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My version of a friend from Englands favorite meal...beans in tomato sauce, on toasted bread. I love the spicy tomatoes and added them.

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I understand a strength in keeping a journal is
capturing the mundane along with the interesting
and magnificent events in ones life.  Well,  January,
February…I don’t know how long the mundane life
continues in Maine…Keeping a journal this way, is
showing it smack dab in the face as I try to think
of things that happened, sometimes wondering “why”,
what struck me to take the photos I took. 
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Earlier journals, no one else has ever read:  mundane
was recorded as matter of fact. 
I didn’t differentiate between the mundane and
the magnificent…I was quite bland !
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The weather often has been cold with a wicked wind chill.
On the coast of Maine, the temperature usually varies…
so it’s not every night, but some nights are damp and windy. 
In the grand scheme of things, not a big
deal…..
and besides,
I have a handy dandy remote starter so I can start
my car from my living room window, no longer having to
dress warmly, and hazard a fall on my lawn…luckily
the traffic in the winter,  even on the major streets…
three of them ☺. AND few neighbors
are here to watch me scatter cat litter or ice melt
ahead of me like Gretel over icy patches
from the warmer sunny days melting the snow.
As I traipse to my car...two canes with ice pics on them,
and  LLBean ice grippers  on my shoes or boots,
now THAT was  scary. 
Using gasoline at $3.50+/gallon
to start my car in the middle of the night to be sure
it will run the next morning makes me think twice
before hitting the remote button,
(okay, Maxine is rubbing off on me) 
but choices, we have choices,
and I choose to live in Maine in the winter.
Besides, with the remote,
I don’t have to worry about freezing in the driveway,
having the sidewalk plow scatter the icy snow
into my driveway and over me !

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Six Word Journal  Monday January 16, 2012
Cold, Somesville, Everybody Eats, lively conversation
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At the Somesville library, by the mill pond, a heart.

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Six Word Journal Tuesday January 17, 2012
Writers Group, Lunch Pizza Hut, COLD

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Pizza...my favorite food group...any meal, any time of the day..warm or cold. The writers' group went out for pizza and conversation.


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Six Word Journal  Wednesday January 18, 2012
Portraits group: Maggie/Warmer/icy underfoot

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Wednesday's .model, Maggie.

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Six Word Journal Thursday January 19, 2012
Bret’s birthday/he called/Senior Center
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Playing games at the Senior Center. Apples to Apples followed with a large group.

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Six Word Journal  Friday January 20, 2012
Painting cancelled: 4″ snow/tossed riff-raff
(finished card to Stacey for her birthday…
red blueberry field of photo she liked)
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Four inches of snow, no rain...and then the sun. Buddah in my back yard.

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Six Word Journal Saturday January 21, 2012
Lightly snowed all day…1/2 “only.
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Bianca says it all on how to spend a snowy cold Saturday.

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Six Word Journal Sunday January 22, 2012
Ride>photos after snow>blueberry fields

Ventured down a road that I see just feet from the Bangor road to take photos of the blueberry field that can be seen from the road. Sort of thought it to be a private road with one or two home on it, but there were many homes, some old, some new, and this place with chickens sunning themsefves in the window.

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Chickens sunning in the window of the hen house.

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