Tuesday, 7:30 am: July is here and the wood is stacked, so life must be good. The lawn is growing so quickly that I am on a three to four day cutting cycle. Most of the brush clearing is done for this summer; although a few places need to be tidied up. I have a set of really funky old work clothes set aside, that reek of insect repellent, for this work. The bugs stay away, more or less. I have to take them off in the mud room before I can come inside the house, but they are great for dirty work.

Ruth is downstairs taking care of our correspondence. She is a whiz with the calculator, sorting out bills and balancing our check book. Someone has got to do it, and her skills far out pace my mathematical skills, not to mention my usual lack of interest in such things. She needs to be awarded the Super Wife Medal with "V" device for valor.

Tomorrow we drive down to Bangor and Augusta for an overnight stay. There are no appointments or time constraints on this trip, so we can sleep late and stop and do some sightseeing along the way. I have to get used to driving in traffic again. Even driving on I-95, the traffic never really picks up until just north of Bangor. It is, after all, the Other Maine, or are we in the Other Maine? I can't remember.

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

Temperature: 64.4 [F.]

Barometer: 29.875 & steady

Humidity: 95%

Wind: Calm

Visibility: ca. 3 miles

Skies: Haze

Precipitation: None

Since midnight:

Low temperature: 58.1 [F.] at 3:30 am

High wind: 2 mph at 7:32 am