July 13-14                      Southwest Harbor

We rose early to have breakfast at the Sea Biscuit Café, a charming place with a menu focusing on local Maine home cooking.  David and I enjoyed excellent omelets and local sausage.  With charming ambiance, great service, wonderful food, and reasonable prices, this little café, serving only breakfast and lunch, is popular with locals and visitors.  We plan to return with our guests who will come in August.

We were delighted to learn we were once again in time for the annual Flamingo Days Parade.  It is a fun occasion with floats, classic cars, and musical groups.  All are bedecked with pink plastic or feathered flamingoes, pink balloons, and festive decorations.  It is a great occasion for local communities to show their magnificent and massive fire engines and a wonderful celebration of small-town American life at its best!

The charming Southwest Harbor Library was again having their annual book sale.  I spent an hour perusing the many volumes on display and carried back to the boat ten books for me, three for Winn, and two for Dave.  I found three Diane Mott Davidson mysteries I had not read.  Her books fall into the “fun stuff” category of reading—good stories with believable characters.

Sunday morning I bade farewell to David at 6:45 AM as he left by taxi for the airport.  He would fly to Boston and then on to Texas.  I would be alone on the boat for four days.  It would be a good time to do some cleaning, complete some projects, and read “fun stuff.”  Of course, he was immediately missed.