THEN
LetItSnow()
First snowfall of the season here in the Portland, Maine area.
It is an unseasonably warm day (upper 50s F) and the sun is kind of shining, so I decided to do a quick lunchtime ride into the Old Port section of Portland. It's a pretty good ride - there is one downhill section where you pick up speed and end up coasting at 30 mph. Then I meandered down Commercial Street and sat for a while. It was nice to let the breeze and sun and random bits of cruise ship tourist conversations wash over me. Then a quick ride back up the hill and over the bay.
]]>Giant cruise ship docked downtown today:
Took another lunchtime ride today to train for the Trek Across Maine. Plus, it was just nice out. Took a brief break to grab a picture of the flying fish:
I hope the folks who purchased and set 300 lobster free in Portland took some video we'll get to see at some point:
McAleney said that late Monday morning, in the midst of a lobster shortage and record high prices, a group of young men and women came into his New Meadows Lobster Pound in Portland and bought all of his one-claw lobsters -- 300 of them -- and paid $11.25 for each, in cash. That totals nearly $3,400.It wasn't for a lobster bake. The people in the group said they wanted to release the lobsters, and even got McAleney's advice on where to set them free.
We got about a foot of heavy snow overnight.
This is actually a cute book by Mo Williams, who has won various awards for his work for Sesame Street. It will be interesting to see how they stretch it into a musical. The stage adaptation of Go Dog Go was surprisingly entertaining, so I'll be optimistic.