Cold Cold Winter in Maine

The weather started to get warmer last week but this week we are back below zero degrees. Believe it or not, I saw a girl today at the gas station filling up her car and she had no jacket on and her hair was wet. She did not even look cold. The temperature on my car thermometer read 2 degrees. It is hard now to imagine the schooners in the harbor and people hiking up Mt. Battie. The children do not go in the playgrounds and recess is held in the gyms because it is too cold to go outside. The Mid Coast Magnet Group, the group of young professionals in the area, held a meeting last week at one of the bars in town and in the email invitation it said, get out of the house and into the light, that's right I called you pasty ! Everyone is ready for a little sun and fun again here in Camden Maine. The ducks seem to be the only ones that are still content. I was in the Camden Deli last month and witnessed the mating ritual of the ducks right in front of the big window overlooking the waterfall. As we were getting our dose of nature, right in front of our eyes while eating our lunch, someone was throwing bread crumbs out a top floor window to the ducks. So - the duck were mating and eating, what's better than that in the bitter cold months in Maine.