Doing the Maine Thing

The first midsummer visitors

The first wave of midsummer visitors arrived here last week, so the work we were doing on the house got wrapped up and we stowed our tools for a while.

The first hearty souls were Consuelo's old friends from Up With People, Cheri Cross and Deb Bruce who live in Northampton, Mass. They stayed two nights with us, we had cooperative weather, so we took our pontoon for its maiden voyage to Rockland Harbor to watch the Friendship Sloop races. It was a beautiful day and we had lots of fun out on the water. I took scores of pictures of the sailboats challenging each other in light breezes. After that, we found a wonderful seaside lobster joint in Owl's Head and they treated us to lobster. And after that, we went to the movies to see Mamma Mia, a bunch of fun movie.

Friedship sloop racing

As they left on Saturday, my son Paul and his family, with one cousin from NC in tow, arrived for an overnight. We took the pontoon out in Friendship and cruised over to Cow Island to see if we could find seals, and we did. They took us out to lunch at Moody's, and while we were there, my brother and his wife arrived from Brookfield, Mass. They fed us well on Sunday night, the most delicious steaks. We took the boat back to Rockland for another harbor cruise, and on Tuesday, we bought a bunch of lobsters here in Friendship and had a feast with all the fixins.

Wild blueberries

When they left on Wednesday, I took a walk with my camera back into the Maine woods, and found a place where I could pick blueberries. We had those this morning on cereal. Another treat!

And we're doin' the Maine thing, ayuh!