Friday July 17, 2015

Day 64

63 degrees w/ 8 mph winds…its going to be a beautiful day.

I woke at 7:30 and could hear all the girls talking and laughing…it was a good sound.  Mary who has trouble seeing now is loving outside…it’s bright.  She’s also a water girl…she and Wendall, her husband taught us how to water ski, they loved the water!

Mary enjoying the morning, the sea breeze, and the sea gulls

Larry got up early and has started breakfast….Blueberry pancakes and bacon.  Momma was a little sore yesterday from coming up the hill, but says she feels great this morning. 

Blueberry Pancakes

We ate and got ready to enjoy outside…first I had to add some inventory to my gift shop…they had a few purple and lime green ladies shirts!  They want to do a trail…so I took them to the South Trail.  It was difficult, but they did it.  They are enjoying this island so much and I would keep them here for the rest of our time here on the island, but they think they have to go home. 

Girls getting ready for the South Trail

At the vista part of the South Trail..they are loving this, they might not go home and that would be ok

The trail was a little rougher than I remembered...Momma gonna kill me for putting this on the blog...I'm proud of them all

At the end...now we have to go back....WHAT

So very proud of them all!!

We sat and rested and drank our ice tea on the front porch.  I knew Ethan would be here soon, so we were watching for our visitors.  Ethan only had about 10 today and they all enjoyed their visit. 

I did my tours of the museum and gift shop and gave info about the trails, while Larry went up to the top of tower for his tours.  Mom and the girls went in and made them some lunch and I joined them a little later after Ethans group went back to the cove.  We had a couple of individual groups come up.  One couple showed me a photo of their Maryland license plate…SEGUIN….They slightly love this place…I asked when they were going to be keepers…he said as soon as they retired!

A couple of large ships, cruise ships I guess came by and I was able to show the girls. 

I just found out I’ve got overnight guest tomorrow night.  I’ve got to get my girls moved over to my side and change sheets, etc… 

I have leftover marshmallows from when the gb’s were here so mom’s going to make fudge….YEAH!

We had a late visitor today….Brett Auclaire, she was the one who swam from Popham Beach to Seguin yesterday.  She has done this three times, doing this every ten years.  She came back by Kayak today to get t-shirts for her husband, plus she wanted to come kiss Seguin…she love it here! It was good to meet her, she talked with my girls and signed some papers for them to give to Mary’s gb’s.

The girls with Brett Auclaire...and bandit

The girls had not seen the cove except for coming in at high tide, so we went down and looked for sea glass, shells and rocks to take back to Texas to grandbabies.  They had fun.  

Larry helping Jo Nell, my momma and Mary find sea glass

We headed back to the top and started dinner.  As we left the cove we saw a sailboat coming into the cove, I waved a couple of times, but wasn’t sure they saw me.  I thought they might come up, but never saw anyone. 

Larry cooked grilled sausages, so we had hotdogs, baked beans, and chips.  Later we had dump cake.   Missed sunset visiting and listening to stories…some people might call it solving the worlds problems.

We played cards, this is something I wanted to do while mom was here simply because that is something that they did almost every night back when they were in the early 1960’s.  This was something they did to “help” the one on watch to stay awake.  One guy had to be on watch a night to make sure the light stayed on and that if the fog came in, they would have to go down and start the fog horn.   I came in here to do my blog and Larry took my spot at the cards….I heard mom say she hasn’t really played cards since she was here…no counting playing with the gb’s.