My Abode . . . in the Snow, January 15, 2007

The "sunny" photos of the house were taken Saturday. This is Monday.

For other photos of my time in Maine, go to my website. It's much easier for me to upload webpages than do one photo at a time here on the blog.

My Abode #4

On the right is the "garage" but the door is so skinny that only a Model T could've ever fit in the garage. It's pretty certain it wasn't original to the house, but it's still pretty old.

Behind that is the pool (do you see it under its cover back there?). Obviously, it only gets used in July and August most years.

To the left of the pool, the green building is "The Cabana". It's mostly used for bicycle storage.

My Abode #3

This is the side porch. It's the main entrance to the house nowadays. You walk into the kitchen area when you come in this door. When you come in the front door, there's a beautiful entry and the staircase is right there.

My Abode #2

The two second story windows on the left are in my room.

My Abode

This wonderful house was built in the 1890's. The two windows together on the second floor are in my room.

ice fishing auger

This is how you drill those holes in the ice for ice fishing! Only $399 at WalMart. Wowser, that's a lot of money. You gotta really love ice fishing to invest in that. Apparently last winter was so mild that there was no ice fishing last year, but this current cold snap is giving everyone hope that winter will be cold enough and long enough (even if it is late) to freeze the lakes for both ice fishing and snowmobiling.

St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Sunday, January 14, 2007

This morning I went to 10:30 mass at St. Joseph's Catholic Church. On the outside, it's an older New England looking church. On the inside, it's obviously remodeled Vatican II. It's very simple but really nice. I liked it because it was green with copper accents. If you know my kitchen, you know I like that combination.

I didn't recognize the opening song but the offertory hymn was "All Are Welcome" and that made me feel welcome in more ways than one. The congregation really sings here so I joined right in. The choir itself is rather sparse, so it's a good thing the congregation sings so well.

All you Aggies from St. Mary's are going to love this part: At the Our Father, not only do they hold hands, but they cross the aisle and the priest even incorporates that into his introduction to the Our Father.

At the end of mass all visitors and newcomers were invited to stand and identify themselves. I wasn't going to do it, but a man from Massachusetts did and then it wasn't so hard, so I did, too. Following me was a man who introduced his two visiting granddaughters. It was very nice and two people came up and spoke to me after the service.

St. Joseph's Catholic Church #3

Here's a contemporary yet beautiful copper statue of The Holy Family. I really liked it. I assume the green backdrop can be changed for the liturgical colors of the current season. I don't know that, it just looks that way. Of course, I'd be happy with green all the time. ;-)



What you see in front is the choir area. Yes, that's one keyboard, one pew, the cantor stand and one microphone. At our service, there was one keyboard player (who sang into a microphone as well), the cantor (who also played guitar while cantoring), and one choir member. Since she had her own microphone, I had to fight the image of her being a "backup singer" but that's really what it looked like.

Sorry for the blur. I was taking the photo quickly and without flash.

St. Joseph's Catholic Church #2

Copper stations of the cross! They're beautiful. I need to find out the history, I'm guessing a local artist, but I really don't know.