Day 1 – Friday, July 20th
Got an early start today — left my niece and nephew’s place in New Market, New Hampshire around 5:30 a.m. under beautiful sunny skies. It was about a four-and-a-half-hour drive to camp. As I made my way north, clouds started to build, and about an hour and a half out, the rain started. By the […]
Day 9 – Monday, July 28th
Today was a very productive and much less stressful day. I got a lot done—though none of it was actually at the camp. The day started off on a good note. Just as I was getting into the rowboat to head out and return the trailer, I got a call back from the timber supplier […]
Day 7 – Saturday, July 26th
Today was a busy and productive day. I got up early, as usual, and skipped breakfast since I planned to head south to the Town Recycling Center in Baileyville. On the way, I thought I’d stop at the Old School Family Restaurant in Princeton—but unfortunately, they were closed. So, no good breakfast this morning. Who […]
Day 4 – Wednesday, July 23rd
Last night was a late one — I stayed up putting together the bed frame and mattress for the second bed. Now, with both beds joined, we’ve got a full king-size setup in the cabin. What once felt like a little more spacious now feels a lot more cozy. I must have hit my limit, […]
Update 6/14/25
There are a few things I need to update you on that have occurred over the winter. The first, and biggest happening is that the Waite General store has closed And not just closed to be sold to someone else. Like closed, closed. They sold all the fixtures, shelving, ice coolers, etc.. That is very […]
Update 6/11/25
It has been a long winter thinking about the Maine property and all the things that can be done up there. Get the road in to as close to the cabin as we can get, get a contractor in to see if the cabin is salvageable and, if so, getting the work started. As I […]
Update 10/11/24
Yesterday, while I was talking to the Dirt Guys, I got a call from the folks at Bear Lodge. They were getting back to me, responding to my call to them to let them know I had no water and the porch light, the kitchen light and the TV were not working. They advised that […]
Update 10/10/24
Well, the trip up yesterday was very easy. The flights were good from Greenville. Got up to Bangor and I had reserved a pickup truck for this trip and got up to the desk and all they have were Ford Lightning pickup trucks, which is the electric truck, not the gas truck. So I wasn’t […]
Update 10/5/24
I got a text from the Dirt Work Guys saying they had found some gravel on the property and were using some today. Just to be clear, its not like they found a pile of clean gravel on the property. Apparently there are a lot of gravel pits in the area so it is not […]
Update 10/4/24
So one of the things I had promised to send to the Dirt Work Guys was a map of where I thought the best path to take to the cabin would be based on Google Earth info. I knew, based on our earlier conversation after they walked the property, that they would not be able […]