Saturday, January 9, 2010

LL Bean is a great resource!

We had some last-minute things to get from our place on Orr's Island, including one of the binoculars we use on the boat that has an image-stabilizer feature. I'm figuring at the distance we may be from the beasties, the amount of magnification may make image stabilization handy. I needed to replace my aged boat shoes (the universal footware), so we stopped at Bean's (shoes on sale) in Freeport. One of our duffle bags had lost a handle on one of Emily's soujourns to the Balkans, so we took it in and got a replacement gratis. This is a great service, and truly appreciated. In the sale bins by the front door were: mosquito netting and spray bug repellant, and later we picked up little book-reading lights (compact, LCD bulbs), all meant to enhance comfort on the plane and in the Penn Housing, which we are told have suboptimal reading light. Post-holiday shopping is great!
We are winding down to departure...lists still incompletely fulfilled, but we'll get there. We took a breather this afternoon and took in the HD version of the Met production of Der Rosenkavalier, which was very beautiful and energetically and artistically performed. The lists will be revisited tomorrow.

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