Our first night we had sammiches for supper – bread and Nueske’s smoked turkey from the fancy grocery store in Fish Creek, tomatoes & cucumbers from my CSA box, brought from home – then we watched Gosford Park on VHS tape.
Thursday morning we weren’t sure of the weather, so we went out seeking coffee and wifi. We stopped at the library to find out its hours, because I tried calling the night before, only to find that they don’t have an answering machine – but we’ve since made such good use of the place, my irritation over that lameness of theirs has passed. There were lots of cars when we arrived, around 9:20, and sure enough, they were open 9 – 1:00. So we went in, got some work done, and checked the weather. I even used my SCLS card to get a library card, and we checked out a stack of DVDs to augment the cabin video library. We went and got coffee at Red Cup, and bread at the new bread place attached. We took everything home and since it had turned into a sunny day, we set out on bikes. We hoped to visit the farmers market; somehow I thought the hours were noon to five but in fact it was 10:00 – 2:00. There was nothing on sale except for a lady from Illinois with earrings, and at first we thought we’d missed out. The earring lady assured us that there’s just nothing ready yet, vegetable-wise. There were still two feet of snow on the ground here in May.
So we biked to School House Beach, the smooth rock beach, and then the grocery store, to get what we couldn’t get at the market, and treated ourselves to Albatross chili cheese fries and a shake.
chili cheese fries at Albatross
We took the scenic route home, past the Washington Hotel – closed but accepted offer – and had an all bread dinner – pizza on the flat bread we got from the bread place, and zucchini butter on the ciabatta.
Zucchini butter
We watched a P.D. James/BBC Inspector Dalgleish, one of our checked out DVDs from the library. It was pretty grim, so to counteract it, we watched episode 1, season 3 of Downton Abbey, also from the library – the one where Mary and Matthew get married.
Friday morning it was pouring. I came down and made coffee and we just stayed in bed reading and drinking coffee and listening to the rain until almost 10:00. Then we headed out to Red Cup, and had just discovered that they do have wifi this year (well sort of, more on that in a minute) when the power went out. So we just kind of hung out and read and waited for the electricity to come back, killing time till the library opened at 1:00.
We got sandwiches at the Danish Mill, and then headed to the library. We worked until about 3:30 – our last chance because they’re closed now until after Labor Day. Then we did a little car touristing – visited the TWO lavender farms on the Island. We’re betting that the one with the really nice rent-able ballroom that can seat 200 will survive longer.
My sammich at Danish Mill
Mark’s – umbrella on the side
On Terese’s advice – via the log book – we decided to have dinner at Sailor’s Pub. We got there a little after 7:00 and had to wait a bit for a table, sitting at the bar. We watched one of the waitresses trying to make a mojito – offering lots of suggestions. She had to do it over, but the 2nd time the customer liked it just fine. We both got the special – perch and crab cake, with baked potatoes, and we decided to pay the extra for salads. Mark got a Caesar, and I got the house. They had a sweet wasabi sauce as well as tarter for the fish. It was all really good – and we brought home a to-go box of fish for a fish sandwich later. (We made fish tacos – see the next post). We were home in time for 2 episodes of Downtown Abbey.
There was enough cell connection to send this shot to Rach.
On Saturday morning it was raining again. We hung around the house, and I made a peach and cherry jam cake, with the two Door County peaches I bought in Madison and brought back here, and the Seaquist cherry jam we bought here at the little grocery on the Island.
Peach & cherry jam cake
We thought about biking, but decided to drive to Red Cup, and a good thing too – it got rainier and rainier. We put gas in the car, and then got coffee, and again just hung out. We decided to stop into the book store next door. That’s when Mark discovered that the wifi we were picking up at Red Cup is actually from the book store. A little bit just seeps over to the coffee place. The book store lady was having trouble ringing up a sale, and Mark gave her some advice on how to make her connection overide the freeloaders over at Red Cup
We did a little more car touristing – drove down a bunch of roads that dead ended at the lake, looked at fancy houses, and figured out where Gibson’s is, and the Sunset Resort, that serves breakfast.
The plan for tonight is pasta for dinner and movie night – we are eschewing Fish Boil. I made some salsa with canned jalapeños, fresh tomatoes, onions, and cilantro, that came in kind of a funny packaged bunch at the little grocery store – washed and made into a bundle of sprigs in a meat tray with saran over all.
Pasta pesto with garlic bread & salad
Bought and home made salsa
Sunday, our last full day, is supposed to be sunny and nice. I’m hoping to bike out for breakfast and then take the ferry to Rock Island.
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