Here's The Blondster's pic at her friend's house with the ...

pictures hung crazy high and spread apart like someone thought they'd trade off cooties if they got too close to each other. The one I mentioned last post.



She's just walked out the front door, happy as hell because she's on the first afternoon of a four day weekend, and going to a Halloween party tomorrow night - the fun kind, you know, like the ones you probably used to attend (or hell, maybe you still do...)

Anyway, Happy Halloween weekend!

Hmmm. I forgot to put these pictures on...

So I screwed up and forgot to pop the Maine pics on. Also a cute picture of The Blondster on homecoming night (taken at one of her friend's houses, a friend whose mom hangs their photos WAY too high, by the way).

I've been doing a lot of working at work and working on writing, so sorry (again) I've been behind on the blog.

Here's The Blondster (aka Mommy's Little Boo Boo Bear): (Woops - I don't have the pic saved yet.)

And on to Maine...

Sand and skies on the way up to Portland.


Wells, Maine has this cafe and it had good lobster rolls for lunch. And beer.


And...a Portland place with a lobster picture on the pub sign.


The craggy rocks of the Maine coastline. I kept blinking. Thought I was in Wales until I noticed the houses were different. Plus, the Welsh version of a rocky coast is breathtaking rather than 'yep, quite nice'.


We took the ferry out into Portland Harbor; had lunch out on Peak's Island.


The little cafe on Peak's Island.

Maine was gorgeous

JB took this picture on his freaking Blackberry.



This is one of those landmark Maine lighthouses - the Portland Head Light. It really was beautiful to see. Saw a lot of other things, and sat in some good bars, too, as we do, and heard stories about moose hunting and summer island people and the horde of Irish that still live in Maine because that's where their ancestors landed. In Portland. Kinda neat, listening to the stories.

I'll pop more on later this week.

Meanwhile, hope you and yours are having a good afternoon, evening, or morning, wherever you are...

I've always liked to go...

and so has JB. We were traveling souls long before we knew each other. Now that we know each other (and okay, that's been a while now), sometimes we travel together sometimes we travel apart. This week we're doing a bit of both, as he's been in Singapore on business (he took the picture below of a restaurant there, where he ate/drank satay and stingrays, or something like that. The people he was meeting with there wanted to take him to a many-starred restaurant, but he wanted to eat where the locals ate on a regular basis. (This may damn well be why sometimes traveling apart is sometimes a good thing for JB's wife, who woulda gone with the many stars. I'm just sayin'...)



Anyway, he's almost home now - actually, after a few hour stopover in Tokyo earlier today, or whenever it was there - and in a few days we are on our way, together, up to Maine. It's a business trip for me, extended for a couple of days so we can look around a bit.

Hope you all are fine where you are!