T Stands for Food and Drink from Last Week

  Hi everyone.

It's time for T again over at   Bleubeard's and Elizabeth's blog. I'm sending a big hello to all the lovely ladies and anyone else who stops by this post.

Last week flew by as I was busy for a couple of days and feeling under the weather for another. One of those busy days I had to go to Maine for a doctor's appointment. The Maine border is only a couple of towns away from my home so it's not like I had to go very far,  and I've been seeing this doctor since I was in my 20's. She was a new doctor when I started going to her.  Since I've been her patient for so many years  my appointment is always a time where we catch up on our lives. I am going to miss her when she decides to retire.

That was a lot of writing to get to  my  food story for last week. After my doctor's appointment it was lunch time. In this small city where my doctor's office is located is a restaurant that sells lobster rolls for $9.99. You have to pay for any add on, like chowder or French fries. You have a choice of your lobster in mayo or in butter, and this time I went with butter rather than mayo.

It's not a bad lobster roll for $9.99, especially since most restaurants are still charging almost  3x as much. Even though it's not as stuffed full as a Pop's lobster roll, it was certainly enough for lunch, especially since I added fries. I also like how they didn't overload you with fries either. 

This restaurant is actually at an ice cream factory, and I was very tempted to get a cup of some after I ate my sandwich. I used all my will power and refrained-smile!😏

Since this is T day I also need to share a drink. Ever since I visited the Bigelow Tea Plantation in Charleston back in May, I get emails about their various tea products. Last Monday I got an email about a seasonal tea collection they were selling, and since it sounded pretty good, I decided to treat myself. It was at my house by Friday, which is pretty fast shipping too.

The lighting made it hard to not get any glare, but this collection came with 8 tea flavors and 8 bags of each. There's pumpkin spice, cranberry, caramel apple, salted caramel, hot cinnamon, eggnog, peppermint bark and gingersnap.  I like how there's flavors for both Thanksgiving and Christmas, and I also like how there's 8 bags of each. Sometimes in sample packs you only get 1 or 2 of each flavor, and if it's something you really like, it's gone pretty quick. I suppose you could go buy a whole container of that flavor, but for seasonal flavors, sometimes you don't want a whole container.  You might know what I mean.

The first flavor I tried was the salted caramel, which was pretty tasty. I wanted to show my mug of tea and also my tea bag holder because our lovely hostess Elizabeth mentioned last week how she has a whole collection of tea bag holders. Tea bag holders are a fun thing to collect.  I hope you share yours one day for tea Elizabeth.

I know my tea bag holder is not very impressive. But I think even if I had a tea bag holder I would probably forget to take it out and just use a spoon. Smile.  😏  

I've tried all the fall flavors, and I like them, especially❤ the cranberry.   I'll drink the fall flavors this month, and the winter/holiday  ones next month. Unless I get too curious and can't wait to try them-smile.

 I'm hoping for another fairly quiet week, and this time one without a lot of wind, since now that some of  the leaves are down, I have round one of the raking to do and yard wrap up to do.

Round 2 of raking should happen in another week or 2 when all the oak leaves come down.  As was said in the conversation when my doctor and I chatted the other day, think of raking as upper body exercise. 😏

(You have to think of something positive about it.)

Have a wonderful T day and week ahead.