May 28, 2015 Thursday

7:52am
Good morning kid!

7:56am
A quiet morning at the lake. Ahhh…

8:00am Phil
Good morning!  Looks very quiet

8:02am
The summer tourist season has not started here. So strange!

8:06am
At supper last night there was a handsome older man at the next table where I saw his face every time I looked up. And his bright yellow t-shirt with 4 blue letters. And I caught words here and there… kept you high in my mind. ; )

8:07am Phil
Older gentleman?!

8:08am
Looked like a military man. : )

As compared to the teens who work the place.

You are my favorite older man you know…

They’re about to have Bike week in Laconia. Bet you’d have fun with those folks.

8:11am Phil
Ahhh. Would be fun. Starting to ride with a local group. Fun people

8:12am
Great! The folks I met with Kris were the best.

8:13am Phil
Free spirited people, enjoying life

I work with such an uptight, workaholic crowd

8:16am
Loosen em up.

8:43am Phil
I try very hard, people have no lives, just work. We go on travel, put in 10-12 hour days and they go back to the hotel and work till they can’t see anymore. Come home and they work all weekend. And they do it for free cause they don’t claim the time. Screw that!

8:53am
It is so beautiful here…restores my soul

9:26 am
Morning walk by the lake

Momma Mallard and her 9 ducklings

The Margate beach bar

Me at water’s edge

Rhododendrons

Flowers in a planter by the hotel door 

More rhododendrons

11:18am

Delicious breakfast @ Kitchen Cravings, Gilford NH

Dining room full of kitsch

All the beverage

Hubby’s “fluffiest ham & cheese omelet evah” 

with asiago cheese bread toast

The trainer – 1 egg, 1 bacon, 1 sausage, 1 french toast 

with a side of bacon and a side of kielbasa!

The unicycle – french toasted cinnamon swirl danish

12:01pm Phil

: )

5:16pm
A Lake Winnipesaukee day!

Weirs Beach…everything closed and empty.

The lake

Kellerhaus sign

Kellerhaus itself

Flowers near the Kellerhaus entrance

A big marigold near the Kellerhaus entrance

The ice cream buffet topping list

The ice cream buffet

The Kellerhaus ice cream parlor

Shibleys at the Pier, an amazing lake front restaurant in Alton Bay

Shipley’s at the Pier menu with a fun map of Lake Winnipesaukee

The bandstand in Alton Bay

Interior of Shipley’s at the Pier. 

They also have a water-level outdoor deck.  But it was too hot to sit out there. 

The lunchtime view

Lunchtime view of Alton Bay, NH

My lunch – split pea with ham soup and scallops wrapped in bacon

Reuben egg roll with delicious mustard

A last look at the lake

May 27, 2015 Wednesday

1:49pm
Vacation step #9

2:21pm
Salad bar extraordinaire @Warren’s Lobster House, Kittery Maine

4:17pm
Lake Winnipesaukee views

4:52pm
Vacation step #10

5:56pm
Hiya kid! I’m at the lake!  Heading to lobster and thinking of you.

6:41pm Phil
Cool! Enjoy!

7:16pm

Eating lobster in a thunderstorm in Meredith, NH

May 26, 2015 Tuesday

8:21am
Good morning kid!

10:09am
Vacation step #8
Trying a different car wash.

12:00pm
Whoa… four jets just flew by low and tight. Whee!

4:11pm Phil
Hey girl! Hope your day was grand!
Enjoying some much needed Phil time. Having oysters and beer.

The wife goes out to lunch with her buddies, buys what ever she desires. Gave me, the one who makes the money, a hard time for wanting to get some oysters. I took her home and left her there!

4:15pm
Awww….

4:20pm Phil
She’s ok most of the time but sometimes, I just get enough and the best thing I can do is take a time out. Be different if she earned anything and did not spend like it was water. I keep hoping that will change but like my kids, she takes everything for granted. I’m just the money pony. Work him till he drops and then live off the benefits and insurance

4:24pm
I think it’s wise to get away when your patience ebbs.

I’m sorry they make you think that… you are so much more!

4:31pm
You know if I was there I’d smile at you.

4:52pm Phil
I know.
My kid is mad cause I won’t give her a house. I could just smack her but I won’t.

4:52pm
Geesh.
You know that’s nuts right? No one does that!

4:54pm Phil
Uh yeah.  I already let her live there way under the market price, pay all the fees, pay the taxes and do all repairs

5:00pm
You are better to them than anyone I know.

5:10pm
Where are you? Can you see water?

5:21pm Phil
Nah, just traffic

5:21pm
Ah

5:23pm
New product alert! These Cookie Chips jumped into my cart at RiteAid yesterday. They are a cross between a cookie and a potato chip… avoid unless you adore chocolaty crunchy deliciousness without artificial stuff!

May 25, 2015 Monday MEMORIAL DAY

9:11am
Blessings and dear remembrances. You always strike the perfect note in your reminder of the day.

9:48am Phil
Riding into the country to relax at a winery and listen to tunes. Beautiful 2 inch thick rib eyes marinating for dinner and I have tomorrow off!

9:50am
Sounds awesome! I get to have lunch with my niece. And spoil her. : )

I wish I could spoil you…ride along the ocean, feed you lobster!

9:53am Phil
Nice!

9:59am

11:48 am
May our remembrance and gratitude be a blessing this Memorial Day. Every year, the Massachusetts Military Heroes organization plants a Garden of Flags – 37,000 of them – in front of the Soldiers and Sailors Monument on Boston Common to commemorate each of the Massachusetts service members who have given his or her lives to defend the United States and our freedom since the Revolutionary War.

12:33pm
Having lunch with my niece in the park.  Her parents never take her to McDonald’s, so she always asks me to take her!  We had fun on on the swing and jungle gym.  She is such an athlete!

5:46pm
Vacation Step #6
Dinner at Asian Gourmet, Concord

May 23, 2015 Saturday

8:05am

11:46am
Happy Saturday! You home?

12:43pm Phil
Yup! Got the kid and heading to wineries

12:51pm
Yay! I’m out for lunch with Mom

8:06pm
Vacation step #5
Getting the food that expired in 2012 out of the freezer. I will spare you any photos!

May 22, 2015 Friday

8:12am
Tgif kid!

8:44am Phil
Woooooooooooooooooooooooo as the Nature Boy would say

8:58am

8:59am
You headed home today?

9:35am Phil
Tonight

9:44am
Saw the first Irises

10:08am Phil
Cool, my favorite

3:06pm
Another work lunch at Grafton Street Grill

 Mexican cheese corn

 Clam chowder

4:08pm
Vacation step 1 – Manicure! This color is called “Thrill from Brazil” by OPI.  Heh.

5:03pm
I’m on vacation! 9 days!

6:13pm Phil
Woo Hooo!

Going any where?

6:15pm
Dunno. Haven’t had the brain to plan.
Hope to figure out day trips or something.

I’m getting a massage in two minutes.  Found a Groupon.  🙂

7:32pm Phil
enjoy!

7:32pm
Vacation step #2 – relaxation massage with oils

May 19, 2015 Tuesday

5:33am

Mount St. Helens, 35 years ago, May 18, 1980, 8:35 AM. We had to get out of there!
https://www.facebook.com/USGSVolcanoes/posts/1050523784976182

5:44pm
First time @Hops N Scotch, Inman Square, Cambridge