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Interesting day. I thought I was going to get home and Do Chores, but chores have been bumped to tomorrow morning.

Old Orchard Beach was full of heavy equipment and work crews frantically Getting Stuff Ready, and I was somewhat bummed, because there was no place to put a Subaru Forester even on the sidest of side streets.

I therefore betook myself to Pine Point, where I wandered around, took some pictures, and made notes on That Thought I had the other day. Then, as I was heading back toward OOB, with Camp Ellis in my eye, when I realized that the Pine Point Beach Parking Lot had cars in it.

Now, I have only once before been on the Pine Point Beach, because � (1) it’s for Townies. If you live in Scarborough and have a sticker, you can enjoy the public beach free of charge. If you from Away, lately you can pay a (hefty) fee to park, which never made sense, because (2) parking at OOB had until lately been reasonable.

However, it looked like Mainers Free Season was in force, given the cars in the lot and the fact that the gate was off (not up � OFF), so I pulled in, walked over to the autopay robot, pressed the button that activated it and was greeted by the cheerful information that This Device is Currently Deactivated, which meant that I had my lovely walk on the beach, after all, and got to see the back end of Pine Point Harbor.

After my walk, I went to Camp Ellis, then to Saco, where I shopped at Reny’s (Number Two in my passport booklet), scoring one of the most brilliant things I’ve seen in a while. Some of you will recall that I was looking for a deck umbrella, under which I might lounge and consider the lawn on sunny days. I did not today acquire a deck umbrella, but I *did* acquire a folding chair with its own sun hood. This? Will do. And I don’t have to worry about high winds, or how I’m going be slugging tons of sand from hither to yon, or if the crank will break.

A real score, that chair.

After Saco, I drove down to Wells, stopped at the Borealis store and took on bread, rolls, and lunch (ham and cheddar on olive bread, which was delicious and HUGE, so the second half will be dinner). I walked on Wells Beach � that’s where the previous picture was taken � then went back to town and stopped at Reny’s (Number Three in my passport booklet), where I bought a citronella candle so I can maybe outwit some mosquitos while I’m sitting out under my cool, self-shaded chair, and some twine/rope, but no eyelets, since they had none. Perhaps there are eyelets at the bottom of Steve’s tool box. I shall Conduct a Search. But not today.

After all that � I came home, stopping at Hannaford for a couple more things than I thought I was stopping for.

I came home to a notification from my insurance company saying that they need Fourteen More Days (I’ve already given them 60, mind you) to decide the knotty question of if they can still make me pay for something they told me they would cover. I can see their problem, man. Nine large is a considerable sum of money.

Pictures below, including the clump of daffodils I came home to.

So! How’s everybody doing?