Thursday, June 4

USCG showed up this morning and the light is ON! This will be our first night with the light on. I spent the morning at the cove, cleaning more of the beach and started to sort out the stuff in the engine house.

About noon a group of seven showed up in their Maine built Pulsifer Hampton (a type of open boat built locally by Dick Pulsifer in Bedford, Maine) powered by a Yanmar diesel. They landed in the cove and I gave them a tour of the engine house and history of the tram. I then accompanied them to the top and we all had lunch. They were from just across the way on Small Point. We could see their house from the island. Naturalist Beth Bullock was with them. She listed the flora and fauna of Seguin in 1990. We invited her back to spend a few nights and update the data. She said she just might do that. FOSI board member, Emily Chandler, brought two of her friends from school to see Seguin.

I showed them the signal house and the light. Things were “buzzing” inside the lighthouse….literally. When I opened the door you could hear the buzz from the light. Then they visited the store and museum.

Then it was back to cutting grass and refilling the water cistern in the basement. The “Cistern Chapel” is the holding tank for water pumped from the well. Water from the cistern is pressurized and that is what feeds the house. Unfortunately, the well water is not drinkable… full of iron and other minerals, but it is OK for showers, cleaning and other general use. Where, do you ask, do we get our drinking water from? We bring it from the mainland in large containers, in the boat, up the hill and into the house. Last year FOSI installed a filter system in the basement of the house that should supply us with potable water. I will hook that up soon and it should eliminate the need to make the water run every week.

Brenda is wiping up the floors and preparing the dining room for a fresh coat of paint. Weather report sounds great. I suspect we will have a busy weekend.