This weekend / Maine
We’re driving up to Maine tonight. We’ll leave around 7pm and play loud music until Lux decides she’s sick of this hipster scene and falls asleep. In this photo from Maine last summer, Joe’s wearing his t-shirt from Saturdays NYC that he has probably worn every week for the last year. We need a new one, and I love them all.
I hope we can:
pick up some raw milk (for mozzarella/yogurt making)
sit on a porch and play in a yard, two very foreign concepts around here these days
have a tasting flight at Mt. Desert ice cream (strawberry fig balsamic sorbet! girls scouts gone wild!)
see sunrise on acadia mountain in the morning
and garage sale in the afternoon
buy a pile of mussels for dinner and do nothing except set them on the grill, put the lid on, and then pull them off one by one as the open.
I hope you have some summery things planned for yourself. Finally buying a carton of strawberries, perhaps? Treating yourself to a jarful of lemonade? Borrowing the Sunday comics from your neighbor’s newspaper? Stopping to talk to all the dogs? (this is Lux’s plan for sure)
6 Comments
Annie Slocum
Have you ever had tea and popovers on Mount Desert Island? We rode our bikes all over the carriage paths there and ended up at a wonderful spot that served the best popovers ever!!
Rachael
yes! We went there last year on your recommendation!
Eby
Sounds wonderful—summer in list form. Especially a treat to read about while deep in root veggies and wool on this half of the earth!
Rachael
The Australian blogs I read have the same effect—it’s just enough of a seasonal distance that I don’t feel threatened by the mention of “cold.”
Lindsey Frances (@lindsfrances)
Where did you stay? I keep meaning to plan a weekend trip to Maine!
Rachael
I’m not helpful there–we stay at a friends house! (that’s mostly why we go) but around Bar Harbor I always notice places near Otter Cove. So cute–and there’s a free shuttle to town, I think.