Flying and driving, we all converged on South Bristol. Some planes were late but saintly patience was the watchword as is EVER THE CASE in our family.
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| Left Baltimore at 7:30am, drove all day. | Left DC at 6pm for Portland, met S&A in Damariscotta | Left NYC at 8, arrived Late but was cheery about it | Plane from NYC delayed, arrived VERY LATE INDEED | Drove down from Acadia on Saturday |
The next morning we woke to find ourselves in a beautiful house on a beautiful day.(click here for Anodyne House page) The Damariscotta river sparkled across the road, the garden was absolutely lovely, and the house was splendid.
The back yard is filled with flowers, with a fine vegetable patch, and the cutest little hen house.
The four resident hens kindly allowed us to take their eggs for our breakfast. Eating: we did a lot of it. You may ask, what did we eat? Breakfast was cereal, eggs from Gertrude, Celia, Beatrix, or Vita, and bacon from Pig Unknown for whose generosity in making the ultimate sacrifice we have the warmest approbation. Also, of course, COFFEE. Without which, life is futile and lacks all purpose.
Other menu options were mostly limited to choices from Table 2 (see below)
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We had a pleasant Lunch in Dameriscotta, and then, went shopping for the PARTY. Around 5 the festivities began--a very good party! The Hope family knows how to party, I believe!
Followed by dinner at the lobster pound (for menu options, see Table 2).
Sunday was again--impossibly--lovely. Lawrence, Beatrice, Brian, and Jacob went sailing with Persis and Peter.
Before lunch, it occurred that people defied fate, and swam in the icy waters. Dear Lord, how heroic are thy people, to thus disdain the evidence of their senses and sport in the icy billows despite the pain and agony they suffer thereby. I myself stayed on land, being ever sensible.
After that splendid lunch, we bid farewell to our dear family and drove back to Anodyne House, stopping first at the lobster pound to buy dinner (see Table 2). The evening was spent on the lovely porch, feasting and drinking. And so to bed.
On the morrow, we had a last breakfast together, made our adieux, dried our tears and headed back to the real world.
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| Drove back to Acadia Sunday noon | Monday: Anna to Acadia, Seth to Baltimore. | Monday: Drove with Seth to Portland, plane to Baltimore | Left late on Monday, plane delayed AGAIN | Stayed till Tuesday but it rained. |
LOTS of lovely pictures available here
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