Last Day Of Vacation

And I haven't done anything. . .accept have FUN. Oh well, I think I'm just expecting to much of myself. I am human after all. It's nice to have more then one whole day off a week.I have gone to Carpentria twice, and seen The Time Traveler's Wife. Carpentria is great. So beautiful. We walked around and looked at houses, and took a tour of the salt marsh, at least part of it. I learned so many new things about plants! There were two plants that specialized in living with salt. The first, oak something separated the salt out, and deposited it on the leafs. The other , the pickle bush shoved the salt upwards into fat twig things and when there was enough, the red tip filled with salt just snaps off. Also there was a plant, I can not remember these names, that a wasp used for reproduction. It would lay a single egg on the underside of the leaf, and the leaf would form a ruby red "gall" around it , like a clam forming a pearl around a bit of grit, that if I hadn't been informed would have thought was some kind of weird berry.

There was one house,a two story job, that was just like an English thatched cottage, accept of course, no thatching. It was wider at the base then at the top, and had the deep set windows. If I ever won the lottery, I would build something like that. Carpentria must be a very safe place to live. There is no sign of tagging that I could see. A lot of house had stuff out that was very stealable, but apparently it's all a good neighborhood. One house, right on the beach, had stained glass lawn lights. BF's right, if we won the lottery, we would live in this area.

The flea market was fun, although it seemed to have mostly commercial dealers. But not all, I bought a cobalt vase for a dollar from a guy who was selling his own stuff. He said the vase had come from Ecuador.I talked BF into buying a antique portable typewriter. It came in a case. The typewriter was around a foot wide, and it was 1940's or before.She has always had an interest in this, and I though she should start getting on with that collection.

I spent more money on food than on buying stuff. Less then 12 dollars on stuff. I spent at least 30 dollars on food there. Strange, would have thought the reverse. But, the food was very good, and I discovered bagels with cream cheese with cucumbers and tomatoes and lemon salt on them! I have duplicated this at home and have eaten nothing else since then.