A wonderful guest

For those of you who already follow Knottyboy's blog, it will come as no surprise for me to say he's wonderful. Smart, funny, handsome and sweet, he's really terrific.

For the past day, he's been here, and we've been loving our time with him. He came out here to our little island yesterday morning and put up with us for a full day. We just dropped him at the train station, and we were very sorry to see him go. He's as wonderful as we thought he'd be, based on his blog and our many e-mails and telephone conversations.

We took him out to the east end of the Island. We didn't give him the grand tour that we do for many first-time visitors, but we hit some of the high points. We had lunch at a kitschy little diner we like in Aquebogue called the Modern Snack Bar. Here we see Marc and Wayne barely tolerating my wanting a photo of them in front of the place...



The food there is classic comfort food. After this, with our bellies suitably prepared, we stopped at Pindar Vineyards in Peconic and indulged in a nice round of wine tasting.

Then we went to Greenport and caught the ferry to Shelter Island. We saw some dead people (or at least their graves) and then headed through the rest of the island and caught the ferry over to the south fork and started heading back.

Eventually, we made our way back to Merrick, where we picked up Byrne (another wonderful houseguest, although he didn't stay over this time), and then we headed home.

Marc made panini sandwiches for dinner. We have a new panini maker, and he was dying to use it. We also had more to drink (we're such lushes!) and spent some of our time in front of a lovely fire I built in our fireplace.

At the end of the night, I drove Byrne back to the train (not to worry, I was sober) and then we called it a night.

This morning, Marc made us pumpkin pancakes, we sat around in the sunroom for a bit, and then we had to take Knotty back to the train. It was sad to see him go, knowing it's likely to be a while before we see him again.

Now it's time to go do some other things. So we're off to the framing shop with some photos. I hope everyone has a lovely weekend!