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Brian Bilbrey November 3, 2025

3 November 2025

Marcia's last fishing day Marcia made it out on our boat just one time in the summer just past. Bonus for her - she caught the first (and second) fishes that day. Not big, but first, which was a big deal for her, as I was usually the one to catch the first (and the most) fish in any given outing. Coming into summer, her health was already failing, and she didn't have a lot of balance or stamina, both of which mitigated against coming out on the water in a small boat. She managed a couple of other trips…

Brian Bilbrey September 18, 2025

18 September 2025

An Apology Y'all. I seriously intended to do more updates this year. As in, many more updates. But for reasons that will become slightly clearer, there's been neither the time nor energy for keeping up appearances. Several of you have dropped me an email or some other form of communication to check in, and I appreciate that from the bottom of my heart. Since May of 2025, Marcia's been beset by several sequential significant health challenges. If she chooses to do so at some future date, there may be more details here or on her site. While things are stable…

Brian Bilbrey December 31, 2024

31 Dec 2024

I've tried, and mostly failed, to post more this year, but I'll keep at it. Frankly, there's more to occupy my attention and time up here in the hinterlands. Late Spring into Early Fall is all about work, yard work, and fishing. The rest of the time, it's work, yard work, snow management (when that happens), heating management (all the time, split wood to re-split and re-stack, 40# bags of pellets to move around, etc). I'm not grumpy about this, we have a good life up here in Maine, we're both more relaxed and ... happier. WInter dog walks make…

Brian Bilbrey November 27, 2024

27 November 2024

Y'all, if you're in a place where you can or will celebrate a Thanksgiving holiday tomorrow, please enjoy it! Family? Friends? Pets? Alone? All or any of those are a reason to give thanks each and every day, regardless of a specific date on the (Hallmark(tm)) calendar. So even without a holiday, have the best day you can. For us, we're going to be starting the day with blueberry scones (so Marcia tells me). We're baking a large, unpardoned turkey for the main course, and there will be some mashed potatoes, gravy, homemade cranberry sauce (just cranberries, water, sugar, and…

Brian Bilbrey May 28, 2020

28 May 2020

Well, the beginning was a good long time ago. And one thing I can always take away from the Drake Equation is that a primary reason that we're alone is because civilizations just don't last long enough to get past the deeply stupid stage that follows the enlightenment. Whether we do it to ourselves, or Giant Asteroid '20 does the job for us, the bell is tolling. I know, I'm a cheery sort of bloke, eh? You look at the news. I'll go back to the small shit that I have control over. Like ... The garden is alive. Almost…