Food for Thought

I had thoroughly checked out Monhegan Island on the web (I thought) so when we set sail all we took with us to eat was a couple of snacks.  According to the research I had done, there were a couple of restaurants open and a couple of stores that sold groceries.  We arrived on the island with our Cheezits and snackmix to find only a small store called "Carina" open for business!  Our Tribler Cottage Apartment had all the facilities to cook but I really don't care for fried Cheezits!  "Carina" had a deli and made clam chowder so we did eat there but we knew we would need to fix a couple of meals at our apartment.  So...we put together a grocery list and went shopping!

Please realize that everything has to be shipped by boat to the island so there is a CONSIDERABLE markup!

1 red apple - $1.25

Small jar (8 oz.) peanut butter - $4.25

Loaf of bread - $4.00

This isn't all we got but it was over $25 for our small bag!  Carina Grocery

It was cool to cold on the island so when we FINALLY got our apartment warmed up we cooked up a real good supper.  Our apartment, The "Bayberry" was quaint but nice.  It was a storm-weathered old house with uneven floors, a cluttered but comfortable common room and the owners apartment on the top level.  It seemed that everyone on the island was used to the cold because every place we went in was chilly!  Needless to say, our little gas heater ran full blast for two days! Tribler Cottage

I loved our stay on Monhegan...although for Tami's sake I wished it was warm and sunny.  I guess my natural bent toward melancholy and reading lots of books about the sea made me right at home in the surroundings.  "In our land the works of the Lord are not obscured by what the hands of men have made....Rock and waste of sea and the high sweep of the sky - winds and rain and sunlight and flying clouds - great hills, mysterious distances, flaming sunsets, the still, vast darkness of night! These are the mighty works of the Lord, and of none other - unspoiled and unobscured.  In them He proclaims Himself. They who have not known before that the heavens and the earth are the handiwork of God, here discover it: and perceive the Presence and the Power, and are ashamed and overawed." Norman Duncan - "Doctor Luke of the Labrador"

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