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Monthly Archives: April 2014

Mud Season Roadtrip

April 28, 2014 · by shakeumup | tagged four seasons, Maine winters, mud season, snow melt, snowbirds, winter | Leave a comment

Winter in Maine can be long, snowy, and cold. This winter was all that and more. Snow started falling in December and once it did, there was nary a day that our yard was not covered in white, sometimes as deep as two feet or more right up to the middle of April. It did […]

The Zimmerman Challenge

April 26, 2014 · by shakeumup | tagged Afghanistan, fallen heroes, Fitness, Marines, Navy ROTC, University of Maine, Zimmerman Fitness Challenge | Leave a comment

  Several years ago I was visiting my daughter at her off-campus apartment in Orono near the University of Maine. She left for an afternoon class and I was passing the time reading a book on the coach in her living room when all of a sudden I heard a loud noise. Two well-built young […]

The Mystique of the Mustache

April 19, 2014 · by shakeumup | tagged Dennis Hopper, Fire Fighters, grooming standards, Mustache, porn star mustache, pushing the envelope | Leave a comment

I have known my husband for over 35 years and I have never known him without a mustache. The all male Catholic High School that he attended in the 60s had strict grooming standards which prohibited long hair (which was very popular at the time) as well as facial hair of any kind. Ready to […]

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