September 8th, 2011
Cape Elizabeth, Maine
Greetings From Maine!
Getting familiar with the greater Portland area has been fabulous! No clam has gone uneaten, no lobster is safe, no farm stand went unvisited, 
and what picturesque vistas seen while cruising around the area and the beautiful Maine coastline.
Jordan’s Farm Stand, Cape Elizabeth, Maine.
Portland is a wonderful small city, it has just about everything you need for a full and healthy life.
About ten days ago I received word that an old and very dear friend, Charlie Mutch, age 86, had had a heart attack following the very recent passing of his wife, the incredible, indomitable, wonderful, Murial Mutch.
That’s Charlie and Muriel’s last garden of Dahlia’s…grown together this summer. They were married 67 years.
Charlie Has had a Dahlia named after him…The Charlie Mutch!
I went to Prince Edward Island, Canada, to see Charlie, and be with him during a tough time.. For about ten summers of my youth I worked on Charlie’s family farm, and fell in love with PEI, adopted Charlie’s family as my own, worked like hell on the farm, and dove head first into all the coming of age experiences one has in the then unspoiled countryside of PEI.
I hold this fine gentleman in the highest regard, and love him like a father…he is one of the very f few true mentors I have ever had. Thank God he’s going to be OK, and is now back at home.
Here’s Bill Gilson, age 92, and spry as hell! A joker, Bill still drives, and is a real piece of work.
While on PEI I had the pleasure of visiting my dear brother Tony and his wife Pat. They have a lovely summer home on PEI and it’s one 
of the most tranquil places you can imagine.
He keeps telling me that some day he’ll install an indoor toilet!
Clockwise from left to right…Merilyn Mutch, Cathy, a friend of Merilyn’s, Bill Mutch, and YVT. We had the most delicious seafood at
The Clam Digger Restaurant, in Georgetown, and caught the best damned sunset I’ve seen in a good while.
The beautiful Harbor in Montegue, PEI. Montegue was voted one of the best places to live in Canada!
The lighthouse on Panmure Island.
The Montegue river.
The old family farm days are sadly over on PEI, but some of the buildings are still intact…here’s a typical old time farm owned by Alfred Mckenzie, of Montegue, PEI. A beautiful sight!
When on PEI I always have the greatest real estate fantasies, and here are a couple of homes in which I wouldn’t mind spending a summer or 
two. These are typical Island cottages with harbor views. About $145,000 each.
PEI is ground zero for me…the natural beauty of the Island, the honor of working on a small real deal, family farm, the first shy arm put 
around a girls shoulders, being chased by the Mounties for various infractions, learning to swim, eating 
monster farmhouse breakfasts in the house to the left before spending the morning in the fields, (I’d turn Muriel’s homemade toasted bread yellow with butter).
I’ve moved about 40 times, but PEI has always given me a sense of place that has never left me.
Off to New Orleans in the morning for a week or so, then back to Portland, to fetch my new Subaru Outback, the perfect car for Maine winters.
XO
Middie
