Friends Come to Maine Day

One of my great joys about coming to Maine is that I get to have my Walker’s Friends Nancy and Karen come and visit for a few days. It has become our annual get together, except last year when Nancy couldn’t make it because she got a big new job so Karen came alone.

So today is the day my friends came to visit. I always want them to come back so I try and make everything wonderful. I went to the farmer’s market first thing so I could get fresh bread. I saw the bacon man and decided that making a giant BLT seemed like a winner.

After arriving we ate lunch on our deck looking out at the sea and caught up on all the news. We didn’t quite get through all the news. So we took a Shay and went for a big hike in the Ash Point preserve at the end of our street. The nicest thing about that hike is at the half way point you come to a bench overlooking the sea.

So we sat there a while and continued our talking. We actually never stop talking. We have been doing that since we were fourteen together, which is officially 50 years.

Russ finished work and joined us for dinner at In Good Company, the appropriately named restaurant in Rockland. It was the perfect start of our days together. I love having life long friends who I have known through every part of my life and their lives. Somehow we always have more to talk about.