Hey gang,
With the temperature predicted to reach 100 degrees (with a heat index in excess of 100 degrees, possibly, even nearing the 110 degree level) across much of the country today, where do you think Barnbas & company would go to "beat-the-heat" in that small fishing village on the rocky coast of Maine (especially, if Collinsport experienced a complete, "pain-in-the-caboose" power blackout)?
With absolutely no electrical power in the Old House, anyway, maybe Barnabas, Willie and Dr. Hoffman might
some find relief from the heat, down in one of those catacomb-like passageways under the 18th century house? (Although, the secret room in the Collins Family Mausoleum
might be cooler than those musty and cobweb-strewn Old House catacombs?)
Then again, maybe Mrs. Stoddard, Roger, Carolyn, David and Vicky might trek-over to Widow's Hill in their Land-Rover, to hopefully catch some cooling and refreshing sea breezes, as a way of escaping the decidely un-Maine-like sirocco winds, assaulting Hancock County, Maine? (And, wouldn't Mrs. Johnson and her son, Harry, be absolutely "thrilled," to have to schlepp all of those heavily ice-laden coolers of soft drinks, wine and water for their employers'/betters' enjoyment up there on that notoious peak?)
If all else failed, I suppose that everyone could don their skimpiest of bathing suits, and head on over to the Blue Whale to sip on voluminous bottles of Heineken, Corona Beer and Budweiser, kept cool by the ever-enterprising Bob Rooney, by submersing the brewskies in lobster traps, just off of the dock in Collinsport Bay, immediately outside of the bar. Can you picture Prof. Stokes wearing a European-style "speedo" while imbibing a St. Pauli Girl or Donna Friedlander, nursing a Bass Ale, and catching some rays on the Blue Whale dock, in her new thong bikini? (Yeah, picture
THAT! )
Stay cool today, everyone!
Bob the Bartender
PS Maybe today
is one day, when it
would pay to have P.T. Angelique's recurring "frigid" medical condition?