Saturday, November 17, 2012

Go Mount Blue!

Mount Blue Cougars, our local high school Football team, is in the playoffs tonight. Very exciting around town all week long. This sign has been sitting at the corner of Main Street and Broadway for a couple of days now. It's all anybody can talk about. The game, that is, not the sign.
I turned on the local radio station around 8:55 tonight and caught the last four minutes of the game. Oh my goodness! I'm not sure I could have handled listening to the whole game. The score was 44 to 35 in favor of Mount Blue. Then Marshwood made a touchdown and got the extra point. Now it was 44 to 42. Too close! Mount Blue had the ball and made a drive down the field but Marshwood stopped them on their own seven. With under two minutes left to play Marshwood fumbled and Mount Blue recovered! You should have heard the announcers on the radio. They went berserk! It was a very long two minutes as Mount Blue took a knee four times in a row to win the state championship.

Congratulations, Mount Blue cougars!

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Frankenstorm Update

So far so good here in Farmington. It's been raining, but just a misty kind of rain. High winds, but no fallen trees that I'm aware of. Don't know if the powerful part of the storm skirted us, hasn't arrived yet, or just petered out. Or maybe I'm just oblivious. But so far so good. This picture is sunrise Sunday. The color of the sky was incredible and, in fact, is what woke me up. This photo really doesn't capture the intensity of the red and orange. It was a beautiful glow inside my apartment. I think it was the "red sky at morning" part of that saying "red sky at night, sailor's delight; red sky at morning, sailors take warning." To all my friends and family who are in the path of the storm, take care!