Thursday, June 5th, Errand Day in Ellsworth

Ellsworth is a cute little town. It has a number of restaurants, antique shops, boutiques, and chain grocery stores, drugstores, a TJ Max, an LL Bean outlet,  chain fast-food joints, a Home Depot and Walmart, and RENY. We love Reny. Reny is kind of like Yellow Front, combined with Big Lots (no furniture except for outdoor furniture) and an LL Bean outlet with a lot of Maine things (lobster stuff, outdoors goods).

Our first stop was to Walgreen's and guess what we saw as soon as we walked in?

Yup, those are lobsters.

After Walgreen's we went to Reny and picked up a bird feeder, TV table, tarps, teas, rope for the hammocks, teriyaki sauce, wine glasses---and much more, but I named the items so that you got an idea of all the stuff available here.

We were hungry again, so we went into downtown. There is a wonderful BBQ place there called Mainely Meats, and a great wrap shop called 86 This, and a terrific Mexican restaurant and an ice cream shop. However, we love Finn's. It's an Irish bar and so much more. The food is delicious and they have a great variety of beers on draught. Bob got a beer and I got a beer. He ordered Bangers and Mash (sausages and sauerkraut on a roll and garlic mashed potatoes on the side). I had a Celtic Garden (all veggies with pesto on a hoagie roll) with a small side of Lime potato salad. We are so glad that nothing's changed at Finn's. Everything was delicious.

Finn's Pub, Ellsworth

Bob captured eating

Bob went to one of the antique stores where he had seen a framed photograph of the wrecked schooners at Wiscasset. He had seen that picture two years ago, but he didn't buy it. Well, it was still there and Happy Father's Day, Bob. I visited two of my other favorite places, but didn't see anything that I wanted to spend my money on. We didn't go to the kitchen store (Roosters) or TJ Maxx or the cottage furniture store or a few of our other favorite places. Instead, we saved them for the next time we were in Ellsworth.

It was after 4 PM when we left Ellsworth and started driving to the cottage. It took us a while to bring everything in and put everything away. Again, we wanted everything out of the way because Clay and Bethany (our hosts) had really streamlined and simplified (elegantly) the things in the cottage when they renovated it (new bathroom tile, shower, wooden floors throughout, kitchen cabinets, doors on both bedrooms, new apartment sized stacked washer and dryer). It didn't take long and it was time for us to do some reading, work on the blog.

We want all of our friends and family members (especially our New York families) to come stay with us. Send a text and we will put you on the schedule. We promise fun, good food, and beautiful scenery. We already have a few return visitors who asked us if they could come, so don't ask, just check my and your calendar.

Internet connection is not very good here, so it takes much longer for me to post to the blog. I probably won't post unless we have an exciting day or I have something to say or pictures to post. Tomorrow is our 44th wedding anniversary. I wish I had a picture of us on that day, but they're all home in Glendale. We are going into the Blue Hill area to explore and have an anniversary dinner at a wood-fired pizza place called the Barncastle . Read all about it tomorrow. I'll take pictures.