Memorial Day Weekend!

Hello All

The Thursday before Memorial Day, Gene and I joined Mark and Lisa for a quick bite to eat at Geaghan's Roundhouse (yummmm boneless buffalo wings in Reserve sauce and a pint of beer) and then Ray LaMontagne and Brandi Carlile  on the Bangor Waterfront.  It was a cloudy sort of drizzly day but it felt so nice to be out and about and enjoying such great music just 10 miles down the street from Old Mill Road.




As you can see, a good time was had by all.  God bless Auntie Denise and Uncle Ernie who came over to the house to watch the boys.  Memorial Day in Maine....I was wishing I had my mittens.  Glad I had the layers, though.






And of course the photos of these boys!  We have had some warm days and the backyard is greening up.  The garden is still waiting to be planted - we are almost ready, though.  Because it's been sort of a cool, damp spring I think it's best to wait a while before putting the seeds in the ground.

We spent the weekend down at camp with Mark and Lisa.  They arrived later on Saturday - had spent Friday evening down in Boston watching the Bruins.  The Bruins seem to be on their way to win the Stanley Cup!  So exciting that they keep winning but it's making Lisa and Mark a bit road-weary.  They are traveling to Boston sometimes two times a week (and continuing to get to work every day)  Such a cool experience, though.  Lisa has great photos on Facebook of the experience.

Mr. Eli a.k.a. Baby E at 6 months

And Noah had been waiting for THIS moment for months:  geting on the John Deer tractor and mowing the lawn at camp.  Really doesn't get much better than this for my boy.  

 

On Memorial Day, Noah and I got coffee and a cookie (coffee for me, cookie for him) and went to Searsport for the Memorial Day parade.  It was so sweet, so small coastal Maine-ish.  The old fire trucks came out from Stockton Springs, Prospect and Searsport.  The veterans walked together while their families took photos from the side of the road.  The high school marching band played patriotic songs.

And then yes, a train ride.  Noah was so psyched.  We rode on the Old Belfast & Moosehead railway down the rails to Burnham Station (in other words, down the track to the middle of the woods then back to Belfast again) We went over a few little bridges and it was just so lovely to ride with the windows open along the river and through the woods.

The conductor even punched Noah's ticket both ways.  Noah took the ticket to Montessori the next day so he could share the story.  This boy loves anything with an engine.....lawn mowers and trains, chain saws and weed whackers.

Thank you to Lisa for the great photos!