The great CFC chain letter part 2: around the world in 800 days!

[CivCube]

My dogs sleep on my lap all the time.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Broaden your horizon. Pets come in many shapes and forms. i bet your dog has never slept on your lap. I bet you wouldn't want that to happen from your dog in any case. I wouldn't want that from my dog, either.

Are you saying that you wouldn't want a dog to sleep on your lap?

That's really sad. The only complaint I ever had when my dogs slept with me was their snoring.

 

[classical_hero]

Not the dogs we have had. They are just far too big for that. Any thing that is smaller than we have had is basically a rat and not a dog.

 

[Birdjaguar]

My good friends lived in a cabin in Athens, about 20 miles N (NE?) of Skowhegan. I can certainly sympathize with you on the winter drearies. We spent a bit of time with them each winter, and watched them suffer more and more from clinical cabin fever. Eventually He got a job driving a truck route from Portland to Boston to Providence to NYC to Albany to Manchester to Portland... She went slowly crazy. They moved back to the inhabited world a couple of years ago for the sake of their daughter.

The winters are very long and cabin fever is habitual. I had to go to Waterville to find not very good work. Life there was pretty unstimulated.

My father's family is from the Moosehead Lake area. Which is one county east of there. I still have an aunt and uncle there, and try to go up for a brief vacation every year. 70 years after dad left home, his home town is up to a population with a grand total of ~350.

I'm sure that Anson is still a tiny town of less than 1000. My aunt and uncle retired to Waterville, ME from Boston.

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

Not the dogs we have had. They are just far too big for that. Any thing that is smaller than we have had is basically a rat and not a dog.

The bigger the dog the nicer the lap sleep. In fact it`s not so much in your lap as a full blown arm in leg lie/cuddle. I`m getting misty just thinking about it.

 

[Cutlass]

The winters are very long and cabin fever is habitual. I had to go to Waterville to find not very good work. Life there was pretty unstimulated.

I'm sure that Anson is still a tiny town of less than 1000. My aunt and uncle retired to Waterville, ME from Boston.

Waterville is one of the great metropolis of Maine. It's the last stop for the Greyhound.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Waterville is one of the great metropolis of Maine. It's the last stop for the Greyhound.

that's because there is nothing but trees and bugs to the north.

 

[Cutlass]

Some nice tourist areas at Moosehead and Milinocet. One of the country's most romantic B&Bs is supposed to be at Moosehead.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Tourist season: July thru Oct. In after black flies and mud; out before winter.

 

[Cutlass]

Unless you like snowmobiling. The lakes are fully froze until January.

 

[Birdjaguar]

I prefer tropical beaches, thank you.

 

[emzie]

Her cabin.

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

Wow!!! Looks just like "Big Whiskey" in The Unforgiven. I get off on that kind of scenery....very jealous.

 

[warpus]

Are you the first to post a photo of your mom on the forums?

Nice cabin btw

 

[classical_hero]

I prefer tropical beaches, thank you.

Same here. The cold is something I detest.

 

[Plotinus]

I cannot stand heat. If I had the money I would have one house in southern New Zealand and another in northern Canada, and fly between them every six months to avoid summer. (Unfortunately my wife is the opposite, so we'd just pass in the air twice a year.)

I like that cabin. That could almost be a shot from Skyrim.

 

[Cutlass]

Given a choice between a winter in Maine and a summer in the South, I'd definitely pick Maine. The cold is easier to avoid and deal with.

 

[madviking]

LIES! Warm weather is best weather. I hate snow.

 

[peter grimes]

Given a choice between a winter in Maine and a summer in the South, I'd definitely pick Maine. The cold is easier to avoid and deal with.

Agree 100%.

I went to the Dominican Republic once. I will never go back to the Caribbean. It was humid and the sun felt like a furnace. The only half-way comfortable place was in the shade of a tree just off the beach, where the wind kept the air not-quite-as-oppressive.

This was in April.

I would much rather winter over in Alaska or Newfoundland than go further south than Washington DC.

 

[warpus]

I cannot stand heat. If I had the money I would have one house in southern New Zealand and another in northern Canada, and fly between them every six months to avoid summer. (Unfortunately my wife is the opposite, so we'd just pass in the air twice a year.)

I like that cabin. That could almost be a shot from Skyrim.

You do not want to live in northern Canada. I'm not sure exactly how far you mean or how cold it'd get, but it'd be cold! Southern Canada is really your best bet