What are you passionate about?

That question has been on my mind this past week, but it's a bit of a round-about to get to why...Early ;ast week, I was reading the Bangor Daily News, as I do each morning and was attracted to an article under the heading "HOMESTEAD." It was about a "classic Maine farmhouse" in Winterport which, …

Late winter? Later spring? Not really!

I know everyone here abouts -- or so it seems -- has been on the horn to Old Man Winter and Ma Nature about the apparent slow departure of said old man. Like this it is unusual here to have snow, cold, etc. this time of year. While patience may run thin, especially for farmers …

It’s been a slow week at the sign of the Fussing Duck…

Necessity almost always wins. I had planned to talk with my knee surgeon about getting on snow shoes again but not having made my appointment, having missed the scheduled one -- and having broken through the snow multiple times while doing chores on Friday -- made the donning of my big feet pretty much a …