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At last we got off
the island after a 2-day delay. Got water at Cyndy’s house and gave Hinkley
lots of hugs and kisses. Next was a quick bite of breakfast at the Creamery in
Town and a trip up to visit with Catherine to turn in money and receipts from
the week. Collected our mail and off to Reny’s for a few things and then to my
haircut. I finally got my shaggy noggin trimmed very nice and short again by
Jordan at Crossroads. She did a great job and I walked about ½ mile along a
nice paved path back to the launder mat where Fred was doing our laundry. Along
the way I noticed a nice big robin standing on the side of the road. Something
seemed odd so I went over and she just stood there – I wondered if she had been
hit and was stunned. I walked right up to her and picked her gently up in my
hand. She stayed perfectly still and I ran back to the edge of the forest to
let her go. As I put her on the ground she flew up and around me and entered
the forest. I hope she will be all right.
So we finished
laundry and headed to the vet to get more meds for Sac. Did a few more errands
and then went to the Sea Dog Brewery in Brunswick for lunch where we sat
outside right along the strongly flowing Androscoggin River. The river was very
high with rapids due to the recent rains.
It was very pleasant to just sit and relax and have a nice lunch.
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| Sea Dog Brewery and Topsham's Bowdoin Mill (image from net) |
After lunch we
decided to drive North for a change and go to Wiscasset to see what was up
there. As we drove up there we noticed little strawberry stands along the side
of the road and thought to get some on the drive back. We got to Wiscasset with
a bit of Friday traffic and parked a walked a little bit to get some ice cream
and walked around a bit more. I did stop in a gift store and got the neatest
plush blue/gold lobster. I had to get some friends for him so I picked up 2
blue jellyfish and a neat blue starfish – all stuffed toys. They would look
real nice in our guest bedroom as décor for our personal guests to enjoy. So
back we went stopping at a Shaw’s grocery store near Wiscasset to get our food.
Continuing on the way back south we did stop at a little strawberry stand and
got a quart of berries. Onward we went back to Bath to exit where we got caught
on the shipyard road letting out all their employees at 3:30 pm. Workers
everywhere and the traffic stopped for 5 minutes as the workers mass exited the
shipyard. Then to Phippsburg and back to
the dock to catch the Guppy. Ethan was just pulling up as we got there and
unloaded our stuff. We had a nice sunny cool ride back to greet our Friday
warriors ready to head home. We were greeted in the water by the local Seguin
Mermaid who looked very much like Cyndy!
Our Mermaid left a watermelon in the fridge for us. How nice.
There was a great big beautiful sailboat mooring in the cove. On the
beach were two young gentleman who just got there and they were photographers
who were going to spend all night on the island getting spectacular night shots
of the lighthouse and stars and Milky Way. Fred and the guys loaded up the tram
with all our stuff and I gave the hand signals to have it reach the top. After
unloading we had a nice chat with the photographers and told them about the
trails and all about the lighthouse and ourselves. They wandered off and we
relaxed outside in the warm still sunshine on a glorious late afternoon. I sat
outside with Sac and cut all the tags on my purchases and Fred laid out on a
bench to nap a bit.
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| This is NOT Seguin, but we hope to have a actual picture posted later |
The sea critters
look really cute in the guest room that is shades of white and blue. I do hope
Kim makes it out here to see and stay. Around 7 pm two gentlemen showed up from
a sailboat in the cove and were interested in being up in the tower at sunset
to take some pictures. I told them that would be fine and we chatted a bit and they
busied themselves for an hour. At around 8:15 pm they returned and I took them
for a tour up in the tower and we enjoyed a pretty sunset with Mt. Washington
and they got some nice pictures. Went back down to secure everything and we had
a chat with the photographers who were excited for evening to come for their
night pictures. They showed us some of their spectaculars shots of other
lighthouses and we were curious to see what they would shoot here. We were
exhausted from our busy day and had leftover casserole and raspberry squares
from the day before for dinner. My wrist was till aching so I finally took some
Bayer Back and Body and it did help a lot with subsiding the pain. We kept just
the lights in the living room on low in the evening so we wouldn’t disturb our
guests. I even washed up by candlelight and went to bed that way- hmm just like
in the days of old. Really feeling like a genuine Keeper!
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