Day 72, 28 July

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The new GIFT SHOP Sign that Cyn Painted

Monday started off with heavy fog and, at times, very heavy rain.  The haunting fog horn tooting all the time.  Fred started the day with a walk down to the cove in the rain, out the cove trail, along the rocks and back the cobblestone trail.  Since it was not very cold, he wore a rain jacket and wore just his underwear down below.  This way his pants or shorts would not get wet.  Cyn worked on the blog, which we were a little behind on.  Once Fred returned, he entered the blog along with some relevant pictures.  The rain continued on and off most of the day.  There was a break in the rain around 1500 so Fred and Cyn went down to the cove to mount the new GIFT SHOP sign in a prominent position where arriving boats could see it.  Cyn decided to look for mussels in the cove but could only find one so she looked for sea glass instead. It continued to brighten up and due to very brisk winds the lawn dried a bit.  Fred decided he had time to mow the upper area lawn before it rained again or the heavy evening dew settled on the grass.  He just finished the 3-hour job as the grass began to get wet from the dew.  When he finished he couldn’t find Cyn.  Looking around he noticed her violin was missing.  Aah, he said, she is playing

Flowers in one of the Cove's Flower Boxes that Cyn Planted in June

in the tower.  So he grabbed a snack, drink and iPad and headed up the tower.  Sure enough, beautiful music was echoing down the tower.   Cyn was playing away and Fred sat and enjoyed his private little concert.  It took her a while to get her hand comfortable to play. Her injured ring finger still ached a bit and the entire hand was aching after playing for 1.5 hours. She hadn’t played since her brother Karl came for a visit around July 10. During the “concert” a violent rainstorm hit and battered the tower with sheets of rain.  This was accompaniment for Cyn.  We could still hear the foghorn tooting and Cyn tried to find the note on her violin – it was close to an “A”. Some rain water even got on the great lens due to the vents blowing the rain up from the outside. Cyn gently wiped off the blown raindrops on the prisms and polished a few more. The rain finally subsided, and the dark skies opened up, ever so briefly, as it got dark.  Cyn made a salad full of all kinds of fruit and veggies (much from our garden) and Fred cooked up some salmon fillets with garlic and herbs.  He chopped up some mango slices and we used this as salsa on the salmon.  We both stayed up a bit, Cyn knitting, and Fred doing finances on the computer.  We managed to watch the news at 11 and the beginning of Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight show.  Off to bed, thinking about a group of sailing ladies arriving in the morning.