Friday July 10, 2015

59 degrees w/ 6 mph winds

Day 57

I woke a little before 7, I could hear the rest of my family sleeping…it’s quiet!  Today is their last day on the island.  It’s also my son, Matthew’s Birthday!

Sherri, my daughter in law is planning on making him his favorite cake…it’s a multicolored, swirled Pound Cake.

Going to try and get Lobster to celebrate today!!

My mother never had the chance to share this experience with the rest of her family.  I have so enjoyed looking at my gb’s eyes as they look at the light and the water, as they roll down the hill in front of the house, as they search for sea glass down in the cove.  I am blessed!

Ethan is going to take them back to shore when he drops off a group of volunteer workers.  They still want to visit a few spots around Maine before the long trip back to Texas.

It got up to 77 degrees today, but the wind has kept it pleasant.

Ethan brought a group of visitors and we had several other individual boat come ashore.  I love it when I ask if they would like to go up the tower and they are in awe.  Then when I get through telling them about the light and tower history I start to open the catwalk door and they get excited.  The first words are always in amazement….I love it!  One couple later on in the evening only spoke little English, I think they were from Germany, if I had to guess. They only wanted to see the tower and were amazed…no interpretation needed! 

Lots of donations today by some great people!!

Gb’s went and made sandcastles in the cove.

We had some lobster delivered and the kids enjoyed it for lunch.  Me….I just ate the mash potatoes.

My grandkids painted some rocks and a couple came up and we invited their two yr old daughter, Hazel to paint with us…then they took the tours and bought some t-shirts and donated!

Dinner….chicken strips and asparagus.

We spent as much time with the babies as we could tonight.  The sunset was spectacular.

I had several great photo's, but I've already waited almost an hour for the computer to let me have my photos to put on this blog...guess it's tired....sorry, will try to get them posted later.

Thursday July 9, 2015

Day 56

This is T’Ann and I’m back….as Larry said, I had to take part of our family to the airport for their flight back to Texas….and I missed my family that’s back on Seguin.

Our three children, two daughter in laws and five grandchildren

Landyn and Raychel "rolling" down the hill on Seguin

I did the regular “shore” day stuff yesterday (Wednesday): groceries, laundry and then the office where a package was waiting for me. 

I normally don’t get to visit any of the shops along the main strip of downtown Bath, so yesterday I took advantage of it and visited some of the cutest stores. 

The Book store/Tea shop, where I ordered a book and enjoyed a glass of ice tea/lemonade.  Then I visited a couple of antiques and local artist shops, finishing with the local drug store.  Off to Cyndys, she fixed dinner which was fabulous and gave me a bed for the night.

This morning (Thursday) Ethan was waiting at the dock at 6:30 to take me, the two roofers, they are going to be working on the Donkey House roof, and three of the WW. 

Oh my goodness….they have a new mower for the island!!!  It’s big, so they are having to bring it out in sections!!  We are so excited!!

Our first boat load of visitors were “repeat” visitors from a couple of weeks ago…they brought their grandson and wanted to purchase things from the gift shop!!! 

More visitors arrived by boat and then Ethan arrived with his group of visitors.  They were a wonderful group, loving the island and everything we could tell them.  Brook, who’s Ethan’s boat helper, brought his mother up, it was good to meet her.

My grandson, Landyn who just turned two, point up and says “Light House”.  He brings me postcards from here and says “Light House”.  He points to the different pictures on the wall and says “Light House”…..Hummm, maybe he likes Nani’s LIGHTHOUSE!

Landyn looking up at the Lighthouse

My son, Matthew, made Lobster Etouffee and poured it over rice…it was great!

The kids have really enjoyed the beach and it’s been wonderful to be with them.  Not sure I’m ready for them to go, we will be very sad.

No sunset to see tonight, too foggy, so we finished the sparklers.  The mosquitos have started coming around so we quickly went inside and everyone got ready for bed.

Wednesday July 8,2015

Day 55

This is Larry. The fog hung around all morning and into the early afternoon.  My son and his family and I went down to the cove and played at low tide.  The little ones got into the water but it is just too cold for me.  They found a lot of sea glass and I took the grandbabies out in the dingy.   We rowed around the cove and finally went to the buoy and got the lobster.  Yes, we are having lobster for dinner.  

 With T’Ann on shore I don’t have to cook two different meals for tonight (she can’t eat lobster.  Like I said, the fog finally burned off and it was a wonderful afternoon of sun and fun with the family.  Around 5pm a family of four arrived and wanted to see lighthouse.  I took them on a tour and they said of all the times they have been on Seguin, this is the first time they had gone out on the catwalk. 

We had lobster, mashed potatoes and corn on the cob with chocolate pudding for dessert.  We ate out on the picnic table, watched the kids have fun with sparklers and took pictures of them playing along with the sunset.  Missing T’Ann and I know she is missing them just as much.  We will meet her in the cove in the morning  to get laundry, groceries and water from the boat and get it up from the bottom of the hill to the top.

Getting the kids to bed is a chore tonight, nobody want to go to sleep.  Wish I had that much energy.