Maxx's Maine Camping Blog

Camping Show Notes and Eagle Update

Hey!  Maxwell here!

Sorry it’s taken so long to post, but things have been crazy here since the camping show!

Tami says she saw lots and lots of campers she knew.  She talked up the campground with lots of new campers too. Everyone seemed really upbeat and positive and ready for summer to begin.  She had a lot of fun chatting all day .  . . which is something she doesn’t get to do too often in the dead of winter.

Tami said the kids really liked my photo!  A couple of times, they stood in the aisle pointing at it and chanting, “Mom, Mom, Mom!  It’s Maxwell!  Look! Maxwell! ”

Awwww, thanks!

Things have been hopping here; the phone’s been ringing and people are booking their favorite campsites.   With Alex back at school, Tami put me to work making copies and stuffing envelopes.  Now I have sticky hooves and stamps on my antlers.

I’m just hoping Tami doesn’t scoop me up with all the outgoing letters, and put me in the mailbox too!

We hiked to the lake twice last week, but no sign of the eagles.  There were ice fisherman, and plenty of tracks.  We even found this hole with signs of someone’s dinner to the left of it.

One of Tami’s non-fiction writing friends said that it looked like a red squirrel hole.   That’s how they travel in the winter from place to place, under the snow.  It keeps them safe from owls and hawks and such.

And here’s Big Joe’s camper

The snow’s gone down a little since Tami took this photo . . . but it’s nowhere near ready to move in yet!

It’s been pretty quiet around here, except for this visitor:

He reminds me of the picture book A Snowman Named Just Bob by Mark Moulton and Karen Good.  I told Tami she had to get it for story time this summer.