Friday, August 7

Mark, Donna and the boys left this morning. Ethan picked them up at 0930. It was a beautiful morning with temperatures in the seventies. They have a whale watch planned out of Boothbay and then on to Greenville for a moose safari. They are getting the full Maine experience.

Visitors were showing up first thing in the morning so Brenda went back to the lighthouse. I stayed in the cove area to clean the restroom and mow the grass….which continues to grow.

A flotilla of sailboats moored in the cove and went up the trail to the light. Every mooring was taken. It was a busy day.

After mowing below I went to the shop and started up the riding mower. The grass had not been mowed in two whole days and it was showing. Four hours later I was done and we watched a thunderstorm form along the coast. We caught the tail end of it. The temperature dropped almost twenty degrees in five minutes and the wind veered from south to north and picked up considerably.

Tonight the temperature may go into the forties.