This month At Home with Annie has Chef Annie thinking about Valentine’s Day which is just around the corner and the scrumptious food you can share with your most favorite person in the world.
Recipes include: Warm Spinach Salad w/Sherry Vinaigrette and Goat Cheese; Lemon Lobster w/ Sun-dried Tomatoes; and Mini Apple Ginger Upside Down Cakes.
Lanterns on deck
Photograph by Jim Karg
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Where can you get your free copy of the J&E Riggin 2010 screensaver featuring 50 stunning images made by particpants of our annual Fall Photography Cruise with Frank M. Chillemi? Right here of course!
A great big thank you to all who submitted their photographs to make this incredible screensaver – David Thaler, Susan Lynch, Cathy & Craig Noorlun, Marjorie Tuthill, Chris Kloth, Dick Luxner, David Eskelund, Patricia Wisneski, Denise Adams, Denise Caparatta, Stefanie Lloyd, Maureen Riley, Tim Smith, Carol Notestine, G. Wesley Burnett, Barry Kaplan, Chad Sibert, Pam Selkin, Denise Remfert, Karen Burnett, Jeff Lane, Klaus David, Brad Short, Barbara Martin Smith, Joseph T. LaCosta and Frank M. Chillemi.
Directions for downloading: When you click on the link to download the screensaver a window will pop up asking if you want to open or save the file – choose save. Save the zip file to a place on your computer where you’ll be able to find it. Once the download is complete, open the zip file and click the executable (exe) file and it will self install. Then you’re ready to sit back and enjoy an armchair vacation in Maine.
There are so many wonderful photos that our passengers have shared with us, they deserve to be shared with everyone.
Instead of telling you about the changes we’ve made to our photo page, click on over to take a look for yourself – after all so much of what we do is visual!
For those of you who have not reserved your 2010 windjammer trip yet, there are only 12 days left to take advantage of our early booking discount. Reserved your sailing vacation before February 1st to recieve your 5% early booking discount (10% if you’ve sailed with us before)! Dates are filling fast….call us today!
Speaking of sailing on the J&E Riggin - because so many of you like our 4 day getaways we’ve added a few more to this year’s sailing schedule. The last two week fo August (previously listed as 2 six day trips) are now a series of 3 four day getaways including a Full Moon/Escape the Heat trip, an It’s All About the Food cruise, and the Camden Windjammer Festival. We hope you can join us!
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In case you haven’t been to our website in awhile, last month we posted our 2009 Fall Photo Album put together by New York photographer Frank M. Chillemi. Frank is also our Fall Photography cruise instructor and author of Windjammers, Lighthouses, and Other Treasures of the Maine Coast
Evening on the Maine Coast by Frank M Chillemi
As always Frank has caputred beauiful images of our Maine coast and we are thrilled to be able to share them with you. So grab yourself a cup of tea and sit back and enjoy our beauiful Maine coast through the eyes, and lens, of a Riggin family member.
Save America’s Treasures, a part of the National Parks Service, has awarded Association for Maritime Preservation (AMP) a $300,000 matching grant. What does this mean for the Riggin? AMP has agreed to take on the rebuild of the Riggin as their first project!
While the actual work on the boat will begin the fall of 2010, our work starts immediately onshore. The grant is matching, which means that our winter will be spent in partnership with AMP to raise the other $300,000. We’ll also need to sharpen our pencils to stay within that budget and still accomplish all we intend. It will be an exciting year!
The awarding of this grant means that as the stewards of the Riggin, we will feel we’ve done everything we can to ensure that she is eventually passed on to other owners with another 40 years of life within her. (Don’t worry, I said EVENTUALLY, we aren’t going anywhere anytime soon!) While she looks good now and does her job with a willing heart, this attention will be of huge benefit.
We are so grateful for this opportunity as the business could never have done it alone. If you would like to be a part of preserving maritime history by making a donation, we’d welcome your help.
Annie
Counting our blessing, they are so many
Goose Rock Light in the Fox Island Thoroughfare
Photo by Jim Karg
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Changes are fun and they are afoot in our world. As you’ll see, we’ve shifted Artichokes and Asparagus, my food blog. The new name is now At Home & At Sea. Sound familiar? Yup, it’s the name of my cookbook and WAS the domain name for the cookbook website. The cookbook website is no longer – thank goodness, because it was outdated as heck (no offense to O our website Yoda Zen master).
It’s the perfect time to shift focus as well. The food blog will remain primarily a food blog with sailing, mothering, crafting, gardening and business-ing thrown in. And because none of the man sailors in our family are even a little bit interested in blogging, this blog will shift to a more project oriented focus. There will be more to tell about that in the very near future. But I can’t tell you anything just yet!
Annie
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