T Stands for Last Week

 Hi everyone. It's already time for T again.  And it is hard to believe it's August (or if you read this Monday night it is just hours away from August).   It used to be ( for me) that August first always meant the countdown to going back to school. Being retired, I am happy that the first of August doesn't mean that the end of the summer is looming just a few weeks away. 😏

Last week was busy but also a good summer week. First of all I was very excited as I actually got back to Pop's for dinner one night. I haven't been there since May and before we went to Iceland. We did try to go a couple of times in July, but both times the line was so long we decided to skip it. We went last Thursday night, which we hoped would mean a shorter line since it wasn't the weekend and since the sky looked rather ominous. We hoped those 2 things would keep people away. And happily, the line was shorter, with only 1 family in front of us.

But just as our food came out, the sky opened up and it poured. Luckily we had ordered our food to go, and the hubby had already gone back to get the car so he could pick me up right up front. The food stayed dry, but I was drenched by the time I ran the 10 feet across the parking lot and slid into the front passenger seat.

It was worth being wet though because I had one of the best lobster rolls.

I don't like that Pop's went over to these plastic food containers for lobster rolls, but on the other hand, it did keep my sandwich dry while I ran to the car. If you look carefully you can see water droplets on the top of the plastic container.

The rain didn't last too long, so by the time we finished eating it had stopped. Where the clouds were moving out the sky had this strange color. Yet we did have a rainbow, even if the sky color somewhat overpowers it in this direction.

And when I looked west, you could see the sky really clearing. No strange colored sky there.

A few minutes later the sky color had changed again.

We could see the other half of the rainbow as we started driving home.

Also last week my friend from North Carolina was up visiting. We went out to Cisco Brewery in Portsmouth one day for lunch.  That's where my drink for T this week is from. I am linking this photo up to Bleubeard's and Elizabeth's blog for this week's T day.

I did not have the whale's tail pale ale like the glass says, but I had a strawberry lemonade beer. It was very refreshing, and it had an interesting taste. It was great seeing my friend, and we talked about doing another weekend getaway at some point.

In between all the busyness I also enjoyed some summer  downtime last week.  Finally by Friday my new hammock could get some use. 😀

I hope everyone has a great start to August. And a happy T day too.