The thing about Old Orchard Beach......

Is that you have to embrace it's complete and total ghetto-fabulousness!! So many people turn their noses up at the mere mention of the place... but not this girl. I FREAKIN' LOVE IT!! From the fat WAY TOO TAN french dudes in speedos.... to the rode-hard-put-away-wet chicks with their cigs and lighter tucked into the string of their bikini... to the lobster red beer bellies.... COME ON... what is NOT to love!!?? I could just sit and watch people all day long.... if there weren't some totally rad waves to catch, dude. ;-)

Last time I made this, it was so labor and time intensive I swore it would be a LOOOONG time before it happened again.

It was SO much easier this time... "I'D" make it again ANYTIME!! ;) ;)

Summer has officially arrived

(Let's just pretend it's not cold and raining out)

Today is the first of our FABULOUS FUN FRIDAYS!!!! We wanted to start it off with some something REALLY COOL... but since it's raining, we settled for "pretty darn cool" with a trip to the UMO rec center WAY COOL POOL, lunch at Pat's Pizza, and then going to see the movie UP! I LOVE that Karyn has Friday's off too and is up for any kind of adventure with all the kids! I even caught her googling "sea kayaking in Maine" the other day!! BRING IT ON KARYN!!

it's only NOON!!!???

We are kickin' ass and takin' names today!!! The den of crap is actually almost presentable!! The hallway of "where the hell should we put this... I don't know just put it in the hallway" is CLEAN and ALL of our shoes are in the CLOSET on SHELVES!! Thanks to all my scrappy stuff going bye bye... I actually have SPACES to put things!!

Rick took about 127 contractor sized bags of bottles down to the bottle drive to save the "B" teams that got cut out of the schools budget. We will be taking FULL credit when the teams are out there playing next year. Rick also took... and is still taking... 2,769 bags of junk to the dump as he works on cleaning out the basement. I think it's ok that we skipped the gym this morning since we are both a sweaty mess!!

We also cleaned Sean's room. The dump and goodwill are now fully stocked. For reals. It was BAD.

I'd love to say now that we have it all good... it will stay that way, but who am I even trying to kid?

Orono Farmer's Market and some garden on campus...

The market wasn't really the "jackpot" for me. I bought some flowers to plant, but other than that there wasn't really anything I was interested in. After that Sean and I found a little garden to take some photos in.

Very glad to have some sunshine today!!

Chris and Raffi.... seperated at birth?

I'm just sayin'.......

Jessi has whipped up a little dessert....

Hangin' out(side)

Gorgeous day today... AND too windy for blackflies!!

Sean setting up one of his MANY "snake traps."

He has random things laying all over the yard and checks them periodically to see if any snakes have gone under. He is usually rewarded. He has mad snake trappin' skillz. Today he even almost landed a new species he had never seen before. A Milk Snake. Ew. (Not my photo... his got away too quickly.) Let's all be very happy that there are no poisonous snakes in Maine.

Here is another favorite pasttime...

I don't even know the last day that Lucy stayed dry all day long.

P.S. In case you are into that kind of thing... I didn't take these with my new zoom. Ken is taking it for a test run right now. I took all of these with my 135mm prime that I LOOOOOVE!!

'Sup chickens?

Wave bye bye to all my scrappy stuff. It's sold off to a lovely family in Dover, Maine.












Wave HELLO to my super yummy, super fast, super sharpy, new zoom lens... bought with the proceeds of aforementioned scrappy stuff! LOVES IT!!

(tried to take some fun outdoors stuff but was out there for 1 minute and am already all bloodied up from blackflies... BASTARDS!!!!)