http://www.centralmaine.com/blogs/farmington/ en-us jeff9493@earthlink.net 2009-01-04T22:17:42-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.centralmaine.com/blogs/farmington/037870.html I've written an earlier blog mainly about the four-footed visitors to the farmhouse. This time of year, the opportunities abound to observe the two-footed kind.... 37870@http://www.centralmaine.com/blogs/farmington/ Chesterville 2009-01-04T22:17:42-05:00 http://www.centralmaine.com/blogs/farmington/037464.html 37464@http://www.centralmaine.com/blogs/farmington/ Chesterville 2008-12-22T12:11:15-05:00 http://www.centralmaine.com/blogs/farmington/036774.html A Time to Talk When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a meaning walk, I don't stand still... 36774@http://www.centralmaine.com/blogs/farmington/ Chesterville 2008-12-14T13:02:11-05:00 http://www.centralmaine.com/blogs/farmington/036772.html Thwack! The ax bites a little deeper into the trunk of the waste tree cut down near the old barn this past September. It grew... 36772@http://www.centralmaine.com/blogs/farmington/ Chesterville 2008-12-09T10:39:43-05:00 http://www.centralmaine.com/blogs/farmington/036460.html It's that time of year again: snow is falling, the Thanksgiving bird is on its way to becoming soup, and cars pass you by, topped... 36460@http://www.centralmaine.com/blogs/farmington/ Chesterville 2008-11-30T21:45:34-05:00 http://www.centralmaine.com/blogs/farmington/036459.html The first real coating of snow that lasted a few days fell in Chesterville over this Thanksgiving weekend. The old farmhouse, even with its K1... 36459@http://www.centralmaine.com/blogs/farmington/ Chesterville 2008-11-30T21:42:13-05:00 http://www.centralmaine.com/blogs/farmington/036344.html Thanksgiving is upon us. Another year has gone by and the holiday season is here. Catalogs and fliers stuff the mailbox and immediately fill the... 36344@http://www.centralmaine.com/blogs/farmington/ Chesterville 2008-11-26T15:26:27-05:00 http://www.centralmaine.com/blogs/farmington/036169.html 36169@http://www.centralmaine.com/blogs/farmington/ Chesterville 2008-11-23T22:24:39-05:00 http://www.centralmaine.com/blogs/farmington/035981.html When my wife and I first moved to the farmhouse in Chesterville, winter was just setting in and the snow was beginning to fly. We... 35981@http://www.centralmaine.com/blogs/farmington/ Chesterville 2008-11-19T05:57:34-05:00 http://www.centralmaine.com/blogs/farmington/035922.html Growing up on a farm and then moving to an old farm house in Maine keeps you thinking in farmers' terms. "Milking the cats" is... 35922@http://www.centralmaine.com/blogs/farmington/ Chesterville 2008-11-18T06:19:28-05:00 http://www.centralmaine.com/blogs/farmington/035133.html I have a confession to make: sometimes I think I'm living through a bad remake of Green Acres. Why? Mainly because of my wife.... 35133@http://www.centralmaine.com/blogs/farmington/ Chesterville 2008-11-03T07:07:22-05:00 http://www.centralmaine.com/blogs/farmington/035132.html The sharp crack of the back-to-back rifle shots just after sunrise near the house nearly made me drop my first cup of coffee. I knew... 35132@http://www.centralmaine.com/blogs/farmington/ Chesterville 2008-11-03T07:00:12-05:00 http://www.centralmaine.com/blogs/farmington/034739.html This blog is the second part of my response to Zacharias Tims' original comment of an earlier blog of mine (see The Pantry, comment by... 34739@http://www.centralmaine.com/blogs/farmington/ Chesterville 2008-10-25T14:54:23-05:00 http://www.centralmaine.com/blogs/farmington/034605.html Gathering Leaves Spades take up leaves No better than spoons, And bags full of leaves Are light as balloons.... 34605@http://www.centralmaine.com/blogs/farmington/ Chesterville 2008-10-22T21:25:10-05:00 http://www.centralmaine.com/blogs/farmington/034503.html I recently received an interesting (but misguided) commentary to one of my previous blogs (The Pantry comment by Zacharias Tims) that got me thinking about... 34503@http://www.centralmaine.com/blogs/farmington/ Chesterville 2008-10-21T09:47:50-05:00