July 11, 2004
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A QUIET DAY AT THE LAKE
Someone remarked that this is a rather plain site. That's true, one reason is that in the summer I have to shift down from broadband to 56K modem, which this far out in the woods, is lucky to get up to 28k. I get frustrated with download times and the more frills you add to your site, the slower it gets for everyone accessing it. I'll occasionally add a photo or two if the spirit moves me.
This site is mostly for personal pique and rants, so you are liable to get anything from travelogue to politics.
Here's a little modern micro-economic geography: Downeast Maine is currently in full swing. the roads have about four times as many cars on them as they can hold (at least those south and west of Bar Harbor) and the "summer complaint", of which I'm one, is arriving by the thousands every day. The problem is for Mainers to make it, the roads have to have five or six times as many cars as they can hold and we should be arriving by the ten thousands. Over the fourth, there were only two no vacancy signs in Bar Harbor. The weather has been chilly and foggy, the strawberries, lobsters and blueberries are or will be late and scant. I could actually buy live lobsters at Albertson's in Florida cheaper than I can here right now. As the season only lasts until Labor Day, they have to make their living in less than 90 days if they cater to tourists. Maine is the poorest New England state.
Many years ago we moved up here for our summers from Southern Maine (Kittery & Boothbay) because of how crowded it was getting. Of course we'd like it to be just like it was just before we arrived but now among other idiocies, we have a street sign at the end of our fire road and an assigned street address. The road is impassible except by a SUV but we do have that sign. I guess it's part of the 911 emergency setup.
Anyhow, today was beautiful. Heat on in the morning but it got up to the mid seventies with lots of sun.
Our resident eagle has been harrassing the resident loons (it's chick time for both and eagle chicks eat a lot!). I almost ran over a doe and her fawn when we came back late the other night. thank heavens it wasn't a moose. The Deer will get out of the way, moose won't.
Comments (2)
A quiet day at the lake sounds like heaven. We are already discussing our vacation plans for next year and I would love to drive up the East Coast. I have never been to Maine and would like to see the area. Mid 70's is just my kind of weather!
I understand about your computer troubles. I'm still dealing with dial-up. They were suppose to have the cable internet access ready on June 30, but nothing ever goes as planned and they have pushed the date back to July 15. Because I have some photo's on my site, it takes forever and a day to download!
As for the roads in Yellowstone, they were pretty good. Actually, they were very good. There were a couple of roads closed because they were under construction, but otherwise we had no problems whatsoever. You can still see the damage from the fires but there are a lot of new trees growing up everywhere.
Hope you had a great Monday!
Emily
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