A Salty Pause
My kitchen project was paused today; I made it salty by going to the beach!
Work began last week on the kitchen renovation I started planning with a designer in January. Today was delivery day for some of the new cabinets. When he left at 11 am, the driver said he thought he’d be making a second trip today but it was not to be the case, as I learned via email from the big boss a little after 2 pm.
Monday on Tybee during the season is Farmer’s Market Day. I haven’t gone as often as I thought I would, nor have I had many “sit-on-the-beach” days. Beach walks, yes; sitting with a book, no. With my afternoon freed, I could hit both the beach and the market!
The book I brought with me was the printed first half of the first draft of the second book in the Lighthouse Island series. As you can see, the working book title is Salty Paws, because originally it was going to be about a group of friends starting a dog rescue facility. But subplots involving the land where the facility would be built took over, and it became about something else entirely. I’d been brainstorming a new name. “Salty Pause” (like the name of this post) came to me today, because the facility-building gets paused when a land dispute arises and potential historic artifacts are found.
After an hour on the beach, without moving my car, I went to the Farmer’s & Artisan’s Market. It’s on the lighthouse grounds, adjacent to what I call our “first Tybee house,” where we stayed for a week on vacation in October 2014. I could see towels on the railing outside the floor where most of the bedrooms are.
I saw an intriguing sign for peaches on the way into the market and meant to stop on my way out to be like Justin Bieber and get some (this IS the Peach State!), but I forgot. Next week!
I don’t cook much for myself, and with a kitchen renovation underway I’m cooking even less. I hoped to find dinner at the market today and scored with a Greek food vendor!
Gyro & Spanikopita - νόστιμο (delicious!)
On the way back to my car, I stopped to read two signs about the Tybee Island Wade-Ins, a series of civil rights actions in the 1960s being commemorated this week in conjunction with Juneteenth.
Tomorrow it’s back to standing by to answer construction questions (if any come up) and keeping the dog out of the way. Today was a nice break!