2024 Life Logs, Day 365: Day Trip to New Hampshire
Date: Monday, December 30, 2024
Weather: Pouring Rain Early, Then Drizzle; Temp 53, Low 39 degrees F in Falmouth
Location: At Home on Lakeview Avenue with My Shadow, Falmouth, MA
Today I drove to the Portsmouth, New Hampshire area, to have a nice, long, relaxed lunch with friend Peppe Christianson. She will fly home to the West Coast on New Year’s Day and our get together on my way home from Maine last Friday was just not long enough. Today we had planned to have lunch and then go for a seaside walk, but somehow we managed to spent four hours talking and having lunch, leaving no time for a walk. We met at the Wentworth by the Sea Hotel on New Castle Island near Portsmouth. The Wentworth was a Gilded Age grand hotel that survived until 1982 before its doors were finally shut. Then in the mid 1990’s it was listed as one of America’s most endangered old hotels. The notoriety around that listing saved it, or at least the part of it that was left, and it was totally restored. It is a lovely place to meet, eat, and talk away the afternoon. Peppe treated me to lunch, which was delicious. Thank you, Peppe. I look forward to our next meeting.
Tonight, I talked to my son Justin. I knew Coco was sick on Christmas Day, but tonight I found out that everyone in the family now has whatever Coco has. She still has a bit of a fever but is feeling a bit better. Hopefully by New Year’s Day the whole gang will be better. And after I had a late dinner, I talked to another close friend, Lynne Kirwin, in New Zealand. We managed to talk away the rest of the evening. It is New Year’s Eve there, so we finally had to hang up so she could join a few friends to celebrate. Happy New Year to Lynne.
