We regularly attended the New Hampshire Highland Games and Festival at Loon Mountain in Lincoln right up until COVID. They cancelled the festival during the initial outbreak and limited attendance last year. The games were sold out before we bought tickets so we missed it last year. They limited attendance this year but not as […]

I got the vacation and craft show blogs done in good form but haven’t managed a blog since. It was a brutally hot and dry August. I felt that I hadn’t generated enough interesting content to justify a blog. Also I was feeling lazy. We did get out kayaking once but it was hot, we

Wink, Meg and I went to the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen Show at Sunapee Resort again this year. There are vendor tents, Living with Crafts exhibit and demonstration tents and areas. The weather was good for our visit, cloudy in the low eighties but high humidity. The Raku pottery exhibit was completed before we

We went back to the vacation rental on Stillwater Pond that we rented last year. One of the things that we liked was that there was little fishing pressure on the pond. We confirmed that as arrived. We went down to the dock and tossed some artificial baits and caught a couple of bass right

We wanted to go deep sea fishing on the Headhunter with Captain Bob Miller. The only available date was the day after we arrived. And worser, it was an early tide so we needed to leave the dock at five AM. This meant we had to get up at four and leave the airbnb at

We booked the same Airbnb that we vacationed at last year again this year but later in July. We enjoy being on the Cape and taking the opportunity to go whale watching off Provincetown, deep sea fishing, Stillwater Pond fishing, shopping in P’town or Chatham and going to the beach. So this will be a

It has been oppressively hot and humid here. There has been quite a mosquito bloom as well. The greenheads have subsided but the mosquitos have taken over. Mark’s Folly The blog has become somewhat conflated as BOIDS and Mammals tend to mix and take advantage of the Koi Pond. If they are at the Koi

July is Greenhead time. They leave a nasty bite when they get you. Some sort of remediation is necessary. The greenhead traps work well to help control their numbers around the entrance to the house. Mark’s “Folly” The level of effort on Mark’s Folly is winding down. It is holding water. The pump is circulating

So 2022 is half over. Time seems to be flying by. We seem to keep busy and are enjoying our summer. Koi Pond Update So the mud hole a.k.a. ‘Mark’s Folly’, has graduated to a Koi Pond in the blog report out. The birds are loving it and the SQRLs and groundhogs are taking advantage

In spite of the intent, we did not manage to go on a kayak adventure this week. I guess I would blame a combination of weather, responsibilities and the desire to avoid a crowd at the town landing, I am so busy in retirement, I don’t understand how I ever found time to work. Backyard