Thursday August 6, 2015

63 degrees w/ 3 mph winds

Day 84

 Perfect Morning!  Thank you God for this perfect Morning, so blessed to be here on Seguin, so blessed to look out my window and see this great ocean, so blessed to have had my mother here with me again after 54 yrs, so blessed to have been able to share this with our children and grandchildren, so blessed to have new Mainer friends.  Blessed!

One of the reasons I enter the temperature every morning is not to brag to my fellow Texans, but to hopefully share the awesomeness of being in Maine at this moment in time.  I’ll take your Maine summers, but you can keep your Maine winters…this Texan wouldn’t do well with what ya’ll had this past winter.

Texas Weather this week

My phone died yesterday….RIP.  Larry’s phone won’t stay charged, so we only have this computer as our connection to the rest of the world…this too could be a blessing.  But I have a couple of folks that I need to be in contact with….Ethan – our boat captain, Cyndy – our go to girl, Jackson – our Lobsterman….Trayce and Ted are ready to have some of your Maine Lobster.

We received a “new” radio….not sure if I can call it a CG radio, but it is what we listen to for the weather and then we leave it on for any distress calls, etc…  Larry got it all connected this morning.  We have been without one for almost three weeks.  We got to hear our old friend tell us the weather this morning…we missed him!  Beverly will completely understand this.

Larry woke early, started breakfast for our guest.  I did some of my Bible reading…I should be further along, no excuses! 

Just before sunset yesterday three folks were up walking the island.  They are the sailboat that is moored down in the cove.  He asked when the best time to come up today.  He has a group of kids that he wants to share the Seguin experience with.  Looking forward to meeting this group of teenagers!

Took Ted and Trayce up in the tower and out on the catwalk for the sunset last night.  I never get tired of that “moment”…..that awe moment….. when other get to see and feel what we get to enjoy daily!

Trayce and Ted...our Texas family

After breakfast I’ve got to get over to the museum and inventory the items that the WW brought over yesterday. 

Had a couple of individual boat groups come up early, then Ethan’s tour group came up.  Ethan said he had another group after he got back to Popham Beach…wow, we’ve never had two groups! 

Our overnight guest arrived about the same time as Ethan’s first group about 11:30.  Got them up to their quarters with a few instructions before abandoning them for the rest of the folks that would only be here for about an hour.  Later I got to talk a little more with them, and if they needed anything not to hesitate to let us know. 

Last part of Ethan’s group was a 25 yrs of service USCG gentleman with his family!  Just like their kids, other kids are so impressed with the typewriter, or should I say in awe of it. 

Love every angle of this Island

Came in to type a little info…all the folks from the tour are gone,  Ted and Trayce are gone, Larry is down helping the tour group get back to Ethan’s boat…I feel alone!  I’m hyped from giving tours and tired at the same time. 

John Reid brought a group of teenagers, they are the ones who stayed in our cove last night….anyway, he was looking at the newspaper I brought back here…dated Aug 1, 1961….a David L. Swearingen was the reporter who wrote the story about the three families on Seguin Island.  John had worked with David…he took a photo of the newspaper and sent it to David!  Small world!  Thanks David for not only writing about the three families…one was me and my parents…but for spelling my name correctly…people can’t seem to get it correct, it is a little different….T’Ann.

 

1961 Bath Times Newspaper Article

Took some crackers outside for the guest kids: Max and Amaya to feed the seagulls, but we couldn’t get any gulls to take them…however, the kids enjoyed the crackers.  Amaya drew and colored a pictures of Seguin Lighthouse…pretty good job!

Seguin Lighthouse by Amaya (I love it)

 

What a wonderful way to spend the evening....family and friends, Ted and Trayce

We all went on the South Trail right before sunset. Had hotdogs for dinner, then played some cards, laughed and had a great time.  We took Ted and Trayce out to see the light when it got dark.  Our guest next door were outside enjoying the views also.

Wednesday August 5, 2015

Temp?

Day 83

Go ashore day!

