Mother’s Day today… Lynn’s up in the quilt room sewing while I gather up our stuff and prepare to pack the van for our trek back down south.  Weekends go so damn quick up here.  We came up Thursday night after work, getting up here about 10:30pm (ASIDE:- I’m sitting at the dining area table [...]

If you’ve ever explored the Ballot Box web site (I’m guessing that’s how you got here) then you’ve probably come across the WEBCAM page that shows a new image from the webcam mounted in the picture window, aiming out over the front lawn and the parking area of the driveway.  As long as there’s power [...]

This past weekend was Boys Weekend at the BallotBox.  My friend and work colleague Robert (who owns a chainsaw and knows how to use it) had offered a number of months ago to help me fell a not-long-for-this-world tree that was at the edge of the treeline out back and tall enough to possibly hit [...]

We’re hitting the holiday season now, with Thanksgiving next weekend and then the long stretch for the Christmas/New Year’s season.  It gets tough this time of year to be able to take up an entire weekend to head north to th Ballot Box.  We were up at the house last weekend but the next chance [...]

Back in March of this year my “introductory offer” for expanded cable TV service in Maine that included the New England Sports Network channel (NESN, home of the Red Sox) expired, and what was costing me about $18 per month extra was about to jump to $65 per month extra, so I cancelled the expanded service and [...]