Can’t believe I have been here five days. It seems like only last Sunday I arrived. Oh, yeah, it was.
This morning we did get up early. Zipped through our gruel and coffee. We had to take the car in for repairs. The car being a 32 year old Buick wagon. Luxury wagon I might add. Randy the mechanic is fixing the tailgate door so it will stay open instead of slamming on our heads. We have always used a stick to prop it open. Well not anymore.
We got there by 10am. All done by 1030. Nice. And the tailgate works!!!! It’s like a new car.
Now that our Rolls is new we headed out in style. We needed to go pick up our fire extinguishers from the recharge place. The rental needs one and so do we. There is no fire service out here. The fire dept policy is let it burn. Love them.
Since I ruined, accd’g to Emily, one of the few shirts I brought with me, we went to Reny’s in search of a replacement. Reny’s is a chain of discount stores. All over Maine. I found a replacement 3 for $10. I only bought one. And these are not crap. Nice T shirt. Of course, while here, looked around. Got some cheap beef jerky too. Can’t stay away from he deal.
We were driving back to camp when Beth called. She invited us to have lunch with them at Whit’s End. That’s a local Skowtown eatery. We like it. So off we go. They were already eating when we got there. No prob. I had a green salad with fruit and chicken. Nice. Not wonderful. But I enjoyed it. Can’t remember what Em has but it did come with homemade chips which Hank ate damn near all of. And he kept saying overs and over how great the chips were. Very annoying. Beth drank all his coffee and told him it was so delicious she had to. She laughed herself to pieces over it. Old people. Whatcha gonna do?
The folks headed home. Em and I headed to the fine jewelry dept at wal mart. Haha fooled you, they don’t sell anything nice. I need a watch. Mine is at home. Many have told me not to take my nice watch on vacay cu someone will steal it. So I left the Rolex at home. Now I have A Timex Indiglo Expedition. $40. A little less than the Rolex. But now I can stop staring at my empty wrist.
Our turn to head home. We put crap away and sat around. I had to do payroll, remotely, via the internet and I had a huge problem. My remote connection did not work properly. So that was two hours of bullshit looking for solutions. Called my IT guy and he worked on it. Pain in the ass but now limping along working. I hate computers.
We decided to go out to dinner. No in laws tonight. Crazy. So we left for the restaurant while I was still working on the remote connection. Emily wasnperturbed by that. She told me later. You know what I mean.
We decided to eat at Ken’s. We have never been there and have driven by it for over 20 years. Never stopped. And, after this meal, it will be another 20 years. Has anyone ever eaten deep fried food? Sure you have. Well, that’s all Ken’s serves. I mean it. ALL appetizers and ALL entrees are deep fried and they are bland at beat. I ordered soup, just to get off the fries thing. Not very good, bland,tasteless oysters stew. The desserts were not fried but I want s to leave. I think there was a salad on the menu. I’m thinking not fried.
After our enjoyable dinner we went home. End of day time for bed. Big day tomorrow. Party. More folks in town. Fun. Later. I think.