Late July, Early August 2012: Monday July 31

Sal and I are here for a week.


since i've had a hard time posting regular, complete entries, i'm going to try posting in a periodic note format--roughly once a day. here goes...

monday, july 31, 2012

peg, sal tw breakfast at upper: bacon & poached eggs by peg
sal went to farm stand and took a leek, among other things: corn, chard, summer squash & eggs
ads picked up dan campbell, roofing fuy from wh demmnons, at 10:30a boat
dan came to upper and looked around. observations:
- wouldn't have selected shingles for such a shallow roof
- flashing on chimney too low (snow goes up over)
- flashing on pipes goes up too low (snow goes up over)
- proposed pvc roofing, dark grey
- proposed removing gutters
- proposed having carpenter on call to see what they find for rot

sal and i went on sail around long and pumpkin nob
pumpkin nob took a while to get around as we were in the lee of peaks and fighting current
flew chute on way back. both of us sat at end of seats with cushions and reclined, steered to keep chute full.
got back, and went for a run (standard 3.2 miler)
made din: grilled cheb summer squash, grilled sausages, quinoa, joyce-and-lyle-wedding-hand-picked-blueberry-pie in little cast iron pan. cute and scrumptious. see photo on the facebooks.
rowed to lyra to retrieve ads' left iphone
came back and ate pie
read on couch
to bed

Inaugural Trip, 2012: May 13-17

Sam, Luke, Sally and I were the first ones to the island this year.

Sunday, May 13
Sally, Sam and I arrive on the noon boat. As has become a first-trip tradition, we stop at Whole Foods for food and drink, at Skillins for plants to begin the garden, and at Maine Roasters for a caffeinated beverage to revive our spirits. There's a new white bus this year, instead of the normal blue one.

Sam, Sally and I get started on tasks right away. Sam rakes. Sally clears the garden. And I do yearly opening-up tasks: remove chimney cap, get cars going (escort started after battery charge and right rear tire pump, mini started right up but no gas in tank), put new registration stickers on cars and put registration and insurance paperwork inside, do a walk through of the houses--which look great since Cindy and her crew had come.

Luke arrived on the 3:30, and Sal and I meet him in the Escort.

Monday, May 14
Today's the day we install Daddy's headstone at the cemetery.

4th of July 2011

Saturday, July 2nd
I left SF. My flight was at 10:30pm, and I touched down in Portland at 9:30am Sunday.

Sunday, July 3
Arrived at 9:30am. Peg met me at the airport, and off we went to Whole Foods.
Got to island on (newly scheduled) 1p boat.


Monday, July 4
The annual fun-run!

Tuesday, July 5

Wednesday, July 6

Thursday, July 7

Friday, July 8

Saturday, July 9

We all (me especially) wished Sally could have been here with us, but we were also excited to think of her on the other side of the globe in Beijing!

Memorial Day 2011

Sal and I were the first ones to the island this year. We had a wonderful late May trip with sailing, cooking, eating, gardening, and relaxing. Snippets of our time:

Gahden
Tomatoes were planted

Boats
Dinghy was painted and commissioned
Lyra was commissioned
Jib was chewed by mice, patched and washed.

Cah
The mini had issues once again, failing to start. The starter got jammed, Clint came to the rescue and got us out of the jam.

Trees
Trimming ensued to provide gahden more sun exposure.

Yahd work
Lots.