Starting to relax. Most work is done. I still have a few hangers on. I think I can knock those out soon. I have to, we are leaving for London in a few short days.
This morning was like every morning. I get up and make coffee and breakfast for both of us. It’s a ritual. If I were at home I would be making breakfast for the dogs and cats too. I don’t miss that. This morning we both had a bowl of gruel. And the coffee. Tasty.
There are big things on deck for today. Bigger even than a 6$ lobster roll. Or not. We rn errands today. Hardware store first. The bathroom sink has a leak in the faucet. So, new faucet and hoses. Not so bad, only $35. Of course, an hour of cursing and knuckle busting will follow. Then the glow of a job well done. And I call this vacation.
One of our favorite stores here, in Waterville actually, is Modern Underground. Mid century modern American furniture and housewares. Cool stuff. The same stuff I grew up with that e folks dumped in the 70’s and replaced with new modern. Oh well. Now we buy it back. So we drove to Waterville and it was our first stop. The shop really did not have the pizzazz it usually does. The owners wife died last year and he is depressed I think. I found a set of single old fashioned glasses which match a set of beautiful Collins glasses and shaker. Truly fab find. Cheap too. I own them now.
Our ritual continued, we left there and walked across he street to he Romanian bakery. We have been here many times and gone away empty handed. All bread is sold out almost every day. Well, luck was in our sails, they had bread. We bought a loaf of French bread. Today some other sucker is gonna miss out.
Went to the next door vintage clothing shop. They usually have great finds but I found nothing. Emily found a must have 80’s Italian leather bag. 15$. Did I mention everything is cheap? It is. So much stuff.
Next we actually did something I never expected my wife would do. We went to the Lebanese place next to Modern Underground and had lunch. We both had falafel sandwiches. Very good and again, very cheap. See why I love Maine?
Since we are going overseas I decided to ship the glasses back to CA. So, where do I go? Back to the UPS store I spent half a day at yesterday. Nice to see her again. Shipping cost an arm and a leg. No br ask for that even here.
Tonight we are having dinner with the in laws. It’s not every night but is most. We decided to go to the meat market. We figured we could browse the meat case and get something good. I have never been to Joseph’s Market before. It turned out to be a nice meat market but also had a few other things as well. We looked thru everything and settled on NY steaks. BBQ at 6. I was speaking to the butcher and turns out he is from Britain and now is a meat cutter here. Crazy.
After the market we decided to head back to Skowhegan. It’s not far but takes about 30 mins to get back. A funny thing happened on our way back. Outside Skowhegan we hit traffic. And it stopped. Here, this is insane. Started moving after awhile and it was an accident. And we knew the kid. It was Ryan who did yard work for us at the camp. Rear ended by an uninsured driver. Felt sorry for him. His truck is nice but it’s a 95 and I would bet the insurance co will total it.
We went to our camp and unloaded all our junk. We have in laws coming for dinner and cocktails tonight. In addition to the steak I am BBQn Em is making creamed corn and rhubarb upside down cake. With strawberry ice cream from Giffords. And the end result is a fabulous meal, of course. We always eat well here.
They left at a reasonable hour and we went off to readbourselves unconscious. Which did work well.