland. I guess no one from Massport played nice with the producers during filming.

Giving "Point and Shoot" a new meaning

HOUSTON, Texas (Reuters) -- Hunters soon may be able to sit at their computers and blast away at animals on a Texas ranch via the Internet, a prospect that has state wildlife officials up in arms.

Are you kidding me !!?? The only thing more boring than sitting in the woods all day waiting for something to come along (to shoot at) is sitting at a COMPUTER all day looking at the woods waiting for something to come by.

Wait until the anti bear-baiting folks get a hold of this !!

Garrett at soccer...go Dragon Crushers !!  

The Persuaders

Each year, legions of ad people, copywriters, market researchers, pollsters, consultants, and even linguists-most of whom work for one of six giant companies-spend billions of dollars and millions of man-hours trying to determine how to persuade consumers what to buy, whom to trust, and what to think.

"3" One Man. One Sport. One Nation

Barry Pepper stars as Dale...Saturday, December 11 at 9:00pm

Bingo ! Pats win 29-6

Wide receiver-turned-cornerback Troy Brown (80) can't contain his excitment after coming up with an interception in the fourth quarter.
(Globe Staff Photo / Jim Davis)

Pilatus Cam

Weather camera. View from the top of Mount Pilatus.

I can't believe I'm still here to see it snow again !!

What I'm reading...1984, Orwell

...or trying at least. Might be a tough one to get through.

In 1984, Winston Smith lives in London which is part of the country Oceania. The world is divided into three countries that include the entire globe: Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia. Oceania, and both of the others, is a totalitarian society led by Big Brother, which censors everyone’s behavior, even their thoughts.

So that's what happens when the lights go out in Georgia

59-Year-Old Set to Give Birth to Twins

The news was even more shocking considering Harris — the mother of five, grandmother of 14 and great-grandmother of six — had her tubes tied 33 years ago after the birth of her youngest child.

Po Bronson - Writer

For Veterans...past and present.

Thank you.

God Bless America
by Irving Berlin

God bless America,
Land that I love,
Stand beside her and guide her
Through the night with a light from above;
From the mountains, to the prairies,
To the oceans white with foam,
God bless America,
My home, sweet home.
God bless America,
My home, sweet home.

NASCAR lifts ban on liquor sponsorship

Does this mean they'll be doing shots in the Winner's Circle ??

I can see it now..."I tell you what, this Jack Daniels and Coke Chevy team was juiced today and put me in a position to win..."

Pictures in Pictures

This will make your eyes cross...thankfully answers are provided if you can't find them.

Ecco Domani

The Merlot grape has been cultivated in Trentino, Italy since 1870 with exceptional results particularly on the hillside areas near Trento City and in the Vallagarina Valley

Daffy, Bugs, Wyle E, etc etc etc

In case you missed it, Looney Tunes - Golden Collection, Volume Two was just released. This would look wonderful sitting under the tree this Christmas (hint, hint) for the boys of course.

(Rated G, suitable for all ages: cartoon violence)

That'll leave a mark

Largest ever field of impact craters uncovered

Walk this way

It turns out that whether a stroll is taken uphill or down, the cardiovascular system benefits, a finding that researchers predicted yesterday could yield important clues in the nation's increasingly urgent quest to slow twin epidemics of heart disease and obesity. -Stephen Smith, Boston Globe

And it's whispered that soon if we all call the tune
Then the piper will lead us to reason.
And a new day will dawn for those who stand long
And the forests will echo with laughter.
        Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven

10/5/04 - Looking out my window

A November gale blows the branch
And shakes the last leaves free.
It warns us not to fight the journey
And to embrace whatever will be.

Snow on Main Street

First snow in Millinocket...let's hope it doesn't head South any time soon !

2005 Stamps

Stamp a Muppet in 2005

http://www.unhooked.com/sep/writers.htm

"Yet the link between alcoholism and creativity remains unproven. Many of the most notable American writers managed to stay away from the bottle. The list includes Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Mary McCarthy, Upton Sinclair, Emily Dickinson, Henry Thoreau, Zane Gray, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Saul Bellow, William Golding, Robert Frost, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, James Michener, Lillian Hellman, Tom Wolfe and Flannery O'Connor."

Cornhole

I knew I should of started to market/brand this when I saw it being played in a Maine campground in 2001.

I guess folks in the midwest didn't watch Beavis and Butthead before choosing the name of the game.

"Cincinnati is the hotbed of a popular game played with a beanbag filled with corn"

A good book, I'm told...The Romance of Boston Bay

Signed...for a good deed.

Boston, 1944 . 1st. 319 pp. With laid in map of Boston Bay. Come with the author on a journey to the most romantic and historical sea coast in America, that of Boston Bay. In his usual entertaining style, Mr. Snow tells of the countless lighthouses, islands and forts of the area. Facts and unusual stories of the Boston Bay area fill this interesting account.

Frontline breaks down the candidates

On November 2nd, Americans will vote in the first wartime election since Vietnam. Like that earlier war, the war in Iraq has exposed deep divisions in how Americans see this country and its place in the world. It has also exposed major differences between the two candidates, George W. Bush and John F. Kerry.

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