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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On a clear day, I can see Mount Washington

And I think it’s about 80 miles away from Maine. The skies finally cleared, after five days of rain and fog, and it was worth the wait. The air was so clear we could see straight to Mount Washington. Mount Washington We were watching the sunset from the catwalk of the lighthouse and then got [...]

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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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Fog horn and fog light

I remember the first time I noticed the lighthouse’s unique effect in the fog at night. The vertical bars in the windows project out as shadows and it looks as if there is a huge umbrella originating from the light, providing protection for those under it. There’s even a lot of bird activity at night [...]

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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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