We left York, Maine on the afternoon of July 3rd. We had planned to drop off my car and be done with it but, unfortunately, we lost the title sometime between Thursday eve and Friday afternoon. We still dropped off the car but are still working to get a title copy to the dealer.
Ruby found many spots to chill on the way. Little did she – or we – know that the fireworks on the 4th would be the last time we would see her. Cross Lake is a beautiful place and she’s lucky to have chosen that spot for her final walk into the woods. We love you Ruby. We place some items in Patti’s garden in your honor. We’ll miss you!
We stayed in WalMart parking lot in Houlton on the 3rd. We pulled in around 9:30. Ruby checked out the grassy area behind the camper for a while. We had some dinner and turned in. Saturday morning we pulled out and I spaced out on the cat box and drove over it. I fumbled around a bit trying to figure out which gas station to gas up at. We were at a Shell station after just using up a Dunkin Donuts gift card. Pam said, “let’s use our Shell gift card” but I drove across the road to Irving. “That’s okay, we have an Irving gift card too.” Too late, I was on my way back to Shell!
We stopped in Caribou to visit Papa. They opened the window for us and we had a nice visit. I pulled the sun umbrella and a chair out of the camper because it was quite hot in the sun. Ruby roamed around the nursing home grounds. I rode my bike over to the airport and all around the parking lot. Papa seemed to perk up as we visited.
County 4th 2020 
Is that all you’ve got? 
Benny and Grampie 
Lucy and Nana 
Langley and sunset Almost full on the 4th
We pulled into Cross Lake and Terry offered me a beer, as Pam had predicted, before we set about parking the camper in the best spot on the lake!
We had a lobster feed on the 4th and then we headed out on the lake in the evening for the fireworks. According to Cross Lake residents that we spoke to, that was the most boats and the most fireworks they can remember ever seeing on the lake! The moon was nearly full and we stayed out until well after nine o’clock. Lucy said, “In two hours it will be midnight!”. Benny got so tired he decided to sleep in his own bed instead of the camper.
Lumberjacks with Hank the beast 
Cautious ladies
The next day we went into Square Lake for some lumberjacking and picnicking. Bob had a tree he wanted down. Terry, John, and I took our cues from Bob and we got the tree down without any blood or guts being spilled. There were some hijinks with gas and Bob’s chainsaw. John and Terry had Bob convinced they had put pure gas in the saw and some fine acting by John kept the ruse intact. While Bob was cutting some brush for the firepit I heard him say, “might as well run it until it blows up!”
More to come…