*TWO* Strawberry Seasons!!

Have I mentioned that the local strawberry crop is producing at the moment? The strawberries are lovely in size, shape, color and oh, so, sweet!! We had our traditional May local strawberry season at the House on the Creek and are loving the season here, too. Though this day has dawned into light fog and mist, it is suppose to become partly sunny and warm later. We are hoping to make strawberry sorbet later today with the wonderful machine given us by Baby Bear and Boo Boo: the strawberries have been prepared, the lemons squeezed, the container is in the freezer; all we need to do is mix and chill and put it into the machine.

Dinner last night was stuffed green peppers - very yummy and followed with a fresh apple tart from Little Notch Bakery in Southwest (you really need to visit their website: I wonder how long it has been in that state! :-) . Today will be a chicken dish of some type, with some fresh broccoli. (I love broccoli!)


I cannot decide if I like the cove best at low tide, at high tide, or in between. At low tide I can see the features of the bottom of the cove - mostly mud, rocks and sea weed, and the gulls visit then, too. At high tide I experience the fullness of the cove and feel the spirit of the water more strongly. In between, I taste the transient nature of this world and, in a peaceful calm manner, can accept the ongoing change therein.

We continue to watch the World Cup matches and are sometimes watching the Canadian station for their local news programs, too, especially since the G8 and G20 have been meeting there recently. We think that local advertising, both on the Canadian station and on the Maine stations (though particularly on the Canadian station), is much gentler than we experience in United States national ad campaigns, the latter of which tend to be, in our experience, rather in-your-face. Perhaps local advertising at the House on the Creek is also gentler, but our memory is that it tends to mimic more the US national advertisements. The Canadian ads are just softer in some way. And there is a wonderful ad for the Maine Lottery that has a "La La" song singing in our heads all days: far more upbeat than the tired fairy princess used sometimes in Virginia Lottery advertising who constantly seems to be confronting problems. Perhaps our country would be kinder and gentler on a whole if we turned the advertising back a notch or ten or twelve.


No idea on plans for today. We may open a local bank account, and the wrapping did not happen yesterday, so we will have to try to get that done sometime. I also want to stop by the library in Southwest sometime to see if there is a book club that is open to summer members.

News articles found online from the House on the Creek are that it may take weeks to completely clean all the debris from last Thursday's storm, and that there are people there (in an area with temperatures and humidity levels have both run in the 90's each day of late) still without power. Not a good situation.