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.

Thursday July 16, 2015

Day 63

After a good night sleep, we woke early and headed to breakfast…we had a nice little breakfast, gathered our stuff….back up those stairs….then down…and we are headed to Popham.

I drove through downtown Bath showing them the Chocolate Church…because it’s painted brown.  We then went through Main Street and pointed out where momma went up to see the doctor who told her she was “expecting” my sister Penny.  I showed them the Bath Iron Works, the Maritime Museum, and the Plant retirement home.  Mom said it looked the same that it did back in 1960.  Momma wanted to know if the Stage Coach Hotel was still here.  She said it was really old and had this huge wide staircase that led upstairs.  It only had one bathroom for the entire floor.

Jo Nell, Darlene, Mary and Judy (Momma) in front of the Chocolate Church

Now to Popham Beach to take them to the beach and see the Fort before we caught the ferry to the island.  We talked about the riptides, the seals, the temperature change between where we were standing vs the temp on the island.  We walked around Fort Popham, took photo’s.  When I saw Ethan’s boat, we headed to the dock.  Darlene, one of my momma’s, is deathly afraid of water.  She did great.  The tide was high, but we still had to climb down a ladder from the dock to get into the boat.  The ladies did great.  I introduced my momma and mommas to Ethan and Brook.  We enjoyed the boat ride out, showing them Pond Island first.    Then we arrived…Seguin!  We didn’t tell Darlene about the dingy ride from the boat to shore…so this was either going to be fun or terrible…she did great, just like she had done it a million times.  Tide was high and that meant that we would get off on the rocks which were covered by “lots” of seaweed.  Again, they did great, momma only fell twice…dang that seaweed.  Bandit was so happy to see her!

 

Jo Nell, my aunt and momma at Ft Popham

Darlene and Mary at Popham

Mary at spiral staircase in Ft Popham

Maritime Museum

Now we had to get up the hill.  They were tired, but troopers and Brook was our hero.  He grabbed half of our luggage and one large duffle bag of clean laundry and started up the hill….we took our time.  I tried to get up here a little quicker because all the guest that had been on the ferry with us, were now up at the lighthouse.

 

Momma and Jo Nell on the ferry....ready to go!

Jo Nell looking out to Pond Island......Mary and Darlene ready to go to Seguin

Momma getting on the dingy

Mary and Darlene  READY to get on the dingy

I arrived at the top and the island was covered in kids that were having a blast playing games….what…kids having fun playing games with each other and not on some phone/game machine, etc… They were a great bunch of kids, they said they had been in Small Point summer school and the parents, etc and had come to spend some time here.  Wow…as they left almost every kid said “bye” and “Thank You”….how sweet.

All the other ferry visitors were looking around.  Larry started the tower tours and I began inviting them into the museum and gave directions to the different trails.  I love it when I give info in the museum and then you can “see” people become inthrilled with Seguin!

Summer School kids

Boy it got quiet as quick as it had gotten wild and loud.  Another couple of visitors came up later, but they said this was something they did every year…but they still did the tours…   

Now I got time to talk to the girls about where everything was…their bedrooms, the bathroom, the kitchen, etc…

Larry made a platter of cheeses, summer sausage, vegetable, crackers and dried fruit….he said he was going to spoil them and he has started out well.

Desk set up...Sue worked hard to find the items to replicate the original USCG desk as seen in the photo

Momma and Mary

Sitting around enjoying the day

Chef Larry

Enjoying our food

While we are enjoying our appetizers…he is in the kitchen fixin Chicken Pot Pie…Blessed!

He calls us to the dinner table and it is laid out and ready with our individual drink orders.  Blessing said and we ate!  Then we pulled out all the dessert things we bought for the week and put it in the middle of the table…like having a slumber party…poor Larry!!

It’s been a good day…my momma is here with me under the same roof some 53 years since we lived here!  Looking forward to finding out some more info from her as we walk around the island…I will share later!  Now to watch the sunset in the cold it's 59 degrees.

Waiting for the sunset...it's bright, but the sun is going down.

A perfect sunset to a perfect day

Wednesday July 15, 2015

Day 62

This was our normal go ashore day…plus it was the day I go pick up my momma, aunt and two other momma’s.  Only had a couple of WW come on the island: Ken and Cyndy.  Larry had an eye issue that had to be checked out so we had an appt with a Dr Mark Marotto in Bruswick.  He said it was already getting better and gave him some drops. We finished doing our regular things….laundry, office, groceries, etc....I got Larry back to Popham to catch a ride back with Ethan to the island, along with all the supplies (I hope they are all up the hill and put away when I get there later).

 

Three of my grandbabies getting ready to leave

The girls had flown to Boston from DFW, then caught the bus to Portland.  They had been up since 3:30 am Texas time!  They were exhausted and hungry!

There go by babies...sad!

We headed to Brunswick where we got a couple of rooms at a Motel, then went to find something to eat….not too many places are open after 7 around here.  I wanted a family type restaurant…the lady that ran the desk at the motel suggested a place that was still open.  We went to Ebenezer’s Brew Pub…we closed them down, they will never be the same, the guy said to me as we left, “you’ve got your hands full”!  No chicken fried steak, no fried okra, no pecan pie…momma’s headed home!  No not really, but that’s what it was like last night. The food we had was good, but the laughter was great….we had the others in the Pub talking with us and carrying on with us.  Momma and Mary tried to drink coffee out of square cup….they dribbled a little and figured to go to the corner. 

Navy guys worked on weed eatting an area thats a little difficult to do!

Boat house next to our beach that the Navy guys worked on replacing some wood

Exhausted we headed back to the motel where everyone has their own bed…they have been traveling like they are handicapped because of being deaf, blind and “older”.  Now I have them walking up a flight of 20 steps to get to their room.  They even had to carry their own luggage!! I told them there would be no partying, but I don’t know.