Saturday June 27, 2015
61 degrees w/ 2 knots
I tried for over an hour last night to get my
blog posted. Computer kept freezing up
even after shutting it down a couple of times.
Finally got it done this morning, but not sure I proof read it before
sending…oops! It has to do with the attachments that I want all of you to see.
Slept in a little this morning…8:30! Larry was already up working on his computer
stuff. He works with the Big 12
Equestrian Judges. Most everything he
does is via the computer. He was even
having trouble this morning with this computer.
As I sit here trying to enter a few thoughts, I
went back in my head about 50 years and wondered what dad would have thought
about having a computer, cell phones, digital electronic weather machines, digital
cameras, and such out here on this island.
Mom said she usually got to call back to Texas once a month, maybe. The pictures we have of our life on both Pond
and Seguin Island are about 15 for almost a two year timeframe. They were expensive to buy the film, the
flashbulbs and then to get them developed…only to find out that half of them
didn’t come out or were fuzzy, etc…. And here I am upset that my computer
wouldn’t download photos as quickly as I would have liked so I could post a
blog that goes out all over the world in a matter of seconds!!!!
Guess what we had for breakfast…no blueberries
in the pancakes this morning. Just didn’t
take the time to put them in….had to get in here and mess with the computer!
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| Just a sailboat sailing by |
Larry’s on the move this morning….already “turned”
the toilets and headed down to the cove to work. I need to do some more touch up to the signs
below, but I have got to get some little paintbrushes…the q-tip I tried
yesterday did ok, but not up to what I wanted.
I’m thinking of making another sign for the gift shop up here, right outside
the door! What color, what size, where
to hang it, etc…something that will catch the eye of our visitors as they come
up the hill. That’s my project for the
today, with the weather forecast for tomorrow, that’s when I will stay in and
clean the house.
A family of three generations, who have been
coming every summer for the past 12 years came today. Larry was able to share little bits of info
and history that they hadn’t heard before….like the bell, they knew it was new,
but didn’t have the history. They took
lots of family photos on the rock outside my back door. I took one of the entire bunch for them with
their camera. They enjoyed a picnic
lunch on our picnic table and continued to talk with Larry about Texas and the
weather and what he used to do and more.
They are from Connecticut and Delaware and vacation here during the
summers.
Several more families came, some having never
been here while other make a trip annually.
One gentleman talked of a photo with a P-3 Airplane flying over Seguin…I
took him straight to the photo and he told us about the maneuvers that they
would do between Seguin and Fort Popham.
The plane was his squadron.
Several furry friends came and visited
today. They all seem to enjoy the island
as much as their people. Rolling in the
grass, running and jumping. I keep a
bowl of water up here for them which they seem to really enjoy.
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| One of the signs in the Museum |
You remember the red paint I’m wearing from the
other day, well now I’m wearing a greenish gray. Its water based, so it will be gone tonight!
I repainted a table in our vestibule and touched up a bench…they were both
already this color, they just needed a little TLC.
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| Oil can backpack..it was used to carry oil up to light |
Larry finished mowing and I finished my
painting. Don’t think anyone will be
coming up now since it’s getting late and the “gale” winds are coming
tomorrow. I was told “gale” meant
strong, like 40 mph winds. We will do a
few things around here that the winds might affect.
We are already tired, not sure if we will see
the sunset. But here is what we saw later last night.
