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A hhh! Spring!! With it comes the birds, the bees, the blooms, oh, and the work. As soon as the garden plot dries out from this latest rain the work of turning and seeding will begin. As the old saying goes: the first crop a Maine farmer picks is rocks. Thanks to the glaciers that transversed our state over many millennia farms in Maine have a fresh crop of rocks to pick in their fields each spring. As my sweetheart likes to say”If you can pick it up it’s a pretty little stone, if you can’t it’s a goddamn boulder.”

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L ast Friday was a 4-20 to remember. Pat LaMarche played my song "Heartless Bastards" on the Pulse Morning Show, and she likes me on facebook "a lot". "Heartless Bastards" was inspired by Pat's notion about the latest attempts of Governor LePage and the Republicans to cut benefits for people in need.

While in real life I am a normal father and professional worker bee, for about half a day a week I transform into the political songwriter blogger comedian known as Jimmy Reefercake. I often write plain old angry protest songs like this one that Pat liked so much:

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B eing a senior in high school is more than what you see on television. Sure, there are spats of drama, exciting love triangles, and even the occasional spouts of senioritis; however, there are other, more important problems to worry about that has left my classmates and me wondering about the future ahead of us. Where will we go once we are handed that diploma? Whom will we meet? Will we fulfill our aspirations? Will we fail? Right now, students face the prospect of never finding our dream career, let alone a sustaining job. We enter the world as we did when we were first born: scared, unfamiliar, and sometimes crying our eyes out. Yet, high school has equipped me with the materials necessary to venture out into the world with my head held high, and a determination to prove that I am not just some kid that will become the next “average” generation.

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