Thursday, July 30

Up and at ‘em this morning. I helped Brenda get the bathroom windows unstuck while she continued to scrape the paint off the bedroom floor. She spent the whole day giving tours to our daily visitors and working on that floor. After she scrapes with the razor blade and scrubs with steel wool she uses the paint thinner and finishes with soap and water. After that is done and the paint spots gone she waxes the floor. Looks pretty good!

Meanwhile I went to the cove to give Ethan a hand off loading visitors. While I was there I decided to cut the grass again. That’s getting old. The grass is supposed to be dried up by now, not growing, brown…..dead. Not this year!

I got it spruced up again and headed back to the lighthouse. By now it was close to 1700 and the last visitors were leaving. Brenda went back to her floor work and I picked the meat out of the lobsters we got yesterday. There really isn’t that much meat in one of these things, but it is good. Same thing can be said of our Maryland blue crabs. A lot of work for a little meat.

Sunset looked promising this evening and I got a few pictures before the clouds took over. Today was warm and it felt like summer again.

In the afternoon I opened the door to the well house to turn off the switch to the pump and guess who was there? Lawrence de Esuom. A smiling Lawrence de Esuom. I said “Where have you been?” He said “I’ve been doin a lot of thinkin. I remembered when that man used the axe on the piano and thought about the woman I never seen again. Then I thought about not seein any more women. I tink I suffered from PSTD or something like that. I was tramertized. It seems the more I thunk about it the better I understood and then I seen it! I seen a little girl goin in that lighthouse. I couldn’t believe it. I was sooooo happy! Then I begun seein more of ‘em! I think I’m cured!”

I said “Lawrence, that’s great, I’m glad you worked things out, but do you know if they can see you? If they can they’re going to be upset”. Lawrence said “Why would they be upset?” I said “Have you looked in a mirror, do you know what you look like?”

Lawrence said “No, what’s the problem?” I said “Find a mirror or puddle of water or something and look at yourself. I’ll see you again soon and we can talk then.” Lawrence then scurried off. I hope he doesn’t surprise himself.

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