Tuesday June 30, 2015

62 degrees w/2 mph winds

Day 47

We woke to the fog horn, was a little worried the weather wouldn’t be good for our overnight guest coming.  But it was just a little hazy.  The sun is bright today, almost intensified by the haze. So it’s going to be a good day.

10 am… The haze is gone, the sun is bright and even though its 65 degrees, we have little wind and are already sweating.

The Lobster boats are out and busy, guess the last two days weren’t good for them to be out working, so they are making up for it this morning.    Again there are several sailboats out.

Texted one of the F.O.S.I.L. members about the windows letting rain in during the gale winds.  They will need to check on it and let us know what we might can fix it.

Ethan is bringing a group around 11.  When we know we have visitors coming, it makes it difficult to “start” doing something big.  Like I need to take the little chest of drawers from the kitchen and sand, stain and varnish it.  But I need to be ready to receive my visitors and give tours and run the gift shop.  We try to make each visit special for each one.  So we putter around doing little things. 

One more look around the guest quarters to make sure all is in its place and ready.  Yep….extra blankets available for them!

Ethan brought a boat load and we had two more individual boats come in.  Got to share my history and the history of our light with so many.  Gift shop sales were good.   The overnight guest are excited about being here.  They’ve each kind of taken to a different part of the island, taking in the views, the sun and the solitude. 

They came back from taking the south trail and loved it.  They saw several baby gulls, little fluff balls about the size of a softball.  They also saw several nest with eggs still in them…..more babies to come!  I told them at low tide that it was a good time to go down and look for sea glass, the two teenage girls did.

They told us they didn’t want to miss the sunsets, I told them I would come get them and we would go up to the top of the light and watch it.  They seem to be having a good time.

Excited about tomorrow….some of our kids and their family….my grandbabies…will be arriving and are coming to spend a week with us!!!  Thank you to the Friends of Seguin for rounding me up some lifejackets for my gb’s!!

The moon is full tonight and we really didn’t get a good sunset…too many clouds in the sky.

Making our list of what to do on our "on shore" day.

Sorry folks, but my computer is having issues today...it will not allow me to download any pictures.  I'll try to add them tomorrow.  

Monday June 29, 2015

56 degrees w/7 mph winds

Day 46

Went to sleep in the storm and woke to a beautiful day, sun shining bright, no rain, with a light breeze.  The seas look smooth, but I can see they are rolling high, almost hypnotic.  It isn’t until they reach Cobble Stone beach that the wave comes in with some force.  We have already seen one sailboat out to the East of us.  Later several sailboats were out…guessing this is there kind of weather!

Waves are still coming in hard and high

It looks smooth to me, but I bet a surfer would enjoy the waves we've seen

Breakfast Burritos to start the morning!

Around 11 the grass was dry enough to start working on it again.  Larry finished some around the house, then down the main path.

Saw a sailboat headed to our cove, so we thought we might be getting company.  You know how you can clean house much quicker when companies coming…well I did so much work outside trying to finish…then I saw them sail off.  Bandit barked at them, which was a first for him to bark at a boat, and for it to be such a distance away!?!

 

Trying to get a good photo of the waves for you to see what we see

Around 2 a family of three came up. They said the waves were rough.  The older gentleman had served in the CG in the 80's and knew a lot of history of our light.  He was excited to go up and see it. That was the only visitors for today.

Rocks everywhere and the cable to the island.....

We went down to the cove to see if there was any damage.  The waves did a number on the beach…it took almost all of the sand away leaving a million rocks.  Guess they were always under the sand.  The cable to the island is very much exposed  and I can see that they haven’t fixed the one problem area yet….so I’m going to send the CG an email and keep them up to date.  Everything else looked fine, no damage.

Our overnight guest for Tuesday night called and there will be 4 to 5 people.  We will be ready for them and they should have a great time being able to spend more time on the island, the sunsets, the sunrises, the morning air….yep it will be good.

More yard work, I finished the porch landing on our side, now for our showers and ready to sit and relax.  Too tired for dinner...think we will just skip it tonight!

Sunday June 28, 2015

Day 45

55 degrees w/ 23 mph winds this morning at 9 am by 3 pm the temp had dropped to 51 with up to 45 mph winds…Gale winds! I had let Bandit out this morning about 2:30 am and everything was still normal, no rain, little wind.

Looked through every window to see if we could see any damage…benches are turned over, but nothing more to see.  Went to the museum and there was water coming from both of the South windows, one had made a stream of water across the room.  We tried to take photos of what we see, which is high seas and lots of white caps showing us the strength and height of the waves.

High waves

Gale winds and High waves today at Cobble Stone Beach

A regular day of waves at Cobble Stone beach

The tall grass and shrubs are being blown in both directions at the same time.  The gulls are out, but not many.  What really got us laughing this afternoon was while we were looking at our digital weather station, it shows the speed at the time and it also shows the average speed for the last 10 min.  While looking at it, the average speed message went away and then it said, “Hold onto your Hat”.

Breakfast this morning was breakfast burritos. 

We read for a while out of the book of Numbers, then watched a few videos.  Lunch was leftovers, I had chicken strips, asparagus and rice while Larry finished off the Beef and mushroom gravy with rice.  Planning on frying fish tonight. 

Looking out the museum window, the other windows are covered in rain

Someone had asked us if we would be ok today, knowing the storm was coming…..I look forward to the storms.  I love the intenseness of them, I love the rains, and if it thunders…I sleep like a baby!   This storm makes me think of what is just above our heads….the light…solid and standing strong in this storm, giving aid to those who might be on the water.  I’ve listened to the different boaters and they respect the seas, they are always headed home by 5 pm.  The sea dictates when and where they go.  I did however find it odd that we could hear the ship that goes to Nova Scotia daily.  I hear them talking to someone in Portland, Maine about coming into port…Today, really?

Later we did a little housework.  Our children and grandchildren will be visiting soon.  We blew up a couple of air mattresses, put the sheets on them and gathered blankets.  I’ve sent them word of our cool morning and warm afternoons….layering clothes is a great idea.

We’ve worked on our grocery list for our next shore day.  I don’t want my GB’s to want something and I not have it!

We’ve got to get in touch with our “lobster” guy and set up a delivery of some sea spiders…I’m allergic, but the rest of the gang is looking forward to some Maine Lobster! 

Ok…I’ve never cooked one before, but I’m thinking that’s just one more great experience of being out here on the rock.

 I tinkered in the museum cleaning, straightening and making sure nothing was getting ruined by the water that had come in.  All seemed to be good after putting a few towels around the windows….something to be done later when its dry.

Dinner of fish-n-chips and homemade tauter sauce. 

 The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea. Psalms 93:4 (KJV)

Psalm 93:4 (KJV)