I (ahem) finally finished the "Half Blood Prince (HBP)" tonight (saw the "Order of the Phoenix" this past weekend at the theater and started HBP on Sunday). Eagerly awaiting the UPS delivery on Saturday - I'm too lazy to battle crowds at the local Borders at Midnight on Friday night...Good thing the weather around southern Maine this weekend calls for scattered shower/thunderstorms! Good reading weather!!!
Here's some really clever Ikea hacks. This seems fitting after last Sunday's run to the closest Ikea from Maine (Stoughton, MA; which is only about a 2.5 hour drive from southern Maine). I gave my mother the Ikea catalogue a few weeks ago and she wanted to take a drive to furnish her summer home in down-east Maine). We had 4 of the warehouse push-carts filled, along with a shopping cart full of accessories. The 'ol suv was filled to the brim with assemble-it-yourself furniture. It was quite a sight! On the way back through Burlington off 128, I noticed a West Elm (gonna have to take another drive south shortly). We have very few resources for modern/contemporary furniture here in Maine.
Here's a good way to spend a work day: My team and I went out to Peaks Island (a 20 minute ferry ride from mainland Portland downtown) for lunch today. The weather was absolutely wonderful! Low 80's and sunny. These are the summer days in Maine that you wish you could bottle up and release come mid-February.
We ate at the Cockeyed Gull. Good crab cakes.
