Moonlight over Seguin

It’s time to leave Seguin for the season. Moonlight over Seguin The Monarch butterflies are taking over the island and… Monarch butterflies my socks are done! Seguin socks

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Final days on Seguin 2011

Our last days are full of activity. The weather is exceptionally nice and visitors arrived by ferry, lobster boat and kayaks. Lobsterman are back to their traps after several days ashore because of bad weather. And we’re closing up the house. In an effort to preserve our clothing, we were removing some things from the [...]

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Today was a good caretaking day

Miraculously, the rider mower we worked on last year unsuccessfully, runs like a charm! We’re not sure if it was used this summer but I was able to mow crop circles around the upper 40, near the keeper’s quarters and lighthouse. I love that mower and was so happy to have enjoy it running again. [...]

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Low flying rainbow

High pressure arrives A cold, high pressure system blew the fog away today. The wind was dry and from the north, so Tim headed out to one trail to work and I went to another with our respective weed whackers, more delicately called whipper snippers in Australia. He had the good sense to get back [...]

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We are not alone here

Well of course not. We have the cats with us. But even during the storm last night, a boat was tucked in behind the lee of the island. They must have been waiting for the tide to change because the weather didn’t really get better until later today and they were gone by early morning. [...]

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Outhouse bound

 We’re in the middle of a four day storm.  Hurricane Ophelia is passing offshore tonight stirring up the wind and water.  There’s no way on or off the island for a few days, which is always interesting. It makes me just a little more cautious.  No power tools, careful walking the quarter mile or so [...]

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Microwave mystery

Getting to know an old home again has it’s benefits and disadvantages.  I can’t figure out one of the icons on the microwave. I’m not sure if I ever knew what it meant but now I am curious. Middle row, right. I understand the cup with wavy lines over it will heat my coffee.  Defrost and [...]

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Acorn soup fog

It’s great to be back on Seguin. Today the fog rolled in and so the foghorn is blowing.  I made a curried apple and acorn squash soup and worked forever to replace a broken window pane.  All’s cozy now.   The weather report said we had “uncharacteristically high astronomical tides” today.  Something must be up [...]

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A long way to go

After a six hour drive to Popham Beach, ME, our stuff still had a long way to go.  Naturally we arrived at dead low tide and we had to lower everything by boat hook, including two cats, off the fixed pier to the Seguin Ferry below.  On the other hand, low tide exposed the beach [...]

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The bridge is now unabridged

The road crew returned, put a few more boards and supports down and announced the bridge is unofficially open. With a running start we may make it over the hump.   I took advantage and went shopping to buy some of the heavy items we’ll need on Seguin Island next week.  Time to plan for [...]

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