25 July & 26 July 2011 Bachelors

I have noticed that when Amy is not around, I tend to condense my entries into single post; I’m pretty sure I do this because she keeps me grounded & focused, and when she is absent my mind tends to wander more.  That said, Amy clearly is ashore at the moment, to go to a job interview, in preparation for reality to come slamming back in five weeks when our stint on Seguin ends.  This summer has flown, absolutely cruised by, and I suspect I’m going to leave scratch marks in the beach when they pry me off of here. 

Enough moping about events that have yet to happen.  On Tuesday Amy & spent a quite morning puttering around the Keeper’s Quarters, doing little bits of cleaning, straightening up, and packing.  Father & his brother, Uncle Kevy, came out around lunchtime to visit for a few hours.  We ate lunch, wandered around a bit, Dad & Kev helped me rip the final two pieces of wood for Dory (the gunwale pieces being 13’ long in a continuous chunk were too big to handle myself), then we packed up Amy into the Lovely Linda, and ashore they all went.  Darcy & I enjoyed a quiet evening of sanding down the gunwale pieces, mandolin playing, & reading, and went to bed prior to a massive thunderstorm that rolled through around 2200.

I woke up Wednesday morning, not to Amy’s smiling face, but to a heavy & stinky dog lying across my chest.  Obviously I got up early, made coffee, and started a surprisingly productive day.  After breakfast & filling the cistern, we walked down the North Trail to find the connecting part of the loop, which is the last trail I need to clear.  We blazed a path I will cut over the weekend, than headed back to the south side, and I cleaned the Whistle House before lunch.  Around ten visitors showed up in a single wave around lunchtime, and then I didn’t see anyone else for the remainder of the day.  I spent this afternoon mowing, and then the usual swim, shower, & mandolin practice. 

Tomorrow Darcy & I go ashore until Saturday morning, to join Amy, and go to Seguin Summerfest.  It’ll be nice to see Amy, my folks, give the dog a bath, & get a hair cut, before returning to the island again.