Heading for Moose & Squirrel -- Our Maine Vacation Part 1

Get used to seeing the lighthouse pictured above -- there may be a few more posts that feature it in the coming week. It is the Pumpkin Island Lighthouse off the coast of Little Deer Isle, Maine. It is what we will be mostly looking at for the next week. We are once again renting "Moose & Squirrel," the yellow house in the photo above. This is our third year and we'll be there for two separate weeks this year. We arrive on Saturday for our first week, and then have another week set for the end of August.

The bad news is the weather report for the upcoming week is rain and more rain. It doesn't matter. We love to sit on the porch of that old house and read and relax. We'll visit our land in nearby Segdwick, ME, and go out to eat at the Fish Net in Blue Hill. We also might travel up to Acadia National Park and have some popovers at the Jordan Pond House.

We leave tomorrow afternoon, overnight in Conneticutt, and arrive at Moose & Squirrel Saturday afternoon. Shane and I have been looking forward to this week for months.

What's New Buenos Aires?

SC Governor Mark Sanford was recently seen strolling through the airport humming some tune from Evita. The anti-gay rights Republican was so worried about the sanctity (hehe, I almost said titty) of marriage that he claimed it would be ruined by allowing homosexuals to participate. Obviously, he did not realize that boinking another individual outside of his own marriage would do any damage to the institution. I think a better idea to protect the sanctity of marriage would be not to allow anyone to get married that ruined an actual marriage by his or her own infidelity.

My favorite part of this whole story was this line from an article in the Washington Post describing his press conference announcing the little boo boo: “As Sanford digressed about his boyhood adventures on the Appalachian Trail and airplane trips around the world with just $100 in emergency money, about "God's law" and moral absolutes, people standing behind him in the Capitol Rotunda could be seen smirking.” What a dumbass.