Dan Moulton

Scary Terry plush doll laying down on a freshly split firewood pile.

"Ideology, n. An imaginary relationship to a real situation."

– Kim Stanley Robinson (2020)

Day 155 of the Scary Terry Juice Stewing Marathon.

Scary Terry plush doll sitting on a pile of freshly split firewood in the sun.

""Sometimes, she said in a measured voice, "people would rather give you money than other, harder things."

"Like what?"

"Like their time, don't go asking for money when what you want is something more valuable, Blue.""

– Cassie Beasley (2017)

Day 154 of the Scary Terry Juice Stewing Marathon.

Scary Terry plush doll sitting on a pile of freshly split firewood.

"But it’s a tiresome preoccupation, self-esteem. Something has to be done to limit the number of people whose opinions can affect us."

– Saul Bellow (1987)

Day 153 of the Scary Terry Juice Stewing Marathon.

Scary Terry plush doll sitting in a dish drainer inside nested steel bowls.

"When everything you think you own—your belongings, your life—can be swept away in an instant, you must ask yourself, What is real?"

– Ruth Ozeki (2021)

Day 152 of the Scary Terry Juice Stewing Marathon.

Scary Terry plush doll sitting on a yellow vinyl covered kitchen stool with a heavy olive wood bowl on its head.

"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."

– William Shakespeare (1599)

Day 151 of the Scary Terry Juice Stewing Marathon.

Scary Terry plush doll measuring the temperature of steak and shrimp on a kettle grill.

Surf and Turf Terry, now in stores.

Day 150 of the Scary Terry Juice Stewing Marathon.

Scary Terry plush doll sitting in a box of Parlor Doughnuts in a kitchen.

Terry is about to have the day he deserves thanks to the visiting in-laws.

Day 149 of the Scary Terry Juice Stewing Marathon.

Blanket fort with a dog and Scary Terry plush doll on a couch.

Slumber party pregame testing.

Day 148 of the Scary Terry Juice Stewing Marathon.

Scary Terry plush doll sitting on a pot full of lettuce and herbs growing on a brown deck looking up at the sky.

Vacationary Terry #11.

Day 147 of the Scary Terry Juice Stewing Marathon

Scary Terry plush doll hanging by a garden trellis overlooking daisies and lupins

Vacationary Terry #10.

Day 147 of the Scary Terry Juice Stewing Marathon.

Scary Terry plush doll in a bowl of seashells with a front entryway and staircase behind. A map of Cape Elizabeth, Maine is on the wall.

Vacationary Terry #9.

Day 146 of the Scary Terry Juice Stewing Marathon.

Scary Terry plush doll sitting in a birch tree with a brown colonial house and blue Honda Fit in the background.

Vacationary Terry #8.

Day 145 of the Scary Terry Juice Stewing Marathon.

Scary Terry plush doll sitting in a patio chair with a Milagro Tequila pillow. Paddle boat in a pond in the background with a fountain.

Vacationary Terry #7.

Day 144 of the Scary Terry Juice Stewing Marathon.

Scary Terry plush doll sitting a music auditorium watching a Counting Crows concert with the stage lit with purple and green lights.

Vacationary Terry #6.

Day 143 of the Scary Terry Juice Stewing Marathon.

Scary Terry plush doll sitting on y'all grass looking out at a summer lake with boats and camps in the background.

Vacationary Terry #5.

Day 142 of the Scary Terry Juice Stewing Marathon.

Scary Terry plush doll laying on a peony plant.

Vacationary Terry #4

Day 141 of the Scary Terry Juice Stewing Marathon.

Scary Terry plush doll on a traeger grill on a back deck with a barn with solar panels in the background on a summer day.

Vacationary Terry #3.

Day 140 of the Scary Terry Juice Stewing Marathon.

Scary Terry plush doll sitting in a field of orange Indian paintbrush flowers.

Vacationary Terry #2.

Day 139 of the Scary Terry Juice Stewing Marathon.

Scary Terry plush doll sitting amongst yellow lobed tick seed and white ox eyed daisy flowers.

Vacationary Terry #1.

Day 138 of the Scary Terry Juice Stewing Marathon.

Scary Terry plush doll trapped in a mason jar style carpenter bee trap.

Terry can see how a carpenter bee would have trouble getting out of one of these, even if he isn't trapped himself.

Day 137 of the Scary Terry Juice Stewing Marathon.

Scary Terry plush doll posing on a table with a bottle of Nikka From the Barrel Japanese Whisky and Bowmore Scotch with a rainy front yard and street in the background.

Terry can certainly appreciate the last of the old growth family lawn in the front yard while the back yard soaks up some cool rain. Happy Father's Day!

Day 136 of the Scary Terry Juice Stewing Marathon.

Scary Terry plush doll posing with a handmade father's day card with a drawing of a girl and her dad.

"Whoever it was who enticed us here, that person knows or has taken the trouble to find out a good deal about us all."

– Agatha Christie (1939)

Day 135 of the Scary Terry Juice Stewing Marathon.

Scary Terry plush doll sitting on scaffolding in front of redone poplar fascia and soffits on a stone front house.

Not only is Terry cooler, he's Poplar in all the right places as well.

Day 134 of the Scary Terry Juice Stewing Marathon.

Scary Terry plush doll sitting inside a sliding door cooler with the lights on.

There's a pretty good chance Terry is cooler than you.

Day 133 of the Scary Terry Juice Stewing Marathon.

Scary Terry plush doll sitting in front of a freshly seeded and strawed field with signs of rain flowing through the ditch surrounding it.

When the straw works and the ditch does ditch things, triumphant pictures are in order.

Day 132 of the Scary Terry Juice Stewing Marathon.

Scary Terry plush doll using a straw blower mounted on a trailer.

Terry doesn't recognize it as work if you can rent a launcher to get the job done.

Day 131 of the Scary Terry Juice Stewing Marathon.

Scary Terry plush doll shut in an immersion blender hard plastic accessory case on a speckled granite countertop.

Terry has decided to pursue personal betterment through an immersion program.

Day 130 of the Scary Terry Juice Stewing Marathon.

Scary Terry plush doll sitting on a freshly graded backyard soccer field.

"We are born to a time. What you do with it is on you. Do the best you can. Try to be good. And live."

– Charlie LeDuff (2013)

Day 129 of the Scary Terry Juice Stewing Marathon.

Scary Terry plush doll on a stump of a large oak tree that was just felled.

"The beauty and variety of the natural world are merely the visible legacies of endless war."

– Elizabeth Gilbert (2013)

Day 128 of the Scary Terry Juice Stewing Marathon.

Scary Terry plush doll sitting on a chair in the light of a streetlight.

"The past was always there, lurking in the corners, winking at you when you thought you'd moved on, hanging on to your organs from the inside."

– Marjan Kamali (2019)

Day 127 of the Scary Terry Juice Stewing Marathon.