KidMontauk

What better accessory than a REAL book. It will age beautifully. It will always be a reminder of your summer in Montauk. It will look so chic on your coffee table.
The 4th has past and now we are in the true lazy hazy days of summer. What better accessory to carry with you than a book. (Especially since clear hand bags are in style everyone can see how bookish you really are.)Now I do not mean some trashy romance novela found in the super market on a wire spinning rack. I mean a real hard cover with a beautiful dust jacket that you possibly bought just because the picture on the front caught your eye, like a box of candies in a special box just calling your name. You can practically taste how deliciously entranced you will be by the characters waiting inside to be your long lost friends. I have just the treat shop for you to go to. It is the Montauk Bookshop on the circle just 2 doors down from the Bakery. It is slightly set back from the side walk. A beautiful rose garden in front lovingly tended by the land lord. The new owner of this wonderful shop has the same name as I, Perry! But the boys’ spelling of course since he is a boy, well, man. So the shop must be good just based on that alone. ha.

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Continuing with my crazy retro ideas there is a NEW shop in Montauk called The Salt Box. It is on the same block as Naturally Good, Continental Market and around the corner form Joni’s. I am telling you all this so you know it is in GOOD company. You can shop and eat healthy after – so no guilt. Back to the retro idea. The Salt Box makes screen printed t-shirts for kids and adults. Real OLD FASHIONED screen printing! You can find Tony down stairs in the basement of Salt Box working on silk screens. Just like I learned in high school. They make the screens by hand and push the paint around by hand. No computers doing it for them. Kat is upstairs and can help you find what you are looking for. As well as t-shirts they have a very cool assortment of gifts that are all easy to carry home or great hostess gifts. Such HAND blown water glasses that are thick and sturdy and feel wonderful to hold (You can put a cocktail in them too after 5pm). Please make this shop a definite go see during your stay in Montauk.

How about we forget about clothes all together for the time being. I can not even think about putting something on only for it to get drenched in sweat 5 minutes later. A nice nudist colony might do well just about now. I don’t know if Montauk could handle that. Hmmmm, the next best thing is a bikini and a beach chair half way in the water,a cold drink in your hand, and your child holding a palm frond over your head. I made 2 huge containers of iced tea, one mint and one black. Quite nice to have ready and waiting for you in the frig. I was walking around with a high ball filled with iced tea and someone thought I had whiskey on the rocks. Mama’s not that bad off at the moment. Good gracious this weather is uninspiring. The fashion magazines are all showing fall looks now. I get hot just looking at pictures of jeans and sweaters. You know all the summer clothing is going on sale. Maybe some new bathing suits? I know! New bathing suits for the kids. At least they still want to run around. I dragged my butt over to Air and Speed hoping to feel the air speeding past me like wind. It worked. I found very cute bikinis and matching surf shorts for your young lady and rad surf short and Ts for your dude. While you are there sign the kids up for Surf Camp so they can hang ten before you know it. You can also pick up that beach chair that you will be sitting in in the water with your cold drink and palm frond.
Keepin’ it cool-

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