Ike Hamill 11/27/22 Ike Hamill 11/27/22

Notes from Maine - 2022/11/27

The horses have a dental appointment tomorrow. The vet will dope them up, crank open their mouth with a metal ratcheting …

Ike Hamill 11/20/22 Ike Hamill 11/20/22

Notes from Maine - 2022/11/20

Finn (Mastiff, knee surgery) is doing well. We have eleven more weeks until he’s cleared. I imagine that’s how long it will take for …

Ike Hamill 11/13/22 Ike Hamill 11/13/22

Finn (English Mastiff) had knee surgery on Wednesday. He’s a little better each day, but it’s a lot to handle for him. At night …

Ike Hamill 11/6/22 Ike Hamill 11/6/22

I haven’t been sleeping well. I moved down to the first floor (Dad’s room) because Finn has knee surgery this week. He …

Ike Hamill 10/30/22 Ike Hamill 10/30/22

It’s amazing how easily thoughts and opinions drift. I had to look something up recently from own of my own unpublished …

Ike Hamill 10/23/22 Ike Hamill 10/23/22

A friend is visiting this weekend. He’s up from Massachusetts, delivering restored pinball machines to someone who lives …

Ike Hamill 10/16/22 Ike Hamill 10/16/22

My friends had a costume party last night. It was at a camping resort about forty-five minutes south of me. Todd came in from …

Ike Hamill 10/9/22 Ike Hamill 10/9/22

Gates are hard. When I bought this house (twenty years ago), it didn’t have any fenced-in pasture. I rented a post hole auger and invited a …

Ike Hamill 10/2/22 Ike Hamill 10/2/22

This time of year, I always feel like I’m on a deadline. A million details have to be squared away before the ground freezes and …

Ike Hamill 9/25/22 Ike Hamill 9/25/22

The air was perfect this morning. Clean and crisp. There was a hint of fall, but the bright sunshine promises afternoon warmth …

Ike Hamill 9/18/22 Ike Hamill 9/18/22

I was at Dad’s yesterday, throwing away shoes. These weren’t shoes that I would donate—they were shoes that already had …

Ike Hamill 9/11/22 Ike Hamill 9/11/22

I was working as a software developer twenty-one years ago when planes took down the towers. A bunch of us gathered in a …

Ike Hamill 9/4/22 Ike Hamill 9/4/22

I’m on hold again. Back in July, I had a moment of laziness and I decided I would buy some painter’s tape from Amazon. Mom was coming soon …

Ike Hamill 8/28/22 Ike Hamill 8/28/22

I grew up in the suburbs of Washington DC, and only came to Maine a few weeks out of the year. I was never once resentful …

Ike Hamill 8/21/22 Ike Hamill 8/21/22

Some days you wake up slowly—stretching, blinking at the morning light as you yawn and remember wisps of dreams. This …

Ike Hamill 8/14/22 Ike Hamill 8/14/22

My family is here. They arrived a week ago. Predictably, it has been ten degrees cooler and it has rained as much this week as …