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Izzy and Penny Summer ‘09.  Penny was about four or five weeks old.

In 2007 I wrote a post about Maine Biofuels.  That was when they were just getting started.  The place has come a long way since then.  It has gone through several transformations and reconfigurations, but the goal has always remained the same - recycling used cooking oil into diesel and heating fuel.  In fall 2009 […]

I just made my first body surfing hand plane.  A couple months ago a friend turned me onto this relatively small movement in the wave sliding world.  After a little online research I was taken (slightly obsessed even) with the idea of making my own.  I had seen people body surfing in videos with small […]

I spent most of this past weekend on my knees or in a crouched position in my mom’s downstairs bathroom tiling.  I actually enjoy tiling - it is brutal on the knees and back but quite satisfying at the end.
In this case I went right over the old vinyl flooring.  It isn’t the best practice, […]

I finally sent some film out to be developed, some of which was exposed as long as six months ago.  What can I say - I’ve been busy.
Cascade Falls was once a popular destination for tourists and locals alike.  There was a pond stocked with trout above it and a real live black bear locked […]

I’m suffering from extreme arm/shoulder fatigue after battling some pretty heavy conditions the past two mornings.  On Sunday the Portland Buoy topped 20ft and on Monday it stayed above 16ft all day.  Tuesday and today it finally mellowed to around 10-12 which is still a little too big for the most exposed beaches, but good […]

My wife and I celebrated our second wedding anniversary last month.  The funny thing is, we had to go looking for our marriage certificate to find out exactly what day it was on.  I guess that’s just what happens when you elope.  When you have a more traditional wedding the date sticks in your mind […]

After a pretty long dry spell, during which my wetsuit hung next to the furnace getting crustier and crustier, I finally got some waves last Sunday afternoon, then some more this morning.  This morning was particularly good, with a stiff (and bitterly cold) offshore wind and consistent sets in the head high range.

Worth mentioning is […]

The new www.markmarchesi.com is now live.  I’ve been working on the redesign for the last few weeks.  I made my old site in Dreamweaver which allows you to create web pages by simply adding images, typing, and moving elements around a canvas, generating the code automatically as you go.  I created my site with no […]