Friday was a really relaxing day. I got to use Sue and Andy's computer to work on my blog without the one hour time limit imposed by most libraries and posted hundreds of pictures on my Facebook. Sue and I rode around town on our bikes in a very casual sort of way, which I must admit was a nice change of pace for me. Later we had a sort of wine and cheese party with the neighbors. The story goes that the husband's friend wrote American Pie, and one of the characters was written based on him! Dinner was spaghetti with a homemade sauce, courtesy of Sue.
Saturday was the day that hurricane Sandy came through. When I woke up and looked outside, I saw that my bike had blown onto its side and rain was getting all over my newly cleaned chain now that the cover Andy let me borrow was no longer where it was supposed to be. I had forgotten to re-lube it though, and the amount of rust that had already formed on it was alarming. I brought it on board and spent the next hour or so drying everything off and painstakingly buffing the rust out of the nooks and crannies of all the links with the corner of a rag. Afterwards I made sure to apply a lot of lube and hoped for the best.
It was rainy and gross the whole day, and so we went to the movies! The Cinnebarre Theater in Mount Pleasant has a motto: Eat, Drink, Watch Movies. They actually have a bar in the lobby where you can get a beer or a glass of wine, and there are menus in the theater on long bench-like tables in front of every row of seats with rolls of paper towels hanging underneath. We watched Cloud Atlas, which was way too long, and rather confusing. I pretty much decided it was before my time and that I should read the book before attempting to watch it again in a year or two.
We went to dinner with some different neighbors (whose boat I got to help tie up a little better because of the strong winds), and were treated to tasty garlic bread and some homemade chicken and white bean chilli. We had gone to Bottles beforehand, which is a big wine store, so that I could pick up a bottle or two that I would like, and I also made some chocolate covered strawberries and bananas for desert. It was a very nice day despite the weather, although the bumpers and ropes creaking in the night was a little distracting.
Sunday was a beautiful day, as the day after a hurricane usually is. Sue and Andy took me to see their house-in-progress, which is practically right on the beach. There is a skinny strip of golf course that runs between them and the ocean, with a boardwalk leading right to the beach only a few feet away. There is a little lagoon on the other side of the street in front, were we saw 3 kinds of water birds and a turtle, and there was a sign warning people not to feed the alligators. A bike path snaked alongside the road in for nearly the whole way. All in all, I thought it was a very relaxing place to retire. The house itself is going to be 4 stories, and the studs had just been put up for the first floor above the garage. I had never been in a half-completed house like this, and it was cool to see them proudly and excitedly tell me what room was going to be what, and look at the gorgeous view through what is going to be a large window.
Sue and I took a little walk on the beach, where there was a lot of dead straw-like sea grass washed up everywhere, and a little mini cliff right by the dunes created from the erosion of 6-8 inches of sand. We found several dead and empty horseshoe crab exoskeletons, a few unusual shells, and I even found one of the funny little quickly-burrowing clams that live right were the waves are constantly washing over the beach that I love to play with to show Sue.
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