Angelique's "shoulders" tonight!!
No kidding, it was around eight degrees in the Big Apple today; I shudder to think what the thermometer hit up there in "balmy" Collinsport, Maine today!
Can you imagine how "warm" and "toasty" Barnabas and ol' Willie must be in the Old House, which does
not, unfortunately, feature the thoroughly "modern convenience" of central heating? The thought of poor Willie, schlepping outside to get some more firewood for the drawing room fireplace is just too painful to contemplate. (And I don't even want to think of the "discomfort" Willie must have experienced, if he had to make a rather hasty 3:00 AM visit to the Old House outhouse.)
And how many prospective customers went out and braved the chilly Maine winds, coming in from Collinsport Bay, to hoist a few at the Blue Whale tonight? I'll bet that Bob Rooney had to close the joint up early.
As the wonderful Dark Shadows novelist Dale Clark once pointed out, it's too bad that we never got to see winter depicted on Dark Shadows during its nearly five-year-run. What fun it would have been to have seen the eminent Prof. T. Elliott Stokes, arriving at Collinwood, attired in a L.L. Bean Baxter State Parka, and also wearing goose-down insulated mittens and an L.L. Bean "Mad Bomber Hat," just like the ones former President George H.W. Bush and his wife, Barbara, are said to wear when they're both out walking along the beach near Walker's Point in equally frigid Kennebunkport, Maine!