Our Own Little Dining Room

It is always a cautious time when resuming running again after a long race.  Although not as punishing on the body as a marathon, a half marathon is a considerable distance, and on Tuesday my first three-mile run was a slow one; I was attentive to any unusual discomfort, the little "niggles" that beset us from time to time.  But it went well, although I took many walking breaks and stopped to stretch.  On Thursday, I completed another three-mile run, and then this morning I moved up to four miles.  Everything felt good, and Martha had a good run, too.  She has a 5-K run scheduled for May 6, so her plan is to begin doing some cautious speed work in a few days; there is a track here at the Kitty Hawk Middle School that we plan to use for that training.

It was a lazy Saturday after our run; we rambled down toward Kitty Hawk and back again, stopping for lunch at the Bad Bean Grill for shrimp tacos.  That's one of the things we enjoy about Duck (as we do Atlantic Beach) - the abundance of fresh seafood, both in restaurants and from our local seafood market, Dockside 'N Duck.  They have come to know us there year after year as reliable customers!

We realized today that we have been here for two weeks and, while we have eaten lunch a few times in restaurants, we have not eaten dinner at one.  The reason is that Martha loves to cook out here, and there is no better place to eat than right here, oceanfront, in our own little private screened-in dining room, listening to the sound of the ocean.  And that is what we did tonight as Martha prepared scallops, along with sauteed onions and summer squash we picked up from a vegetable stand in Kitty Hawk, garnished with a branch of rosemary.  Delicious!