Blog –May

April showers are certainly bringing May flowers, and we’ve had lots of sun this week and cool Canadian air to dry things out. Now we need some warm days to really appreciate the fact that we have survived yet another long winter.

Still, signs of spring are everywhere; the peepers are noisy at night, we awake to songbirds in the morning, my boat got delivered from winter storage and sits in the yard beckoning me like some siren, and I almost ran over two raccoons last night on the way home from Auburn. My neighbor Norm is out rototilling his gardens today, the buds are colorful on the maple out front and the lilacs are also budding up in preparation for their annual show, which lasts but a few weeks, but thrills us each year.

Molly continues to fight for the lake and is attending hearings on the discharge licenses by the paper companies into the Androscoggin River, which, of course, affects us all on the lake. She even convinced me to testify in a room packed with paper company workers who were bused to the hearing in a show of force.

Molly has just about made her way through all the special orders that have accumulated over the past year or so, and is designing her next ornament, still a surprise, but which will be as delightful as each previous one has been.

We are now marketing our ornaments through a website called www.wholesalecrafts.com, as we continue to look for new markets around the States (and around the world). Sam is a true genius at setting up such things on the computer. It’s a skill that we never cease to marvel at, and one that we could never do ourselves, thus adding another whole dimension to our business.

This month is full of birthdays, graduations, and celebrations, including Mother’s Day, so here’s wishing you all congratulations and good cheer for you and family and friends who are celebrating!