Quincy's World

I am behind on Quincy photos, but I do have them. I haven’t been in the mood to get that done recently since Ashby was put down on September 16th.

I have added a bunch of Ashby related items to the site today. For now, I removed the U.S.S. Quincy tab and replaced it with an Ashby tab. That tab will bring up a bunch of Ashby pictures that I scanned in from our photo albums. I made a DVD of Ashby through the years and that’s why I scanned in the photos. So, most of you probably haven’t seen those pictures.

Two days before Ashby died, I took a bunch of pictures outside. There’s a few with Quincy, but most are just Ashby as he roamed around the yard. I felt like I needed a batch of pictures to remember him by that were very recent.

The same day that I took the photos, I also shot some short videos. I posted two videos on one page.

Ashby was such a huge part of our family and Quincy’s life, that I felt it necessary to do something nice for Ashby’s memory. I will remember all the good times we had and not let his anxiety/aggression tarnish those memories.

This post is just a heads up to inform people that I’ve come to the difficult decision to have Ashby destroyed because of his aggression. If things don’t change dramatically in the next couple of days, we will be having him put down this Wednesday. Words can’t begin to cover how awful I feel about this. I have put over 10 years of myself into this animal, and right now, he doesn’t bring any positive aspects to our lives except one: Quincy adores him. That, in itself, is what will make this awfully hard to do, but there is no way around it. Ashby has become far to dangerous to keep at home any longer.

So, unless you hear from me otherwise, Ashby will no longer be with us as of Wednesday some time.

I plan on putting up a page of Ashby pictures at some point on this site to remember him.

It has been a very wet summer here in Maine and that has been bad news for most crops. One crop that likes the rain is the blueberry. So that’s the good news regarding blueberries. The bad news is that there is some fungus that has come from Canada that is infecting Maine’s blueberry plants. It is highly contagious plant-to-plant and the only way to keep it at bay is to burn the fields. It hasn’t become extremely widespread yet, but it may prove to be an issue in the future.

You would think that it would be easy to find a place to pick your own blueberries in Maine, but we found the opposite to be true. Maybe we just didn’t know who to ask or where to look. Dara actually found out about a place not too far away from us from one of her patients.

It was a very pretty day that we drove to the blueberry picking place. They also have raspberries to pick, but we didn’t want any of those. We were the only people there picking blueberries too, which was nice. The man tending the fields said it was “busy” in the morning. I had to take his word on that one. We picked 5 quarts with Quincy picking almost an entire one by himself. With some basic instructions, he was able to pick all by himself with only an occasional red berry tossed into the mix.

I’m not sure if you can tell from these pictures, but we did not pick the small blueberries – the so-called wild blueberries which are cultivated here in Maine. These were high bush blueberries. They had a nice mixture of medium sized berries and large berries to pick with the larger ones being sweeter. At only 4 bucks a quart, it was time and money well spent. Blueberry cobbler anyone?

I was going to put the pictures here, but decided to put them in the gallery with all the rest. You can find the pictures in the normal location.