Onward into summer! in Tea at the Cabin in the Woods

This will be short(ish) since I only have ten minutes. Classes are over, faculty summit is done and hubby and I escaped for a week to Block Island, RI. It was still off season and we found it to be a very sleepy town. So, we walked, and walked and walked about 2 - 3 hours each day covering almost the entire island in the week there. It was a forced relaxed week with limited access to internet, no good phone service and the place we stayed was, well, less than what we are accustomed. Not that we are snobs, but we have stayed in some very nice places over the years. This did not happen to be one of them.

When we checked in the front office lady was VERY chatty, I think we learned her entire life story before we got the keys. We went to our unit and there was no bed, old mismatched paneling on the walls, a sofa that the seat cushions were flattened and the “Sleeper” beneath the cushions had broken springs. We noticed some handles high up on the wall of an open area in the room and pulled them to expose a Murphy bed. The small kitchen had a toy stove, much like the one I had in my little apartment a few years ago (long time readers will remember that), a 3/4 sized fridge and cabinets WAY UP high to where I could only reach the bottom shelf. At 5‘3” I would have liked to have reached the glasses without asking hubby for help. Everything was worn out, old and tattered. BUT on the bright side, it was clean. There was a TV with a few channels and a VCR/DVD player. The place had a “lounge” with a library of VHS tapes, a couple games and one puzzle available for guests.

The bathroom was in dire need of re-grouting and the ceiling’s recessed lighting had been replaced by newer lights which did not fit the original space and had yet to filled in, leaving gaping wholes in ceilings. The walls were paper thin, allowing you to overhear everyone else’s conversations. But, it was clean. Even the window sills were clean of dust and dirt between the screens and the stash. I did not find any dirt or cobwebs, dust bunnies - nothing. That was a HUGE relief since everything else left much to be desired.

Watching old movies that we hadn’t seen in years, decades in some cases, was fun, in that you don’t always remember all the details or who was in them and it’s a nice surprise to see some of the actors in their younger, early career roles. We watched the Blues Brothers and had forgotten that John Candy and Henry Gibson had roles in the movie. We also watched, An American President and saw many actors who are now pretty busy. Strange how much we don’t recall and how much of these films have been cut for viewing on T.V.

Well, I need to get going. Have to see the lawyer about transferring the deed to a house to someone else, how to set up a trust for the grand-baby that is due in 2 weeks and what the tax implications are for doing all this… yeah for us!