Wednesday
May 27, 2015
Day 13
56
degrees w/4 mph winds
What a
beautiful morning, just enough wind in your face,
I can hear the wave hit the
shore below,
the sun is shining bright and warm through the windows of this
beautiful old
158 year
old dwelling, which is our home this summer.
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| Last nights sunset |
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| clouds were wild today |
Historical
Facts:
1794 - (1st)
Wooden tower…George Washington approved the building of the original wooden
tower, 50’ high with 16 Oil lamps.
1819 - (2nd)
New stone tower
1842 - 15
Argand lamps were added
1857 - (3rd)
Granite tower, 53’ high, extremely rare First Order Fresnel lens, and new
keeper’s quarters which still stand today.
My
History:
The
flying Santa Plane. At
during the Christmas season he would fly over the islands and drop gifts down
for the children. I was one of those
children. My gift that fell from the sky
was a rag doll and mittens. To honor and
remember this act of kindness, I have a Christmas tree that I hang all my
lighthouse ornaments. I also have a
small plane with a Santa. Thank you Mr. Santa.
I’m still
working on the keeper’s brick landing.
I’m raising it an inch and trying to level it. It will take many trips down to the cove to
get the sand needed. Larry cut, sanded, stained, and varnished one of about three
shelves to put in the empty space where the stove chimney used to be. He’s going to put new rope around the “main”
museum sign that goes in front of the house.
I’ll repaint the letters when he’s finished. Winds gotten higher sometimes reaching gust
of winds at 38 mph. We didn’t stay out
to much.
Lunch of
SOS: grilled onions, hamburger browned, and cream gravy over toast.
I spent
the afternoon cleaning inside the house and museum while Larry worked away in
the Whistle house (workshop).
This afternoon
it got foggy and the fog horn began!
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| Foggy, this is the normal view to our sunset |
Ethan
called and said it would be Friday early when we would get off the island.
Here's a few photo's of the interior of the keepers quarters.
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| Stairs going up to the 2 bedrooms (flag drying in hall) |
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| up towards landing |
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| bathroom -far left and 2 bedrooms |
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| Our bedroom |
