Pietree Orchard, fit for Kings

My article, Pietree

Kings of Horror that is. According to Margaret Morehouse, Pietree Orchard in Sweden, Maine, was "bought by family" from the McSherry's who'd owned it for 73 years. Unfortunatly, Margaret's last name doesn't give a hint to who her sister is: Tabitha King, wife of writer Steven King.

At the crest of a hill on Waterford road, the view at Pietree is amazing. I visited with some friends the other day, and we walked through the orchard--in its first year of a three year organic certification--and made gurgling, horror-type noises from behind the apple laden branches.

Below, Scott Miller, the "apple doc" and farm manager, shows me how to graft a tree.

Tashi with Mila at the EFF

Both these boys have September birthdays.



Earle Family Farm

The Mountain Ear

(photo credit??)

If you can stand waiting for the pdf to download, read my feature in Conway, NH's local "news and lifestyle journal".

Starts on page A6:

Lumberjills of the Fryeburg Fair

Nascar in Scarborough

Timber Tina's boyfriend lives near Scarborough Downs and the Nascar racetrack. Prime location, especially if you love that whine like the contents of a circling beehive floating through the otherwise fall air.

Lumberjill Timber Tina

"Men have said get back to the kitchen, you don't belong here," says Tina Scheer from her boyfriend's backyard in Scarborough, ME. "And I tell you what, it's up to us. The Lumberjacks aren't gonna be the ones..."





"There's this stigma," she added. "You have to be a 300 pound East German named Helga. Some of my lumberjills are just gorgeous. Skinny, tall. People see them and ask, 'where are the contestants?' "

Mini Lumberjack Hunter Russell

"He can throw axes all he wants," says Laurette. "He can use chainsaws and bows, but that boy is never getting on a motorcyle."

Lumberjill Laurette Russell

When Laurette tried the bucksaw for the first time, "the heavens opened and the angels sang." She was hooked. Here she shows off the wood chop.





"My husband wanted me to do something more feminine, so I entered pie baking contests. I'm competitive. I've always been competitive."

Sherman Farm Corn MAiZE

"No official Ufo's have been reported", reads the publicity page for Sherman Farms' ginormous corn field maze in Fryeburg, Maine. So how did this maze come to be? Obviously, whatever extra-terrestrial help the farmers had, they were die-hard UNH sports fans.

Eight bucks for non kids to get in, give yourself plenty of time to march on this otherwise beautiful river bank. At ten acres large, the maze provides plenty of discouraging dead ends, though no place for a pee break (besides in the corn stalks themselves.)

A friend went last year--she said the paths were packed dirt, deadened by herbicide. If you're tuned into things like that, it might be more depressing then it's worth. But if you're not, as they say...."GAME ON!"

the MAiZE itself

Mile End

This neighborhood of Montreal, actually even just this street with its six block radius of hip/arty people of the world (noticeably mostly the Caucasian variety) has a distinctive daily schedule:
walk to Club Social and drink Italian espresso outside on the sidewalk patio
walk to the laundromat and put your clothes in the wash
walk back to Club Social and have another coffee, smoke a Benson and Hedges and maybe discuss music theory with some whacked out but equally well educated person without a proper job
go put the clothes in the dryer
think about lunch. Pierogies or roti?





Really, we were just trying to fit in.

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Bogusha's restaurant and Deli

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Timber Tina calls me up. She talks like the mid-westerner that she is, only she's lived in Maine for ages, and owns Timber Tina's World Champion Lumberjills in Ellsworth, Maine. She tells me she'll be in Scarborough this weekend.

"My boyfriend lives there," she says. "But don't tell anyone. I don't want people knowing I'm taken yet. I always like to look and see what's behind door number 2."

Women Wielding Weapons photos, coming soon.

Porch at Hominy Acres

The best room in the house

Skeeball at OOB

We combined our winnings: over a hundred tickets! Traded them in for two unicorn rings, one paddle ball set, and eight glow in the dark skeletons. Really, quite the evening.

27 Baird Hill Road

Ctr. Conway, NH
(People don't live here for the culture).

Pine Point Beach, Aug 27th

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At Pine Point Beach, Aug 27th

1. Woman with lobster bikini shows us how to tan



2. Man with bucket shows us how to sport cut-offs and boots



3. Quebecers show us that long walks along beaches are definitely romantic

Jezebel

I was warned.
A girl from Queens said she'd wasted loads of time at her computer screen job reading this blog: "Jezebel. Celebrity, sex, fashion. Without airbrushing."

And what, may I add, tugs at your heart strings more than reading young adult novels?
Reading reviews of YA novels that you haven't read in years. Katherine Paterson? I'm crying already.

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