Thursday June 11, 2015
58
degrees w/ 18 mph winds
Day 28
Could
hear rain hitting the windows last night so we figured it was going to be a
dark, wet day. But the sun is shining
and guess it was only a little rain, besides the wind, it looks to be a beautiful
day.
As I
opened the curtains from our bedroom, I could see a sailboat out on the rough
waters. When I came into the kitchen for
coffee, I couldn’t see the sailboat.
Thinking that something had happened to it, I ran back upstairs to look
again and it was ok, it had traveled a great distance around the island in that
short amount of time. In the back of my
mind I was wondering…who do I call…do I use the radio…if I use the radio do I
say something special or important…like Ponpon Ponpon, like the Coast Guard
does (this means someones in trouble…pay attention so that you might be able to
help)….or do I call 911. Well I didn’t
have to do any! Larry said we are to get
on the radio and say “Seguin Island, Seguin Island calling Coast Guard”. Then we would give the situation that we
see. He’s so smart!
Breakfast
was ham, cheese and onion omelets with English muffin for toast.
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| Flora on the island |
Some
Bible reading while the sun comes out a little warmer, then I can prepare the
dirt for planting my seeds on Saturday.
Larry has
already been down to the cove taking photos of our baby ducks. We’ve got more
than three now!!
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| Ducks in the cove |
Larry
went to work on the guest quarters shelves today. Since I now had new shelves I
did some rearranging of the sheets, blankets, games, etc... Did some cleaning
and found that one of the windows has no curtains….so I’m going to sew one from
a sheet and hang it up this weekend.
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| 1 of 3..South end! Its at least 50 foot down, wish you could see the depth |
We went
and worked the South Trail….this is now my FAVORITE trail! It took us all the way to the south tip of
the island. The photo’s you will see
don’t show the beauty or the heighth of the rock ledges which are about 50
foot!
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| 2 of 3....Same site, I just move a little to the right |
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| 3 of 3...Same site...moved a little more to the right...still over 50 foot down! |
Totally
exhausted, done for the day!
Dinner of
Baked potatoes and fresh chives and pork roast.
Historical
Fact and My History mixed into one today!
The basement….the
island has a well, about 200 feet deep.
We go to the “pump house”, turn on the water to the house. It comes into our basement, into what are
called “citrines”. There are two, but we
only use one, they are made out of concrete and have a piece of wood over the
top. The water is stored in there until
we need it for washing dishes or bathing.
You don’t want to drink the water, it has lots of iron in it and being
that it just sits in the basement, dust, etc…
When it
is full, I put a beach ball in it so that we could easily see the depth, we go
back down to the pump house and turn off the well. This is how it was done in 1960-61, but we
drank it. There were also washing
machines and dryers in the basement back then, but we don’t have one, our
clothes would be all orange.
All the
water that goes down the drain goes into a 55 gal barrel and a sump pump sends
it out as gray water. If we need water
down at the cove, someone has to be in the basement to turn it on…and possibly
turn it off if there is a problem with the pipes going down beside the
tram. The water heater is also in the
basement.
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| 55 gallon barrel that our gray water drains too |
About half
of the basement, towards the back is a large rock that the house was built on.
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| Just to the left of the stair si the concrete citrine |
The water
has nothing to do with our toilets…I’ll tell you about those tomorrow!
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| My first Sea Gull eggs...they were right on the trail, the parent was kind and didn't dive bomb us or Bandit |
