Mother's finally back on the power grid, thanks to Central Maine Power Company and their intrepid crew of bushwackers. Lord knows how they managed to get past the troll that lurks under the winding stone bridge but maybe they brought some donuts along.

The stone bridge by the way is a relic from the 1800's where it was one of three boulder constructed dams on the stream outlet of the ice pond up in the woods. It's wider than the other two, and there was a small mill at the third dam, just above the cove where the boat house is now. The mill probably only operated in the spring for a few weeks.

Mother still isn't re-connected to the phone company but they'll probably show up in a couple of days now that there are some new poles to string lines on.

Nice and sunny, up in the 70's now!

Sure, how about some Irish coffee for starting up a new day!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble