1. On the way home from his workout, Himself stopped at Harry's. I thought we were getting fish and chips because the Knights of Columbus weren't doing their fund raiser because of Good Friday services at the church. Himself got me a full belly plate (fried clams) as a surprise.
2. Easter Sunday was quiet with just the two of us as the Eldest had to work at the hospital. Good food (roast leg of lamb), Easter egg bread, hot cross buns and we watched another Holy movie.
3. The Young One received her Easter box. They both got a kick out of the plastic "eggs" shaped like game controllers.
4. The order I placed that said it would arrive on Friday, was delivered the day after I put the order in!
5. Teague found a new place for lunch. Mak's in Franklin with awesome roast beef sandwiches. We'll be going back because they serve breakfast all day!
2. The rest of the art supplies needed for the class arrived
3. I transferred the design and now I'm ready to add color
4.We are still watching Holy movies and enjoy the ones with Finlay Currie who keeps popping up in a bunch of them. Finlay Currie best know for his role as Balthasar in Ben Hur and Cedric, the father of Ivanhoe.
5. The weather was nice enough that Teague and I got to have tea in her sunroom
1. A little late but we celebrated the Boston Red Sox Opening Season with hot dogs, brown bread, and baked beans
2. Sad to hear of the passing of Richard Chamberlain. I called in sick to Filene's (department store) so I could watch the Hallmark Hall of Fame production of Hamlet 11/17/1970
3. I signed up for a Zentangle class. I thought Nan might be interested, and she signed up, too
4. I assembled tools needed for class and ordered a few things I did not have
5. For a treat I had some baklava. Not as good as Ma made, but sweet nostalgia
1. Evening television viewing still making our way through "holy" movies. Quo Vadis, Samson, and we found a series Moses, the Law Giver starring Burt Lancaster and Anthony Quayle
2. We went to the old people's discount shopping hours (8 am - 9 am) at Ocean State Job Lots to pick up a bunch of herbs and spices. I was surprised at the variety they had
3. The scruffy bunny came out in the afternoon to nibble the grass
4. A little device I have to help with hot and cold flashes stopped working after an iOS update. After some fiddling, I was able to find a troubleshooting solution that worked.
5. Even though it really wasn't quite warm enough for ice cream, Teague and I wen to Dairy Queen and had Blizzards for an afternoon treat during our weekly session.
1. I made beef stew in the crockpot and then watched "The Aristocats" because the kitten, Marie, looks like Calli and Himself had never seen this Disney feature before.
2. I looked for ways to boost the humidity level in the house. Besides using the humidifier, I went old-school and hung wash on a drying rack.
3. Ran an errand and then stopped for lunch at The Longhorn Steakhouse. No cooking!
4. I participated in a virtual sound bath run by the same facilitator that runs the Doodling for Stress Reduction class I take.
1. We delivered a few things to the Grandniece and Grandnephew that arrived after Christmas or that we forgot about
2. On the recommendation of a friend watched Godzilla Minus One
3. We received a sweet thank you card from the Grandniece and Grandnephew.
4.At the grocery store shared a laugh with Al, an elderly bagger. He said to Himself, didn't I see you in here yesterday? I said that's because he forgot something from the list. Al said he never went shopping with a list and when he got home his wife would say, That's not on the list. I said Himself would say right, it was on mine. He told me his wife had passed 10 years ago and he was going out for New Year's Eve with a group of church friends for the first time. He wished us a Happy New Year. We wished him the same and told him to have a good time.
5. I started a new Good Things Notebook for 2025. This will be my 11 year of keeping the Good Things Notebook.
We had a nice table overlooking the lake, and I had an Arnold Palmer (half lemonade and half iced tea)
Along with a fish sandwich and fries. Besides ketchup there was another sauce to dip sandwich and/or fries. It was delicious and took us a few minutes to figure out what is was. In Rhode Island, it's popular to have fries with Malt Vinegar. I could taste the vinegar, and then we figured out the other sweeter flavor. After all, where were we? In Maple Syrup country. The combination was fabulous.
Squam Lake/Little Squam Lake became famous because the movie On Golden Pond (1981) starring Katherine Hepburn, Henry Fonda, and Jane Fonda was filmed there. The boat filling station at the end of the dock is where Katherine Hepburn fills up the boat while her curmudgeon husband waits for the teen to fill the tank. She also returns to this spot to get help when her husband and their young guest don't return after a fishing expedition looking for an elusive trout named Walter.
Katherine Hepburn and Henry Fonda both won Oscars for their performances. Jane Fonda presented her father with his Oscar. He passed away a few months later.
