We went up to Casco yesterday for the house inspection. There are four or five minor points and one more thing to get looked at professionally, plus radon tests to be done, plus the septic system inspection.
There’s a gorgeous view of (snow-capped, as of two weekends ago) Mount Washington from about two miles before you get to the house.
We went over to Bridgton, about 18 miles away, to walk around downtown. My agenda included looking for a book on Maine mittens, Fox & Geese & Fences, which I had had out of the library recently. It seems to be out of print, but the same author, Robin Hansen, has put together lots of the patterns from it, plus other patterns from another out-of-print book of hers, in Favorite Mittens. Down Home & Company, a tiny but lovely yarn and spinning shop in Bridgton, had a copy which we bought. In Bridgton Books we found a book of old photos of the towns around Lake Sebago, part of the Images of America series. We went into a place that called itself a diner for coffee and pudding, tapioca for Arlene, grape nuts custard for me.
We came home by the more scenic, or at least less built up route, down route 117 from Denmark through towns like Hiram, Standish, and Limington, out to the Maine Turnpike at Kennebunk (non-New Englanders, that’s ken-ee-bunk, not ken-uh-bunk)