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Pineland Farms in New Gloucester is a nonprofit farm/office/outdoors space.
There are even horses.
Not much to say here. You've been warned this was coming. Amy is back in Maine, so we're doing typical Jim and Amy things. That includes walking through grassy fields and being dorks. Monsterous, Monsterous dorks. Dorks who, when driving a car across railroad tracks, lift their hands over their hands as if on a roller-coaster and say, "wheeeeee."

We're kind of sickening. I know.

Low tide isn't exactly magical. Still, Mackworth Island in Falmouth is pretty
awesome.
We've been running around Maine in the last 36 hours. Amy got a massage while Daisy and I went for a walk in Falmouth. Tuesday, Daisy went to doggy daycare because I. Need. A. Break. And it's much more socially acceptable to send your dog off for the night than a kid. Also, you're not supposed to keep kids in crates and feed them dog food.

Seriously, turkeys are *everywhere* up here.
It's been nice not having the dog. Today, because I'm obsessive, I'm going back to the farm Amy and I found yesterday. I'll go for a two-hour run, then pick Daisy up. Good times. Maybe some pictures will come of it. You can only hope.

This is where I'm going for a run.

Comments

  1. JillOctober 12, 2011 at 7:27 AM

    ^ That looks hard to run on. Pretty. 81-5-8.

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  2. sarahs32flavorsOctober 12, 2011 at 7:55 AM

    I want to be in Maine in the fall. Wisconsin feels like an ok backup plan. But still.

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  3. JPOctober 12, 2011 at 10:24 AM

    It does *not* suck here in the fall. This. Just. In.

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