Day 99, 24 Aug

66 Visitors

Cyn's Preliminary Sketch of the Lighthouse at Night

A beautiful, cool morning greeted us today with the promise of a gorgeous day. Our overnight guests had a nice breakfast on the porch in the morning sun. I stopped to say hello and chat a bit. They decided to have pieces of their scrumptious blackberry pie to finish off their morning feast and I was the lucky recipient of the last remaining piece!  I heated mine up and put a fat blob of Muddy Boots ice cream to complete the decadent morning meal. I also gave our visitors their very own fat blobs to garnish their pie slices, it was the gentleman’s birthday after all. Fred was down at the cove and came back in time to receive the last bit from my plate. He looked a bit sad that he missed the debauchery but I assured him there was the other piece from last night still in the fridge that we didn’t get to. We shared a single piece last night with the ice cream. I managed to finally finish the Icelandic horse book while sitting in the surprisingly hot morning sun for just a few minutes of relaxation before the visitor hoards ascended. While I hosted some early private boaters for a tour, Fred swept the guest quarters, made the bed and put back the freshly washed dishes for new arrivals that were to come on the 11:30 am ferry. He went down to the cove to prepare for the ferry arrival with guests. I squeezed in a shower and grabbed two cranberry/cherry/orange muffins for Ethan and Brooke and headed down to the cove for a rare welcoming from me. We greeted the first dinghy load from the ferry and I went ahead up to the kiosk to escort the first set up to the lighthouse and start tours. I got 2 tours in and stopped for a few minutes to greet our overnight guests and help with the tram in getting their stuff up to the house. After doing that I went back to tours and the gift shop. Fred came up from the cove and was able to take over tours and gift shop also. We had our usual two-hour frenzy of visitors with a few private boaters thrown in for more work. After the ferry left there was a slight lull and we were able to have lunch of my leftover chicken casserole. No sooner did I finish my lunch and Fred started his were there visitors to host again. Our lovely overnight guests this time were a very nice family of mom and dad and their two children, a boy and a girl. They brought the bananas and cupcake liners as I requested and also gifts of dog chews for Sac and a nice bottle of wine in the cutest cloth bag with an embroidered lobster and neat little rope handles.

Simple Sunset

Fred started to mow the upper lawns and I opted to go down to the cove to look for beach glass and take a hike around the peninsula from Cobblestone Beach. It takes him about 3 hrs to mow the grounds around the lighthouse.  I got halfway down the main trail when I saw some new visitors and had to turn around and come back up to give them a tour. There was another group that appeared after them. So much for a relaxing afternoon to myself. I also gave a nice private tour to our overnight family. After their tour I hosted another tour with visitors who appeared. At about 5:45 pm I could finally make my way down to the cove to look for sea glass during the low tide. I found a few choice large interesting pieces and even a nice rare cobalt blue chunk. 3 of the visitors came back down to the beach to return to their pretty navy blue and white sailboat moored in the cove. While the one man got their dinghy ready the other two waited and I chatted with them. The lady asked if she could smoke on the beach and I said yes but could she take her cigarette butt with her when she left.  Right before she left in the dinghy she gave me some beach glass from Monhegan Island (we can see it about 8 miles in the distance to the east) and a donation for the lighthouse.  How kind of her to do that.  It made up for my delayed afternoon and I was glad I gave them a nice tour. At 6:30 pm I finally hiked down the Cobblestone trail with my pruning and got to the beach. I went to the right on the rock cliffs for a little inspection of the next cove area and circled back around to the trail end. I didn’t feel like hiking the peninsula now that it was late and not sunny. Near 7 pm I climbed back up to the house after checking the two donation boxes at the kiosk and outhouse. Got back in time to see the quiet simple sunset. The family had grilled steaks outside and were enjoying their dinner on one of the big rock formations popping out of the lawn. I brought Sac out to see the sunset with us at the sunset bench. After sunset I fed Sac her cooked chicken and kibble dinner and had enough light to dig out two fresh carrots from my garden and gather some lettuce and chives for salads. Since the grill was

Fred Relaxing Watching the Sunset After Finishing the Mowing

still hot Fred cooked up two hamburgers for us and I nuked two potatoes and pan fried them with onions and garlic. We had two grilled corn on the cob with dinner that were donated by the family. We managed to have our early dinner at 8pm! I made up the salad after dinner and stashed them in the fridge. I was quite tired after dinner and a delicious glass of blueberry wine from our friend Bertha that had sent us the bottle for a thank you.

I took a little nap on the couch and awoke at midnight to fetch my salad for a late snack. Fred had already eaten his. So in my usual late night fashion I stayed up to write this blog before getting tired again and off to dreamland. Dreams of yummy blueberry wine and closing days on a beautiful day on a delightful island with a stunning lighthouse, watched  all over by a sparkling glass queen of the night.