Monday, 10:15 am: Life in the North Country is back on track. Outdoor chores and mosquitoes are on tap for today and for the foreseeable future. Ruth’s garden is planted, and the onions are popping their leaves out of the ground. The tomatoes are well-established, since they were purchased as already sizable potted plants from Home Depot in Bangor.

The Garden Mouser

As I discovered, MaineToday.com has redesigned its blog pages and uploading blogs has changed. If I am successful you, the reader, will see something today; if not, maybe a blank page. Not necessarily being a technological dullard, I will need to work though the glitches, mainly in my brain. What a relief, all those years of higher education weren’t wasted.

Tomorrow is election day in Grand Isle for local town positions. Being an uninformed voter [hmmm], I am not sure who is running and for what offices. It should be interesting since we only found out about it on Saturday. Democracy in action – I guess. Das ist mir Schnuppe [Berliner Dialekt].

Current values from our wireless Davis Vantage-Pro weather station:

Temperature: 51.2^o [F.]

Barometer: 29.971 & steady

Humidity: 54%

Wind: E at 4 mph light and variable

Visibility: > 3 miles

Skies: ca. 90% overcast

Since midnight:

Low temperature: 40.2^o [F.] at 3:51 am

High wind: 16 mph at 7:08 am