For breakfast this morning, I had a leftover crabcake from dinner last night. Flattened and lightly pan seared it on both side. Soft-poached a couple of eggs and put them over the cake. Then topped with a "Hollandaise sauce" made from leftover cream of crab soup from yesterday's lunch. Incredibly delicious.
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| May not look very appetizing, but I assure you it was scrumptious. |
To back up, I had a productive day after I left off with the yesterday's blog entry. I wrote and distributed the July newsletter to my Rockford watch club constituents. Kayla had a coworker here to work on a joint project. They both work for a company that deals in medical IT (information technology) and they both work from home, but today they were working together here on a project. We were all on our computers, so it was like a home version of Starbucks.
At around 12:30, I drove to downtown Manchester (blink and you'll miss it) to a restaurant called Bobcat Creamery. This place is neat on a couple of levels. First, the food was good and portions were generous. I had a steak sandwich on pretzel roll, and a generous cup of creamy crab soup, $11. Second, it is run by a board of directors comprised chiefly of kids from area high schools, many of whom also work at the restaurant. The kids work under the direction of the restaurant owners, but they get to participate in many of business decisions. This as a community project and it seems to have been warmly received by area schools and local leaders. I reviewed in Tripadvisor here if you want to read.
I returned to the house and fiddled on the computer a while longer, then took a nap. At around 6:15 p.m., I drove to the Wingate motel in York to hook up with a watch buddy, Keith Yarbrough, from Dalton, Ga., for dinner and watch talk. His wife, Sheila, joined us, and we drove to the "Around the Clock Diner" which is on U.S. Highway 30, also called Arsenal Road as it passes through York. I had the 2-cake portion of the broiled crabcakes, with potato salad and 4-bean salad as my sides. I saved one of the cakes for breakfast this a.m. I had Boston cream pie and coffee for dessert. All very yummy, and Keith picked up the tab while I kicked in the gratuity. It was all delicious, and the crabcakes were made with lump crab, not the cheaper stringy snow crab.
The company was delightful. Keith and Sheila just celebrated their 35th wedding anniversary. They stayed at the Milton Hershey Hotel prior to coming here. They told me all about the hotel/spa/resort, and I'll have to put it on my list of places to go. I've been to Hershey before, and "Hershyland," but never to the hotel. Sheila had never been to this part of the country, so she decided to join Keith for the annual convention here. Keith is one those guys I know that I wish were closer to me than Dalton, Ga. He is not only a knowledgeable watch enthusiast, but just a fine, well rounded human being. I think we could almost have a mentor/apprenticeship type of relationship but for the distance between us. We just "click." Keith is thinking of retiring from 28 years with an insurance company and was asking my advice about the various facets of retirement based on my experience with it since leaving my last "real" job in 1991. Anyway, we were at the restaurant almost two hours, and the time flew by.
Got back to the house around 9 p.m. Kayla offered me the garage for the Malibu for the duration of my stay, but the car wouldn't fit lengthwise into the garage because she has stuff taking up room in the front of the garage. She has a compact car, so it fits. But no on the Malibu, so I parked it in the driveway.
I watched a couple of Seinfeld episodes, then went to bed.
Today, I have goings-on at NAWCC HQ, including picking up my registration packet starting at 1 p.m. There is a museum tour 4 to 4:45 p.m. in which I want to participate, focusing on early wrist chronographs. Then a reception in the atrium 4:45 to 6 p.m. which I have paid the whopping sum of $5 to attend. I think it has corporate sponsorship, so there will likely be a commercial in there somewhere. Then at 6:30, the association's Library and Research Center is being renamed in honor of a benefactor (living) who has probably donated in the tens of thousands of dollars in acquisitions and various projects to the library over the last 20 years. There will be speeches and presentations and what not. After that, friends Nancy Dyer and partner Al Dodson and I are off to a crabhouse in Wrightsville for a late dinner. (The dedication is scheduled to go until 8 p.m.)
So that brings you all up to date. Having a nice time here so far.
Bruce
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