Nantucket Last Weekend
The shops were just waking up, some of them sparely stocked but eagerly open anyway. We stayed with our old roommates, made big dinners and said things like, “the ol’ crew back again!”
We went to the public driving range, bought six baskets at $5 each and sliced away at every last ball.
We sprawled on the beach and let Lux pick up all the bits of crab shell she could find.
I made my first batch of mint lemonade with black tea. Nice in the afternoon. Even better with bourbon in the evening. (five tea bags, one canister frozen lemonade, one bunch mint)
Lux tried my pancakes. She tried my chocolate doughnut. She chewed a marshmallow. A first-sugar-on-the-first-birthday baby she will not be.
We scampered around the grocery store buying ears of corn, loads of fresh dill for potato salad, slabs of salmon for the grill, and extra paper towels.
When Lux napped, we lit a pile of charcoal and had s’mores as an afternoon snack. Joe believes in six squares of Hersheys on each, I grew up with three so six seemed insanely decadent. What about you?
Last year’s Daffodil Festival on Nantucket, and a recap of our last summer there.
10 Comments
Jessie
Cutest pictures! Lux is an angel. I agree with you, I’m a 3-square chocolate smores person 🙂
whatsanniecooking
Do you know the ‘cookbook’ bookstore on Nantucket owned by a woman named Jean? Ina Garten talked about her on her show yesterday. Nantucket looks so great. I sent your blog to Mimi and Poppy and he really loved it as that is where they went on their honeymoon 64 years ago!!
jessica clare
That sound amazingly idyllic! Lovely.
whatsanniecooking
For your mint tea recipe-how much are you making? A quart? Then do you pour it over ice? I forget how refreshing mint tea is!! Love the pics of Nantucket!
susie
lovely writing and pictures!
Anna {dear friend}
Looks perfect and sounds like such a wonderful time. Happy summer!
juliana lyman
yay i found you online! ted and i went to island last weekend to open up madaket house and i was sad to see you werent at west end market. but so happy to see you had a beautiful daughter! the west end wont be the same without you 🙁 hope to see you out and about on the hill, best wishes to you, joe and lux! sincerely, juliana lyman, gm savenors
Rachael
Juliana! Thanks for hunting me down! We shop at Savenors so much lately, you guys do such a good job. I know, I was really bummed to see the meager state of the market…but we can’t do everything. : ( I’d love to be back again some day, I miss all of it!
Are you at the BH shop a lot? I seem to remember you said you were more on the Cambridge side of things…
juliana
hi ya! im usually at cambridge (admin office is next door) i try to get to hill once a week -odd how time flies and it winds up being once month:)
ps-im leaving an envelope with your name on it at the charles street savenors. its a small gift but it keeps giving. see diana the manager.
Rachael
how mysterious and exciting! thank you!