September 13, 1998
| Yesterday was a busy day in Unity. Patricia and Mary's Books and Bagels coffee house/bookstore opened quietly. They took an old eyesore of a building across the parking lot from the Homestead Restaurant and made it into a light and airy space where they showcase North Country Books. Melissa makes their soups and cookies. Upstairs they will have a few computers hooked to an ISDN line. Let's see: books, coffee, Melissa's chocolate chip cookies, the internet; I think all my needs are satisfied.
Yesterday was also an annual community work day; the college students and town residents work together on sprucing up the town. Melissa and I were on a team that cut a trail through the woods to connect an apartment building with town. We had to wear hard hats. In the woods the swamp maples have already turned red, but you know how it is with swamp girls; they're always ahead of their time. |
| Other teams did litter patrol, put markers in front of historic buildings, cleared a stream of debris, and helped to roof a barn at the new MOFGA fair grounds where the Commonground fair will be held in two weeks. Commonground is a big organic farmers/gardeners fair and this is its first year in Unity. We've been booked for it for months, and we have overflowed into the "annexes," that is, anybody's house that has a spare bedroom. Half of our house will be taken up by Sweet Baby James' mama and her entourage from Mass. We will serve breakfast in 2 shifts. | 
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 | And here is Delli (Delta Hat, which is a lower case delta with a caret over it, signifying a transition function in finite automata which are little logic machines, and that's kind of what a cat is, a weird piece of fuzzy logic that transits between states with the speed of a hallucination), our old sock monkey of a cat, kicking back on the deck rail. How old is this cat? Well, she was a kitten when we moved to Lacombe from N.O. and we lived in Lacombe 13 years. |