Over Easy
Breakfast isn't the biggest challenge in opening a Down East B-and-B.
he doorbell rang at about 7 p.m. just as we were finishing dinner. From the kitchen we could peek out to the front porch, where we saw four people waiting expectantly. "You handle it," said my wife, Pat."No, you are much better with people."
"I'm too nervous," Pat said.
"Okay, I'll go," I said finally.
And this is how we met our first bed-and-breakfast guests. Even though the sign out front read "vacancy," it never dawned on us that we might actually get unexpected company; we'd assumed our first guests would have reservations.
