Vignettes

     The following narration covers a few days from Saturday afternoon to Wednesday morning. There are no great adventures, just a pleasant sequence of day to day events. We'll start with a lobster boil on Saturday.

     That's Dick Roth, of course, tending to the three pots of lobsters (and a few steamed clams). We had a few extra lobsters. I took an extra and Durelle and I each had a nice lobster roll for supper on Sunday. Dick decided to eat one of the extras on the spot. Here's Dick finishing his second lobster while folks are cleaning the tables around him.

     On Monday evening we had our regular Happy Hour. There are a dozen or so folks with a fairly regular rotation of new blood to freshen up the conversations.

     On Tuesday eight of us made the two hour drive to Brunswick to pay a visit to George Peck. The nine of us then drove down the length of Harpswell Neck to have lunch at the Dolphin, a seasonal restaurant with a long tradition of excellent fresh seafood. The fish pieces in the fish chowder were almost large enough to warrant a knife and fork. I had the "Seafood fra Diavlo". Outstanding, and the warm blueberry muffins made a nice side.  Here's a shot of the table with George at the head.

     Wednesday morning we learned that the great white hunter, Richard Ray, had captured the guinea fowl that had worn out his welcome. He stuffed him in a cardboard box until the appropriate authorities came to get him. A local farmer who keeps a flock of chickens and some guinea hens was happy to add him to his flock.

     The visiting granddaughters of Steve and Pam got a chance to pet the bird.

     Later in the morning, to conclude this ramble, Dick and Eleanor teamed up to repair the broken accordion style window shade for the small front window of our left front slide out. These shades, which seem to be common to many motor homes, are notorious for broken strings. Replacing the string is an intricate process involving several tools, several hands, and a lot of patience. It's one of those jobs you don't want to do for the first time...start with the second time. Then, after the shade is repaired, it must be reinstalled in the valance and the tensioning adjusted. Here's Eleanor hard at work.

     Now, if that hasn't been an eclectic assortment of images, you'll never see one.