Month: July 2017

Actually, this is paradise. Another sunny, light breeze, warm day on the lake. It’s nice.

Today we are supposed to go to Waterville. Probably have a nice lunch. Emily wants to look at sofa beds. Maybe go to Modern Underground which sells retro furniture and housewares. Nice place. Maybe we can hit Giffords.

Right now we have had breakfast and coffee and are taking turns in the bathroom. I’m next.

Takes awhile to get moving when on vacay cuz we have nothing that has a strict time to start.

Finally. 1pm and we are headed out to lunch. Dan just got back from fish market with lobster and shrimp for the risotto he is making tonight.

We have been sitting around doing laundry, sitting around waiting for all to be done with morning ablutions. We only have one toilet and shower. Dan is entertaining. IMG_2531

Still sitting around at 1130 getting ready for our day. We move SLOW.

Went to Big G’s deli in Winslow. The best deli in Maine, or so says their sign. The sandwiches are huge, you have to share them. I wish I had taken a picture. The cookies they make are the size of small pizzas. Great place for you to visit next time you are in Central Maine.

No trip to Waterville is complete till you go to Marden’s for discount retail shopping. So we went there. We ran out of time for other activities. We had to get home early enough for Dan to make his lobster risotto. We are having friends for dinner tonight. No fava beans. No Chianti.

So here we sit doing the Maine thing

Dinner is done. A little entertainment before Dan is too drunk to play. IMG_2534

So now we sit around after dinner. Full and half drunk. Solving the world’s problems. Truly the end to a full day. Very nice.

Still waiting on dessert which is rhubarb on ice cream. Soon I hope, the level of discussion and volume is driving me crazy.

Maybe we can finish our game of hearts later. I was winning.

I am going to stop numbering my days here. Makes it seem like a prison sentence. We did not really have any plans it turns out. We do a lot of this
This is good vacay time. The weather here is almost perfect. Temp about 80 deg, light cooling breeze, a few clouds. Sounds awful don’t it?

The lake is looking good today.
Don’t be jealous. Water is absolutely perfect temperature. I mean it. Just dive in, refreshing without any shock. We have a canoe, a kayak, couple paddle boards and assorted floaties. And a private dock on each side of the lake for our use. OK, be jealous. I am.

We had breakfast at the Lakewood Inn, about 500 yards from our front door. That’s eggs Benedict with filet mignon instead of Canadian bacon. I recommend it.

The Inn is Next to the Lakewood Playhouse. They have a summer run of shows, seven days a week.

Today is a sit around day for the most part. We did drive in to Waterville, about 5 miles, to Reny’s which is a Maine discount store. Various and sundry items and food. Then home to sit around.

We are getting together with local friends tonight for a chicken mole dinner. I am providing cocktails, tonight is daquiris to which I add raspberry purée. They are nice.

Dinner was fabulous. as were the cocktails if I must say so myself. Since I am writing this, I have to say so myself.

We are getting ready to go to Gifford’s. As I mentioned previously, worlds best ice cream stand. And mini golf. We will be playing mini golf tonight. We already had ice cream.

Well, I beat the hell out of everyone at mini golf. It really bothers Emily. Too bad. So sad. Something I’m good at. Anyhow, we did skip more ice cream. You can have too much.

We came home and sat around for an hour and off to bed.

So this is more like day two, except yesterday I woke up in New Hampshire and then drove to Maine. So I figure today for first day of vacay.

We got up earlier than I wanted. Our friends got up at 830. I coulda stayed in bed except the only bathroom is in our bedroom. So if anyone is up, so am I.

Not much going today. Emily continues to clean. She put up wire on the porch railing to keep the stupid dogs from jumping and killing themselves. Yes, two of them tried. Jaxon did a face plant that sounded like he broke his jaw. Which is what he landed on. Dan and I drove to the hardware store for a couple things. We sat around till around 130. Then Dee and Marika came over and we all went to the Bigelow Hill Brewery for food and beer. Everyone else had beer, I had a sarsprilla. As most know, I don’t drink beer. We also had a couple pizzas which were very good.

Came home about 3 and putzed around a couple hours. We decided to BBQ burgers so back to grocery store for all the fixings. We invited the in laws over too. Nice dinner, I made cocktails (see the theme?) and BBQ’d burgers. We had pasta salad too. Emily made rhubarb upside down cake with ice cream.

A full day. Not sure what we are doing tomorrow, I think maybe a trip to Moxie Falls. Will see. I am going to bed cuz I’m still tired from drive

Since we got robbed of sleep yesterday we slept in till 8 am. 5 hours sleep is just great. The Motel 6 (a real gyp cause it felt like 5) did not serve breakfast. We went to McD’s. Delicious. Next stop was the New Hampshire state liquor store. Cheaper than Maine. Weird how it’s so busy in the morning. I have a new portable bar, called a Cock Tail Gator. I have bartending duties here in Maine and have to lug around tools and supplies to every party so I can make drinks for everyone. It’s a blessing and a curse.

We jumped in the car and off across the bridge and we are in Maine!! Finally. After 3000+ miles. We zipped through Maine quite quickly, listening to The Nighingale on CD. Stopped for gas once. No real excitement. Arrived at our cottage at about 230. Unhooked. Unpacked. Emily cleaned.

Our friends from Florida, Dan and Susan, arrived at Emily’s folks house in Skowhegan about 5 and we got there a few minutes later. Beth (mom) made American chop suet, dee (sister) made bread, I made cocktails and we had dinner.

After dinner we went back to our cottage at the lake as did Dan and Susan. We stopped at the grocery store to stock up on necessaries. Then we did what we do most every day here. We went to Giffords for ice cream. Greatest ice cream on planet earth. They have five ice cream stands here in Maine. The one here in Skowhegan is my favorite. I had a black raspberry frappe. Excellent.

We went to bed immediate after getting back. Hey, I am damn tired. Five days of driving sucks the life out of you.