Wednesday August 19, 2015
Not sure about temp and winds
Day 97
Yesterday was our go ashore day, so I didn’t
blog anything when we got home. It
totally wears us out getting our supplies from the dingy, up the stairs and
then up the hill. I sometime wonder if
our marriage will survive bringing items up the hill.
We had three WW arrive, Ken, Tom and Vicky came
on the island yesterday morning and they needed to get off the island earlier
than normal, so we choose a 2 pm meet time with Ethan. We normally have two to three more hours, so
we rushed.
Same list that we started
with…
Meet Ethan at 7 at the cove
Cyndy’s house….. to drop off our trash, guest
linens to be washed, pick up last weeks guest linen that was washed, and fill
up our 5 water jugs. Cyndy won’t be
coming to the island today, she is filling in for Catherine at the office. She said I had a package, she left and came
back with a box of “Fruit Loops” and a package of shoe strings, wrapped with a “Happy
Birthday” ribbon.
This was one of most
treasured birthday gifts…. I had told her the story of when momma would be
getting ready to go ashore for groceries, etc…
She would take a shoe string and give me a bowl of Fruit Loops to “string”. She would then tie it and I would wear it on
our “trip” ashore. It taught me a lesson
coordinating my fingers as well as it was a snack during our out and about
day. THANK YOU Cyndy!!!
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Laundry….start it washing
Then to breakfast at Southgate Café
Laundry…start it drying
Office…drop off Ken’s camera, visitors sign-in
sheets, and gift shop sale info, and pick up toilet tissue for the cove potty,
met a young man who is interning at the office.
He just came back from Japan. He
was part of the exchange program….remember the four young people earlier this
week from Japan. I wish I had made a
copy of their signatures in the guest book, very interesting.
Rodgers Ace…looked for a wagon to replace the
islands wagon that broke yesterday
Lowes….looking to see if they had a wagon
Walmart….grocery’s, etc….
Pedi vs lunch….Pedicure won, we both needed it
badly! So no lunch!
Was on time at the dock and out to the island…there
was still a layer of haze on the water, and Seguin was still able to be seen,
but it was hazy as well.
Four boats in the cove when we arrived. We transferred our items from Ethan’s boat to
our dingy and then to shore…high tide, so getting things out of the dingy can
be difficult…the waves keep trying to “take” the dingy out…but at the same time
it “pushes” it up a little more.
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There were four boats in the cove when we
arrived and most of them were already on the island, I did help a lady and her
granddaughter out of their inflatable kyake.
We told them it would be a little while.
Ken suggested some trails to go on while they waited on us to get up the
hill. The WW said that they enjoyed the
Banana Bread, but didn’t eat it all.
They said they didn’t have many visitors, but Vicky said she sold a lot!
Remember I told you our little wagon died…well
we are dragging it by the back wheels only.
We left some items down in the Donkey House, will get them later this
week. Left the water jugs at the
bottom. Larry is going to see if there
are a couple of strong young men that might bring a couple up the trail for
us!!
So…..before we ever started up the hill….I went
to the front of the wagon, made him put the handle down and I kissed him…one of
those special kisses….He told me he loved me….now that I had his attention I
said, “I love you, BUT will you still love me when we get to the top of this
hill?”. He started laughing and said, “yes,
but I might not like you very much”.
Wednesdays are difficult!!
Finally made it to the top and found three
people wondering around our side…it startled me. Everything was ok, I think, they just didn’t
realize that this was our living quarters.
They didn’t go into the museum but headed down the trail, back to their
boat. I think Bandit gave them a guided
tour of our place.
Put everything away, apologized to Bandit who is
dealing with abandonment issues…not really he just wants me to sit down so he
can get in my lap and hold me down.
Leftover Spaghetti and garlic toast for dinner…then
some Bengay. Larry’s knee had its moments of being ok and
other moments of pain…he thinks he can wait till we get back to Texas and have
Dr. Moffett look at it, not sure he can.
Went out and did some star gazing from the NE
side of the house and wanted to see the tower light from there…the fog is
running through the beams.
Bed time!
