Skunk scents make sense
Canoodling is one of nature’s most amusing jokes. It is also one thing that creates chaos and havoc.
Canoodling is one of nature’s most amusing jokes. It is also one thing that creates chaos and havoc.
When I was a child, as the days lengthened in March, my dad would hook the yellow bubble-shaped sleigh that normally carried three little girls on family winter outings to his snowsled and head to the woods behind our house to collect sap from the big maples he had tapped.
So, how are you doing out there? How are you finding ways to cope with distancing or self-isolating? These are strange times, to be sure.
Here are some updates of closures and cancellations due in Mapleton due to the coronavirus pandemic.
During these strange days, you can make use of this surreal “slowed down” time to take in everything around you, things that you might otherwise miss in a world operating at “normal speed.”
I’m pretty sure the guy who came up with the idea of open water fishing season beginning on April 1 each year wasn’t from Aroostook County.
I would ask that you not panic buy at your local stores this week. Just buy what you need. Companies are still making these products and trucks are still delivering these products. The shortage you perceive, is the shortage that is being created by “panic buying.”
While fears of the pandemic are very real, and safety should be taken seriously, it’s going to become important to maintain calm and reason through this period of time.
This brings us nicely to the difference between genealogists and family historians.