Having a cold makes blogging much easier

Friday and Saturday, July 19 & 20, 2013
Site 730, Narrows Too
Trenton, Maine near Acadia National Park

 

FRIDAY

How could having a cold make blogging easier?  Since you aren’t doing anything, you don’t have nearly as much to write about.  So today’s post is the second twofer in two days.   What a bargain!

We had a nice welcome from Narrows Too when we woke up this morning after our first night here.  The electricity was out.  We thought this was hilarious but we were well prepared.  We still had water in our gallon jugs, still had flashlights at the ready.  But it only lasted about 20 minutes and we were back among the plugged in.

The colds have the upper hand at this point.  We are resting, taking zinc and Echinacea tabs, lots of vitamin C, drinking orange juice and pretty much doing nothing.  Not much to blog about.  David is in day 4 of this, I’m in day 3.  He is handling it with more patience than I.  Are you surprised?? 

 

 

David naps.  I read a book set in Maine entitled The Way Things Should Be by Christina Baker Kline.  It’s a light weight novel about a mid 30’s events planner at a museum in New York City who loses her job and reinvents herself in Bar Harbor.  It’s fun reading about a place you are visiting and about as heavy a novel as my stuffed up head can take.  I picked up the book because it was about Bar Harbor and because of the title.

 

 

 

 

 

When you cross the state line into Maine, the sign reads

WELCOME TO MAINE
The Way Life Should Be

For the first two weeks I was here, I was in 100% agreement.  Now since some Maineiac gave me this cold, I’m not so sure

 

 

SATURDAY

 

This morning everyone else in the group of friends here goes out to pick Blueberries on top of the Connor’s Nubble in Acadia National Park.  We are too busy coughing and blowing our noses to go along but I tell them that if they bring back 6 cups of berries I’d bet they could talk David into making a blueberry pie.   He’s not coughing as much as I am so it will be safe.

 

 

Now these are low bush blueberries and small berries not like those of us from the South are used to so picking 6 cups might take all 5 of them to do.   I’m thinking they won’t want to give up that many after working so hard.

It is a very hot day today and the top of the nubble is treeless.  So it’s a hot job.  They are out over 3 hours and bring back an amazing number of berries.  Nancy delivers 6 cups to our door.  We ask them when they’d like the pay.

 

 

 

 

 

 

So at 7:00 dessert is served.outside on the double picnic tables between Tricia & Dan and Gin & Syl’s rigs.

 

Nancy likes the pie and gets a picture of it and the baker although she says she only wants just a bite.  She certainly has more will power than I do.  Just a bite would be impossible.

 

Everybody seems to like it.  Pam says she just wants a bite too but she succumbs to an entire piece.  Way to go Pam!!

 

I announce that plate licking is an approved activity.  Bill does not take the offer.  But I did!!  And Dan does but I can’t take his picture, I’m too busy licking.   Wish there had been some left to take home for breakfast.  Guess we’ll have to go out and pick some more for another one.

 

 

We got a bigger approval than that.  The end of the rainbow is running right down between the two coaches where the picnic tables are.  Guess I’m not the only one that thinks David’s pies are the Pot of Gold at the End of the Rainbow.