My Chandler Street Bungalooo Backyard

I got up early this morning to enjoy the early morning dew out in mi back yard today. I heard the birds a chirpin' - bird feeders all over the property have made it a safe haven for them...and a few friendly squirells milled about waiting for their morning meal from the seeds that fall off of the bird feeders.

There was a nice calm over mi yard and the neighborhood like there is in many other nice neighborhoods in the wee town of WooTown this mornin'!

The two large bushy Evergreens in the pic were planted by me over 13 years ago and have grown well above the fence and can now be seen from the front door of Dunkin Donuts on Chandler Street.....the three small ones to the left were planted about two years ago and they are starting to mature.

Around the cornah I have two new Lilac bushes a growin'....you can see them at mi uddah blog and across from the Lilacs is a not your typical compost heap of everything! I have a very healthy night crawlah colony that is helping with the compost decomposition as well as my reborn fishing hobby:>)

It's an easy to maintain wee city yard that has a variety of WooTown fauna and New England flora:>)

Paulie's NOLA Jazz & Blues Festival - Permits secured:>) Thanks WooTown!

Happy days are here again
The skies above are clear again
So let's sing a song of cheer again
Happy days are here again!

The final WooTown liquor permit was aproved today to go along with the food permit and toilet permit - we are ready to go now!!

Muchas Gracias WooTown Officials - we will not let anyone down:>)

The nuevo restaurant EVO is going to be involved...Greek Gods Yogurt, Honey Farms, Harpoon Brewery, Randell Package Store & Best Buy have bought in as sponsors....our room block at the Marriot Courtyard is filling up and we will be on the WCRN True Talk Radio Hank Stoltz Show next Friday at 11:00 A.M.

WooTown Urban Core is going to be rocking on July 11th...we will have Cajun Zydeco sounds, New Orleans Jazz sounds, New Orleans Blues sounds & New Orleans food and refreshments - no reason to head to Dennisport on this summah weekend folks:>)

John & Son's Fairgrounds
226 Chandler Street
WooTown, MA 01609

www.baevents.com for more information and to purchase festival tickets

2008 Festival

My 1963 Cadillac Sedan deVille

It has spent more time in the shop over the past two years than on the road but this is about to end folks......the body has been completely re-done over and there are no more dents, blemishes, rust or rot and it will have a new but original Maroon color finish this week and a new muffler system is being put in by Lou's Custom Exhaust in North Reading, MA tomorrow morning:>) I am pretty excited about all of this as I have been waiting to enjoy this car for a very long time.

I bought the car in the "Summah of 96" so that I could cart my new girlfriend at the time, Paula "a real Oklahoma peach" around in but we never made it thru the summah, I still have the Caddy:>)...my uncle Kenny sold it to me for $350.00 back in 1996 and I have had it all these years....some times driving it but more often than not it has sat in my mothers yard, behind my office on Wintah Hill or in the auto mechanic shop getting repaired! I finally made a decision to drop some money into it two years back and bring it back to it's original slendore of 1963.....but this decision has been side tracked by a body man who works slowly...very slowly:>)

The Caddy still needs a completely nuevo interior upoholstery & set of tires but this stuff will all be done ASAP...so be on the look out for it this summah!

If you have an interest in Classic Cars and want to show one off...there is a meet being planned for the American Legion Marsh Post #442 in Cambridge, MA this August and maybe even one here in the Village of Piedmont-location to be announced!

Wanna join in on the Charles River Classic Car Yahoo E-Mail List???

Hay WooTowners..where do you buy your vegan bread??

I'll bet there are not to many places in WooTown where one can get their vegan fix.....and frankly I just do not understand the entire concept but I understand funk and having this food purchase option is funky and something this city desperately needs more of so I thought I would give a shout out to the Artichoke Food Co-Op and it's food offerings that are available to the public!

