Take A Walk With Us: Sunday Drivers

Out Of Office

Happy Monday all.

As suspected, I worked at my desk a lot of the weekend. This is all good, except by the time Sunday rolls around and I've been at my desk, in my home office/studio all week, I need to get the heck away from it.

So, yesterday, after spending a couple of hours at my desk in the morning, I asked G to take me for a ride. I didn't care where, just needed to get out and about anywhere.

We hit the road and headed south.  We drove down into Massachusetts driving through Newburyport, Newbury, Rowley and beyond.  Then we made a loop back towards Newburyport and made our way out to Plum Island, which is right on the coast and has a lot of marshland.  The sun was shining, and making the water sparkle like floating diamonds.

When we left, the sun was shining. Then withing 5 minutes clouds started to roll in. It was a real fight between the sun and the clouds, producing a weird hazy like glow at some points.

By the time we headed back north, the sun was winning out again.

When we got to Hampton, my hometown, the sun was almost winning out again.

It felt great to get out of the house and office.

Beyond that, the weekend included some pulled pork that I cooked in the crock pot (yum).  We also watched a couple of hockey games. Our Boston Bruins are on a serious win streak. 12 games in a row.  Best so far of any team this season. Tonight, we meet our rivals, the Montreal Canadiens.  Ah!  So, beyond always wanting to win against the Habs, I really want the Bs to win tonight to continue their win streak. I'll be holding my breath.

We did a little youtubing- oh yes, we did some happy dancing in honor of World Happy Day last Friday, and we watched lots of funny stuff that had us cracking up.  We also skyped with my best friend Tina in Cork. 

That pretty much sums up our weekend. What happened in your corner of the world?

By the way, just thought I'd mention that today is March 24th. It is spring. It is also currently 21F.

What the heck is with that?

Thankfully, the fire is going. However, we are getting a wee bit sick of hauling wood. Then again, at least we have wood to haul.

That's our story and we're sticking to it.

Have a great Monday.

Ciao for now,

Weekend Drive

To The Beach and Back

I asked and G obliged. He took me for a Sunday drive followed by brunch. Love that.

He headed to my hometown, Hampton and a drive along the beach. Surprisingly for such a beautiful day, the boulevard wasn't too bad.

The sand however, was covered with umbrellas, beach blankets and people.

The salt water marsh was pretty under a bright blue sky dotted with puffy clouds.

We started on the beach side of the marsh and ended up on the west side looking towards the beach, before heading to The 401 Tavern for some nourishment.

We like the old tavern part of The 401 so we bellied up to the bar. 

We did not have whisky with brunch, it just happened to be where we were sitting. However, we did enjoy a beer (G) and bloody mary (me) with our meal.

He went for the manly grilled pork chop and I had my old standby- cheese omelette, which also had shrooms and bacon in it. Best part of the meal? We were using a gift certificate my parents gave us. Thanks Mom and Dad! Though, I'll say this......it was quieter than usual because our pal Desi (aka The Mad Cuban) wasn't around.

Then we followed this guy and his passenger back out of town. What a great rig and beautiful day for a ride.

The rest of our weekend was pretty low key. A couple of campfires, chatting with the neighbors, weeding the garden, pooltime. What about you? Did you do anything special?

Have a great Monday.

Ciao for now,