It was a beautiful day.  We did all our normal day of being ashore.  Breakfast, office, groceries, etc…  Then we headed to Portland Airport to pick up our friends Ted and Trayce.  We had about an hour before they were to arrive so we went to see Portland Head Light House.  Picked them up and then back to Fort Popham to catch a ride with Ethan, then off to the Seguin.  The waters were rough all the way, normally it’s about half of the trip. We picked up the WW group and was headed to shore in our dingy and I decided to go swimming…not on purpose…my phone was in my pocket….I may have lost it…it’s in rice and I’ll try it tomorrow.  Larry’s phone isn’t working…so here we are out on this island with no phones!  This could be a blessing!

Showed Trayce and Ted the top of the island, watched the sunset from tower.

So much for the photos I took today.

Tuesday August 4, 2015

63 degrees w/ 9 mph winds

Day 82

Happy Birthday United States Coast Guard…..225 yrs old.

Woke to the fog horn, clock was blinking so we had lost power sometime last night.  The fog is thin, we can see past where the lobstermen go, but no further.  Around  9 it started sprinkling, but only for about 10 minutes….then we heard a weird noise….I thought Larry was doing something with a empty barrel or something outside and he thought I was rolling something around upstairs….then there was a CRACK….all we can figure is that it was thunder.  Both of us for a moment thought it could have been a boat running aground on the rocks.  Nothing like we have ever heard.  We checked the tower and the light is on.  The fog horn continues!

 

Foggy

Breakfast….I cooked…I know it’s rare, and I like it that way…anyway we had Breakfast Burritos: Sausage, eggs, cheese wrapped in a flour tortilla and then placed back into a pan to grill on both sides!

Thank goodness my laptop has a battery, because the electricity just went out again…9:14 am.  Wondering if it’s something out here or if those folks back in Phippsburg are having this happen to them also.  It is not big deal for “us” to be without power…this happens weekly back home.  There was a streak of lightning and then another clap of thunder.  If this keeps up, Ethan will not be coming to see us today! 

I text Ethan around 10:45 to see if he was coming…his response “nope”.  So the only visitors today will be those who are in our cove for safety and others who are out and about and decide to come.

Beautiful

We took advantage of this and decided to enjoy a few trails…all by ourselves!  When we went to the Cove Trail, we couldn’t help but trim as we went, but then we got to the end and began to search for sea glass….I found a RED….so excited!!  Larry stayed in one area about 3 foot by 3 foot and found a handful.  Later I went looking for drift wood and he took the camera and went out further on the rocks.  Once I looked out and he and Bandit were out a good distance, Larry was laying on his side…I think he was trying to get the waves “spraying” up as they hit the rocks.  He was and I can’t wait to share with you.  Called my daughter-in-law Amy and told her I had found a perfect piece of drift wood for a boat…Kaleb, our grandson’s room is nautical and I think she wants to make him a boat from what was collected from off of Seguin.

Our Treasure of Sea Glass and shells

The weather turned out beautiful.  Around 2 we started seeing boats out on the water, thought a couple were coming our way.  We think one boat was chasing a lobsterman…maybe to get some lobster? 

Time to start rounding everything that needs to go ashore tomorrow.  The flag that I talked about, that had shredded the end and got caught on the flag pole…well I’m taking it to the office so they can find someone like a scout group that can dispose of it PROPERLY.   Containers that gift shop supplies came in.  Trash and our own containers for food.   Driftwood we want to take home as well as a handful of rocks.

(1) these three make one long photo of the cloud

(2)

 (3)

The weather changed again and we heard a few claps of thunder.  We went out to check and found a very odd cloud configuration.  We could see it raining at both ends and it was moving very fast and would be over us soon.  We ducked inside the house, but it never rained and later when we went to see how it looked in front, everything looked normal.  There were only those few boats out around 2, but later there were no boats, the water looked still, but I guess they knew it wasn’t safe to be out.

Sunset was brilliant.  Cookies for my WW tomorrow, Ethan has already confirmed our 7am departure! 

Trayce and Ted here we come!