Saturday
August 6, 2016
Raising the flag this morning was a challenge with winds gusting up to 30mph and consistently blowing at 20mph. It was overcast and big seas resulted in small craft advisory that we expected to lead to few visitors today. Patty made blueberry pancakes for breakfast with blueberries picked on Seguin and buckwheat flour left by our recent guests, the Munro’s.
Later in the morning, a light fog started to build around Seguin which seemed unusual with the winds we were experiencing. Surprisingly, two men came up from their sailboat that they had moored in the cove. One was from Brunswick, not far from here, and the other from Burlington, Vermont and they were spending a few days sailing
around. They said it was a pretty rough ride out there and decided to stop here for a break in addition to seeing the sights on Seguin.
Just before our visitors arrived, I started processing the Caretaker Quarter composting toilet which involves removing a tray of “finished” compost that is completely dried out and disposing of it. Then the toilet drum is rotated to add more “unfinished” compost to the
finishing tray to start finishing which largely involves drying it out over a period of 2-3 weeks. It’s not a bad chore but not one that I particularly want to stop and finish later – once I start, I want to be done. So I only met the visitors briefly while Patty took them through the museum, gift-shop, and up in the tower. I finished just as they were leaving and had a chance to say hi before they went back down the hill.
We had hot dogs for lunch later – for some reason I was craving them – along with Pringles. Not the healthiest meal since we’ve been here, but they were good.
After lunch, we went down the hill where we weed whacked and clipped the brush on the Cobblestone and Cove Trails. Patty carried a couple waters up the hill to the house and I weed whacked up the Lighthouse Trail.
In the afternoon, we worked more on the presentation for next Saturday’s Summerfest fundraising event for Friends of Seguin Island
Light Station at the Maritime Museum in Bath. It’s coming along slowly… I’m sure the event will be fun and it will be nice to meets lots more folks that works on behalf of F.O.S.I.L.S. and those that support them. With that said,
working on the event is reminiscent of our days as “Type A” deskbound business software consultants, not so much the not “Type A” lifestyle we’re going for now. When we finish and make the presentation, we hope it’s well received and helps in a small way to the support of F.O.S.I.L.S.
Patty made shrimp tacos for dinner with sautéed shrimp and vegetables, diced veggies, cheese, salsa, and white corn tortillas. One of my favorites! After dinner, as the sun was setting across the water, the wind died down to 0, literally no wind at all, and the temperature felt like it went up ten degrees. I had on long pants and a fleece while we started
watching the sunset and within minutes, when the wind stopped, was way over dressed. It probably didn’t actually get warmer but after a day of consistently strong winds, the sudden calmness raised the feeling of humidity and temperature. Just another strange and different weather occurrence for us out here this summer.
Visitors – 2
Favorite Moment(s) – Shrimp tacos for dinner and getting the Cobblestone/Cove/Lighthouse Trails groomed.
Sunrise – 5:23am
Sunset – 7:47pm
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