Clayton and Priscilla Varney have returned home after spending the Christmas holidays with their son and family, Nicky and Carol Varney and children, in Winterport. The weather cooperated and the drive down and back was uneventful.
Tom and Linda Hawkes, with son Chris and wife, Amanda, arrived in town Monday to spend the day with Riva Hawkes and enjoy an early Christmas dinner. They returned home to Glenburn later in the afternoon.
After spending a week or so with daughter Gail and husband, John Kennett, in Scarborough, Sam Sewall has returned home, after enjoying the holiday season with his children and grandchildren.
This has certainly been a busy time for everyone, with relatives arriving, people departing, activities to attend, snow to plow, animals birds to see. Now we can all sit down and relax, except it is time again to fill the birdfeeders.
I have lots of the pine grosbeaks in my feeders and the other day I spied a snowbird there, too. The woodpeckers certainly clean the peanut butter lard mixture off my tree limbs almost as fast as I put it on. The little birds like it, too, but have to wait for the bigger birds and the squirrels to get their fill. I make sure I put enough out there so they don’t get left out.
For a couple of days after the big snow storm the deer didn’t show up; then when they did, they made short work of the apples and bread there for them. Now they are even venturing onto my partially bare lawn in front of the house as I had put some of their goodies there when it was too icy to walk way out back.
They certainly take their time going from behind the house to the front, watching the road for any car or person before daring to get to where the food is. If they get frightened they make great leaps through the snow until they are safe.
Tom and Linda Hawkes, with son Chris and wife, Amanda, arrived in town Monday to spend the day with Riva Hawkes and enjoy an early Christmas dinner. They returned home to Glenburn later in the afternoon.
After spending a week or so with daughter Gail and husband, John Kennett, in Scarborough, Sam Sewall has returned home, after enjoying the holiday season with his children and grandchildren.
This has certainly been a busy time for everyone, with relatives arriving, people departing, activities to attend, snow to plow, animals birds to see. Now we can all sit down and relax, except it is time again to fill the birdfeeders.
I have lots of the pine grosbeaks in my feeders and the other day I spied a snowbird there, too. The woodpeckers certainly clean the peanut butter lard mixture off my tree limbs almost as fast as I put it on. The little birds like it, too, but have to wait for the bigger birds and the squirrels to get their fill. I make sure I put enough out there so they don’t get left out.
For a couple of days after the big snow storm the deer didn’t show up; then when they did, they made short work of the apples and bread there for them. Now they are even venturing onto my partially bare lawn in front of the house as I had put some of their goodies there when it was too icy to walk way out back.
They certainly take their time going from behind the house to the front, watching the road for any car or person before daring to get to where the food is. If they get frightened they make great leaps through the snow until they are safe.
