I love Saturdays. When I worked in retail, I had to work pretty much every Saturday, and I always felt like I was missing out on real life. Very often, I was missing out on something fun. So now I savor them, doing Saturday things like I always wanted to.

Most Saturdays, I walk down to the library. I usually have a book or movie that I had requested waiting for me (I love that I can request things online, and they even send me a text when it's ready!), but it's also fun to just browse and hang out in the reading room, looking at magazines. I've always been a big fan of libraries, and ours is small but nice.

I had other destinations in mind as well this week. The Say Cheese food truck was going to be at Medusa, the brewpub on Main Street. I stopped first at Mullahy's, the cheese shop, and picked up a bit of lovely ripened goat cheese that had just come in. It's similar to Boucheron, and less crumbly than the usual goat cheese.


A short walk down the street brought me to Say Cheese. It's a grilled cheese food truck.



Grilled cheese is one of my go-to comfort foods. I had told my boss the other day that I was planning to go, and she thought it would be a fun idea to maybe have them come to us sometime for an office lunch, so I took one of their cards as I waited for my sandwich. I ordered the Cheddar Monster, which was delish. Cheddar, munster, and tomato perfectly grilled. I sat in the shade in front of the town hall to eat it.



I then headed up toward the library, but as I passed New City Microcreamery I decided that some ice cream would really hit the spot. It was pretty warm, and I had a long walk home. So I popped in, and decided on the grasshopper flavor, which turned out to have alcohol in it so it was a bit like a frozen cocktail (not terribly strong). I sat under the apple tree by the library to eat it as I watched swallows skim the river looking for lunch.



After I checked out my book (THE ROOK by Daniel O'Malley, which I am rereading in anticipation of the sequel that just came out), I headed back home. A whole herd of turtles were sunning themselves by the waterfall; these three found a convenient rock to perch on.



When I got home and uploaded the pictures, I discovered that there was also a bright blue damselfly sitting on the rock.

By the time I got home, I was pretty wiped out. It's about a mile and a half from my house to downtown, and the walk back was bright and hot. All I was good for was a cool shower and settling in with my book.

It was a good day, and I had the goat cheese with some crackers for supper.

Since it was kind of cloudy, I decided to wait until tomorrow to walk down to the park. Instead, I walked down to the library, and discovered that I had just missed the Penguin Plunge being held across the street at the town square. For some reason, they couldn't hold it at the lake this year, and I'm not sure how they managed to, you know, plunge. Whatever. It's a fundraiser for the Children's Museum, so I hope it was a success.

When I came out of the library, wonder of wonders, the sun had come out! Yippee! So I wandered downtown, taking pictures of bridges and churches and stuff.

( downtown )

Now, it's clouded up again. I guess I went out at just the right time!