Post by MtnGoat on Aug 20, 2013 22:57:44 GMT -5
The summer is almost over and Off The Mountain News has been neglected - Sorry everyone, it's just that the few 'spare' moments have been spent running to Sanford or Portland Maine or I jump on the ATV and sink it in mud puddles in the Deadwater region (like today).
My Mom had pnuemonia but is holding her own now, first at Mercy Hospital, then a 'holding tank' in Westbrook and last, a nursing home in Portland on a street I've never even heard of....Devonshire
I thought I had been lost on every Portland street there was, but I guess I missed one....Ha!
Deer Mountain Campground has been steady and not much to write about although several visitors have shown up --- like Mike, Dave and Joy, Bob and Carol, Heidi, Melissa, Oliver, John and Kim, Steve and Sally Anne, Tony and Nancy, and just this weekend, I was surprised to see Scott and Chris out on the trail to #28. John and Norma are coming up in September (can't wait) and Gayle has been a 'no-show'..... don't know if she has gone back to Mass or not - I just know that the cribbage board is gathering dust and soot......
Very little trail work got done this summer although Ray and Joan Chaput did come up from Twin Mountain several times and did the Moose Alley Trail and the R & J Chaput Trail. They're an amazing couple and still going strong after 82 years. I did manage to go AWOL a few evenings to weedwhack some trailheads, but other than that, the trails have been neglected by me.
No 'Crazies' in the campground thus far and that's fine with me and Labor Day weekend will bring John and Linda up from Berlin and possibly half of the West Stewartstown Baptist Church, which will be fun!
I have a semi-pet deer that comes out most every time I mow alongside the road and a baby rabbit lives under the cabin.... no coy/wolves in the campground and no bear. A couple of moose have strolled through plus the usual gray jays, loons at Moose Flowage and four otters.
Cloutiers Sand and Gravel has finished out at the dam by hauling load after load of fill and loam and I have started building tentsite # 27 on the river going out to # 28 (remote sites on the flowage and/or Connecticut River.
My oldest Grandson, Cal, heads off to SMVTI in So. Portland for fire school and it's hard to imagine, but he's 18 now....
The North Country Endurance Challenge is being held up here on Saturday, September 7th with over 60 signing up this year.
...And that's about it.... Anyone else??
My Mom had pnuemonia but is holding her own now, first at Mercy Hospital, then a 'holding tank' in Westbrook and last, a nursing home in Portland on a street I've never even heard of....Devonshire
I thought I had been lost on every Portland street there was, but I guess I missed one....Ha!Deer Mountain Campground has been steady and not much to write about although several visitors have shown up --- like Mike, Dave and Joy, Bob and Carol, Heidi, Melissa, Oliver, John and Kim, Steve and Sally Anne, Tony and Nancy, and just this weekend, I was surprised to see Scott and Chris out on the trail to #28. John and Norma are coming up in September (can't wait) and Gayle has been a 'no-show'..... don't know if she has gone back to Mass or not - I just know that the cribbage board is gathering dust and soot......
Very little trail work got done this summer although Ray and Joan Chaput did come up from Twin Mountain several times and did the Moose Alley Trail and the R & J Chaput Trail. They're an amazing couple and still going strong after 82 years. I did manage to go AWOL a few evenings to weedwhack some trailheads, but other than that, the trails have been neglected by me.
No 'Crazies' in the campground thus far and that's fine with me and Labor Day weekend will bring John and Linda up from Berlin and possibly half of the West Stewartstown Baptist Church, which will be fun!
I have a semi-pet deer that comes out most every time I mow alongside the road and a baby rabbit lives under the cabin.... no coy/wolves in the campground and no bear. A couple of moose have strolled through plus the usual gray jays, loons at Moose Flowage and four otters.
Cloutiers Sand and Gravel has finished out at the dam by hauling load after load of fill and loam and I have started building tentsite # 27 on the river going out to # 28 (remote sites on the flowage and/or Connecticut River.
My oldest Grandson, Cal, heads off to SMVTI in So. Portland for fire school and it's hard to imagine, but he's 18 now....
The North Country Endurance Challenge is being held up here on Saturday, September 7th with over 60 signing up this year.
...And that's about it.... Anyone else
??
