Saturday June 20, 2015

58 degrees w/3 mph winds

Day 37

Weekends are always big days, boats on the water, people visiting, etc…

 

White moth on a white board

Our overnight guest were up early exploring the island trails.  We got to visit with them later, which was a real treat.  It’s a neat thing to see Seguin through our guest eyes.  We also try to see what they might think needs to be worked on/improved.  Simple things like I didn’t realize they didn’t have any dish soap in the guest quarters to wash the dishes.  I’ll get that fixed today!

Larry, Deb and Shawn

My new Coast Guard brother, Burton and his dog Abbi came back for their tour of the museum.  His dad, Charles Rankie served from 1971-73.  His dads info isn’t on our records, (my dad’s weren’t either),so he is going to contact the group and get that to them.  He’s hoping he can get his dad out her before we go.  He shared a few photos of his dad living here on Seguin during his CG days.  He and Abbi headed down the trail and to the cove to say good by. 

 

Burton and Abbi

We are expecting our young love birds to arrive around noon for their wedding.  Larry has made sure the giant wooden heart is freshly painted and ready to be apart of the day.  We placed four benches from around the island around the area that they had chosen a few weeks ago for the “spot” to say their “I does”.  

Uncle Bruce, the minister was the first to arrive carrying this giant nautical knot rope which is part of their ceremony.  Fifteen in all showed up and after a couple of minutes, with everything in its place, the ceremony began.  I knew that some had said they wanted to take some photos from the tower, so I went up and stayed…well, I’ve got a great view of the ceremony and since I had a camera….ok, I took photos of the entire ceremony.  Now I have to figure out which “one” to put on my blog.  They are such a sweet young couple.  After many more photos from their group of people they headed off to the reception to be held at the Maritime Museum in Bath.  They thanked us several times for having the place look so nice and for having their wooden heart out.  As they left they said they would be back out later this summer to pick up their heart.  Something sweet that they grooms mother gave them the night before was a silver bracelet that she had purchased from the Friends of Seguin online gift shop.  The bracelet has the nautical “longitude and latitude” of Seguin stamped into it.  They signed our visitors book as a married couple!

The Bride and Groom

This is the door from inside the lighthouse  going to the catwalk 

Lunch…ham sandwiches

Another group had come up, they hadn’t planned on stopping here, so they had just enough time to do the museum and tower tour.  They said they were just out sailing, pulled into our cove and took a nap…not making it to the Lobster boat races in Booth Harbor.  They didn’t get to do any of the trail, but plan on being back.

After they left a family showed up, part of them are from Houston, Texas.  They enjoyed the tours and went to eat their late lunch out the back, on one of the benches.

It started feeling a little more chilly as the day progressed.  I think Maine weather is a little like Texas weather….if you don’t like it, wait a minute and it will change!

 

Visitors enjoying the catwalk

Our daughter in law is doing such a great job of keeping our place running.  The rain that they are having in Texas is devastating.  She’s had to go cut down trees that have fallen due to erosion.  The trees have fallen on fences and the cattle think it’s an invite to visit the neighbors.

I asked my pastor if I needed to build an Ark and come get them.

Its been a full day, ready to wind down and get a glass of tea and start this blog.  I wish my photos could capture just a small amount of what I see.