Because it's what we do up here with no television and no place to go, and because it was raining, we went to bed at about 9:30 PM. I read, worked on the blog, wrote lists of stuff we had to do, and could not sleep. Maybe it was just because I was so excited to finally be here. This place is heaven and if we had found it twenty years ago, we definitely would have bought it. No, wait, we didn't have money to buy it twenty years ago. Anyway, where was I? Oh, yeah, I finally fell asleep at about 3:30AM. We were both up with the sun and the birds, but we lounged around for a little and then we got to work. I didn't want to put this off.
We unpacked, reorganized, and put as much of our junk out of the way, I know for sure, now, that we did not bring as much junk as we did last summer. There was plenty of room in the closet for our clothes and in the drawers for our foldable clothes and other stuff. What we weren't going to use daily, we left in the shed--which is fine as there is plenty of room there.
However, we were starving at about noon.Luckily, the cottage owners had left us wine, cheese, crackers, and chocolate, so we had a little of that last night. There are no groceries in the house, so we'll have to take a ride into town (about 1/2 hour). There are not a heckuva lot of choices in town: Joshy's (love the fried bologna sandwiches) but it was closed and there was talk in town that it might not open up this year. There are two strictly breakfast places (but it was past 1:00PM) and there was the Mexican place which used to be run out of a truck but it's now in a building--take out only. Our favorite place has always been 44 Degrees North, anyway, so I don't know why we were thinking of going elsewhere. It has a very large bar area in the back and a restaurant area in the front. There was no one in the restaurant area, but some of the locals were hooting and hollering in the bar, so that's where we went. We noticed that they had new items on the menu and we started with two local brewskies. Then I ordered, of course, a lobster roll and Bob had prime rib (for lunch!). After three beers, and the lobster roll (perfectly done lobster--and a lot of it-- with a little mayo in a grilled hot dog bun--the kind with the sides not crusty) and Bob's prime rib was lean and delicious. $30. Can't beat that.
The restaurant is right next to the little grocery store (Stop and Save). It's pretty small and doesn't carry a lot of the things we needed, but it would provide us with what we needed until we can go into Ellsworth (almost an hour away) another day. After we got the groceries, we had a few odds and ends to pick up at the Family Dollar, then we were in the van to drive back to the cottage.
The refrigerator is much smaller than the regular sized one that was here two years ago and there was little space for canned and boxed goods. The owner is a baker and has wonderful appliances and baking utensils and pans. However, we had plenty of space for what we bought. Last time we were here, we ended up boxing up (three boxes worth) all of the food we had bought and not even opened to take to the mission. I think we will be more careful this year. We are trying to eat less and move more, so we have plenty of food for now. There are still a few staples that we need, but we don't need them now.
Neither of us were that hungry, so we just had some wine and cheese and crackers and it was another early night to bed. I read for a while and dozed off at about 10AM. It is supposed to rain tomorrow.
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