I'd love to see these cats get it together and be a wee bit more capitalistic so that the Artichoke Food Co-Op could expand and be more of a force in WooTown-employment and product wise but this is probably not in the making so it is what it is and I wish them well:>)

So for all you WooTown west enders and Paxton residents looking for more than a BJ or heroin fix...Main South has one if not the lone vegan bakah in the city and he has bread to sell!

Artichoke Food Co-Op
800 Main Street
WooTown, MA 01609

Ask for John Provost:>)

Paulie's Powerhouse "BackPacking Hike Up & Down Mount Tremper"

I'm back from my first overnight hike in 8 years....and the 3.1 mile hike up Mount Tremper in the Catskills was no piece of cake!

This was the first time I have hiked up and down a mountain with a full pack and it was quite challenging for me. I have day hiked up and down Loon Mountain in New Hampshire, day hiked Mt. Wachusetts in Princeton, MA and have run up Pack Monadnock in New Hampshire but this was the first time backpacking with a full pack weighing about 50lbs. (not to mention me weighing in at 250lbs.+:>)

The last overnite backpacking trip was a two nighter over the Long Trail in Vermont using much of the same gear I used on the Mt Tremper hike but no mountain climbs were involved even tho it was pretty hilly.

I am pretty happy ovah this hike.....probably something more than Buddy the Beagle and I should have tackled first time out this year but we did it and I and am very pleased with my own effort and pretty damn proud of that ole hound:>)

The Hike up and down from the Phoenicia, NY side is not filled with a lot of panoramic views of the Catskills and the trail bed is littered with small and large chips of bluestone from the ole quarry half way up making it a challenging workout but it is a great woodsy hike that has a few very small mountain creeks to cross over, tons of birdsong & small crittah chirping and an ample amount of deer sightings for a hikah to enjoy.

I am usually able to see the deer before Buddy the Beagle does and it is not unusual for him to smell an ole scent and go nuts...on our hike down off the mountain Buddy spotted a small herd to our right before me and he went nuts after the herd....it was fun watching him chase this herd as it scattered to get away from him...and he chased it a fair amount off trail and up an embankment - for a moment I was worried I may have to go off trail and look for him but once he realized none of the deer understood he was only looking to be amigos he found his way back on to the trail and me:>)

Buddy the Beagle and I pitched our tent on the top of Mt Tremper - we got to the summit at about 6:00 P.M. on Monday. The first job was to climb to the top of the fire tower to check out the panoramic views it offered of the Catskills and Buddy followed:>) The wooden stairs have seen better times so we did not stay up there long but I am glad we got this in first because it was very foggy on Tuesday morning and we would not have the panoramic views available to us on Monday evening!

After setting up the tent and making some dinner we retired for the night in the tent - I read a wee bit and Buddy the Beagle sacked right out....about 10:00 P.M. is started raining and it rained all night long and into the morning. One thing to note about rain when camping....it may contribute to a romantic evening inside by a fire with a significant other but when camping out in a tent with a dog on top of a mountain it does nothing but keep you up for a good chunk of the night and is also no fun when the night time "it's time walk" takes place with the pooch:>)

The rain came down well into the early morning so it was a great reason to sleep in...and we did! Buddy the Beagle and I were still knackered from the day before's hike and we still had to get off the mountain so sleeping in did us no harm:>) We finally got up...made some breakfast - tea and warm granola w/ banana for me and Purina Dog Chow for Buddy the Beagle....broke camp and enjoyed the last few moments of the foggy mountain top and then hiked down and back to civilization:>) Boy was civilization glad we made it back - aren't you:>)

We cleaned up at the trail head...I enjoyed a cold Budweiser..traded some stories with hikahs going up and then headed to Woodstock, NY for a chicken salad sandwich (I have found the best place for chicken salad in the entire World) and then we did some meandering around Woodstock, NY before heading home but not before stopping off in Catskill, NY for one more slice of pizza for Buddy the Beagle and me....a celebration for our accomplishment was in order and what bettah way to celebrate than over slices of great pizza:>) It was our first ovah night mountain backpack but not our last.......any Buddy the Beagle friendly suggestions?

Mount Tremper BackPacking Trip 2009 Pics