Hajj update

The box o' books departed North Salt Lake, UT yesterday morning. En route from Pennsylvania to Maine, via Connecticut...

Wonder if it's going back to Connecticut again, to be dispatched thence to, say, Vladivostok?

Mud Season

"Mud Season" has struck Maine with its usual force, turning gravel roads into quagmires and sloughs of despond. Freeze-thaw, freeze-thaw, you need a vehicle on the order of an old army-surplus "deuce-and-a-half" to navigate. Which means that folks who live down dirt roads, for the duration, no longer have mail delivery, school bus service, ambulance or police or fire coverage.

This comes as a surprise to some people.

Maybe, along with lead-based paint and asbestos disclosures and structure inspections, the real-estate people need to include "dirt road warnings" in any sales agreement.