On the way to the hotel I was very excited to see the restaurant Pop's Clam Shack made famous by our T Day Friend, Erika, from Bio Art Gal. The restaurant was closed on Monday and Tuesday so I was hoping to get there before we left for home.
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The week before Teague and I left for our last runaway trip of the Summer, I had been watching a bunch of Claude Rains movies on Tubi. He's probably best known for playing the title role in The Invisible Man and for his role as Captain Louis Renault in Casablanca starring Humphrey Bogart. I've loved his performances in a lot of movies Mr. Skeffinton, Now, Voyager, Here Comes Mr. Jordan, but I love him best as Prince John in The Adventures of Robin Hood
Rains has the most delicious voice especially when he's trying to beg forgiveness from his brother, King Richard the Lionheart. John pleads, "But Richard, Richard."
TCM Tribute to Claude Rains, narrated by Richard Chamberlain
If you don't know who he is, you've missed some seriously great acting and films. I got curious about him as I was watching these old movies so read his bio on IMDB.com and found that he had lived in New Hampshire not far from where we were going.
Teague had asked me if there was anything in particular I wanted to do. I told her I did, but it was a dumb trail. I think her brother coined the term dumb trail or they coined it together. A dumb trail thing is usually a tourist thing, that sounds like it will be lots of fun until you get there. And then underwhelming. This is it? Anyways, my dumb trail was only a half an hour north of where we would be staying. Could we head up that way. Sure. Teague's a good sport.
We stopped at a rest area on the way to New Hampshie. This cloud reminded me of the iconic New Hampshire emblem, The Old Man in the Mountain.
Some of the best times I've had with Teague involve a traipse through a cemetery and since we had time to kill before we could check in, we headed to Red Hill Cemetery on Bean Road in Moultonborough, New Hampshire so I could visit the grave of Claude Rains.
The cemetery is tiny and is in the middle of a residential area. We passed the entrance because it looked like a driveway in an empty lot. Turning around we overshot the entrance again and entered a very narrow entrance to another cemetery. Since the two cemeteries were close to each other, we thought maybe the roads would connect. Nope. And there was no exit. Teague masterfully backed her Moose onto the main road and we made our way to Red Hill Cemetery.
From pictures I had seen on Find A Grave, I knew the cemetery was small and the graves would be easy to find. The headstones were distinctive from the other monuments in the cemetery.
Claude is buried next to his 6th wife, Rosemary McGroarty Clark. She passed 3 years before he did.
Somewhere along the way, I read that Rains designed and wrote the epitaph on his gravestone. I imagine he selected the epitaph on his wife's headstone, too.
"When I am dead, my dearest,
Sing no sad songs for me"
When I Am Dead, My Dearest - Christina Rossetti
the inscription continues:
Father,
In thy gracious keeping.
Leave we now
Thy servant sleeping.
Claude Rains
1889 - 1967
"All things once,
Are things forever,
Soul once living,
Lives forever
In previous photos, visitors left small tokens of remembrance. There was a Wolfman doll (Rains played the father of Larry who became a werewolf in The Wolfman. Someone had left an Invisible Man figure. There were also flowers, a pumpkin. I was a little disappointed that these type of items had been cleared by the cemetery groundskeepers. Still Claude had some visitors before I got there. There were a few quarters, other coins, and some small stones. I left the roundish, white stone.
The end of the dumb trail turned out to be there was no exit from this cemetery either. There was an open gate at the far end, but then it looked to be someone's property. Nothing to be done about it so Teague turned the car around as quickly as she could, and we bid a fond adieu to Claude and Rosemary Rains.
Hey, Buddy? I found some references to Rains' home in Sandwich, New Hampshire: His house is located on Rt. 109 in nearby Sandwich, at the intersection of Little Pond Road and Wentworth Hill Road. We probably went by it or we were very close. Can we go see this, next time?
1. We met the new baby at the annual Family Gathering
2. I Skyped with the Young One at the Gathering so she could be apart of it, too.
3. Over an hour search for Calli, but she was no where to be found. I looked in all the places and called and called. I thought maybe she had gotten by me when I went outside to take a picture of the sunset. I went outside with a flashlight calling and calling. When I went back to the sunroom, she suddenly appeared like a little ghost. We have no idea where her new hidey-hole is
4. Tubi has some great offerings of old movies. I watched "Judgement at Nuremberg" with Spencer Tracy and Richard Widmark 💙and "Taras Bulba" with Yul Brynner and Tony Curtis
5. Tiggy messaged me on Facebook asking if a wee package arrived.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Chapter 3: Towels (narrated by Douglas Adams)
Towel Day celebrated on May 25 is an homage to Douglas Adams, the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Don't panic, but do you know where your towel is?
