From Marine Mammals of Maine: “Each year we typically admit 1-3 pups in April before pup season really kicks off in May. This year, we admitted 4 before May 1
st! While this is not too unusual, it does mean we have already gone through some of our pup supplies and have had to update our wish list with some new urgent needs!”
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Getting Through a Rough Patch
Randy Stearns writes on the LBB:
As many of you know and many more may not be aware, our friend Peter Thomas has had a rough winter and spring. After many surgeries and setbacks we are hoping he is on the mend.
This Week in Lincolnville: Bearing Down on Eighty
. . . counting, counting, counting Mon, 05/03/2021 - 11:30am
Steve Hardy boning the pork shoulders that will become delicious pulled pork.
Photos by Char Dickens
A Mimosa helped with the baked beans.
A couple of old-timers waiting for the ribs to be done.
. . .5, 6, 7 . . .
Counting starts early these days, first thing, after letting Fritz out to pee. Back to the bedroom where the exercise stuff is set up. Don’t be thinking Peloton or free weights; more like a rolled-up towel, a rubber beach ball, a leather belt, a green stretch strap. It’s the last week of my physical therapy program before knee surgery.
You can’t dig it up as it sends runners everywhere underground, two to eighteen inches deep, under rocks, amongst tree and shrub roots, tangled in your peony tubers and strangling any other perennials it encounters.
Rumor has it that gardeners have sold their houses and moved to get away from it. I’ve chosen to live with it. Every spring as it begins its annual migration through the garden I gird myself for battle and tackle the Front, the line beyond which I won’t let it go. Looking at my house from the road, the garden in front of the sun room, full of tulips in the spring, is goutweed-free. The bed to the left belongs to Him, Mr. Goutweed. I’ll never get him out of there.
I remember as if it were yesterday, thinking that 28 was impossibly old. Today I sleep with my cane nearby, handy for those middle-of-the-night trips to the bathroom. What just happened? Well, for starters, fifty years beyond that dreadful age of 28.
LINCOLNVILLE In partnership with the Northeast Mobile Health Services, the Town of Lincolnville is co-sponsoring a COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic for those 18 years of age or older Saturday, April 10 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Lincolnville Community Building located at 18 Searsmont Road (State Route 173).
As the supply is limited pre-registration is required.
Vaccinations will be offered free of charge and have no out of pocket expense to any individual. Health insurance information will be requested but no copay or deductible will be necessary. For those without health insurance all expenses are being incurred by others.
To pre-register for your appointment time please