Favorite Maine Things

There are a few things I absolutely love about Maine. First are my friends who live in Maine. My friend Warren who lets me and Russ stay at his house for as long as I want probably should come first. He will give me hell if he is not at the top of the list. Not only does he provide a fabulous room and a Howard Johnson’s to play in he allows me to invite my other favorite Maine people over for meals.
Today we had our Walkers friend Julie and her husband Chip, or Larry as he is so known as, over for lunch. As a southerner I decided to just call him Larry Chip just so I was never wrong about who I was talking about. We turned the lunch into a birthday celebration for Larry Chip. He has been married to Julie for 31 years and I had never met him. But now Larry Chip as well as Julie are some of my favorite Maine things.

Yesterday we went to a Lobster shack in Rockport called Claws and had lobster rolls and clam chowder and those are definitely at the top of my list as well as Russ’. Russ is scheming about how he can get back to Claws quickly and have more chowder.

After our birthday lunch today we went to walk the Rockport breakwater. The walk is almost a mile long out the rocks to the light house. Warren had lent me his favorite hat to wear on the sunny day. It was quite a windy day and I was happy to have it. When we reached the lighthouse Warren went to take a photo of us. He took one, and the asked us to more a little to take another and then again. Just as he was taking the third shot the wind lifted the hat off my head and it hit Russ in the face and fell in a hole in the rocks of the breakwater. I knew I was in trouble with Warren for losing his favorite hat.

Russ tried to reach it and even he with such long arms could not get it. Warren did not panic, but found a guy with a fishing pole who came and fished the hat out of the hole. So Maine ingenuity is one of my favorite things. 

Tonight we had Warren’s mom and sister Donna over for dinner, so giving two parties in one day is a favorite Maine thing.  This also meant that we had dessert twice in one day, another Maine only event.

Tomorrow we are going to lunch with Sheppy and Dick Vann, so I love that I still get to see Sheppy in Maine even though she has left Durham. I hope that my other favorite thing, the cool Maine weather, holds up tomorrow.