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| We will Miss Her! |
Our last full day here opened up in the fog.
I raised the flag and fed the seagulls. Since the tide was still out for a bit
I crossed over and looked for agates. I looked for 45 minutes till the tide
started to cover up the dragon’s back. They weren’t easy to find but when the
skies brightened with the sun I was able to finally see the yellow-orange,
jelly-clear agates and found about 8 very small ones.
I crossed on the dragon’s back and went on up
the hill to the lighthouse. We had a breakfast of leftover popovers and
biscuits with fruit. We started some packing and gathering up of possessions.
We took a break and caught up on the soap
operas. I got some good knitting in and we had a lunch of French bread pizzas. A
shower and more packing was done.
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| The Lighthouse Caught with its Light On |
At 3pm we decided to open up and give a few
tours since there were people about. We were posted as closed on the schedules
but when we opened the door and asked people if the wanted tours they were so
excited and happy. The first group was a family of 4 from Massachusetts and
were so grateful for a tour. Dottie’s neighbor showed up with family and were
very happy to get a tour also. I got a phone call from the incoming RVer’s and
they asked if they could come over to look around with some family and I told
them that I could give them a tour. So the new RVer’s got to hear the tour
twice from bottom to top and would be more comfortable and ready to give tours
themselves. Fred mowed all the lawns and did some weed whacking to clean up the grounds for the next keepers. We closed up at 6 pm and got some leftover rosemary chicken with
yellow rice for dinner. We boiled two ears of corn after the chicken and had
those. I took down the flag and decided to repair her and sewed on it for about
3 hours while watching Erin Brockovich movie on TV and the news. I wanted to
get that done before I left, since she was a bit tattered. Hopefully this will
make her last a bit more. I repaired the flag at New Dungeness one evening a
few years ago – another duty for a lighthouse keeper to do, lovingly for Old
Glory. It was getting late and I fell
asleep in the comfy lazy boy upstairs. I awoke at 3am! Yikes, I washed up and crawled into bed at 5am
for some much needed sleep. It was very foggy outside when I looked out the
windows. The night before I took a walk around the lighthouse and gazed upon
the light as she came on for her brief 3.5 seconds. I could see the dark lines in
the fog from the supports in the lantern room. There was the undulating fog
wavering through the light for that brief time and it was the same as I had
seen at Seguin in Maine. I love that view of the eerie fog passing through the
emitted light – like ghosts flying about. I captured it in a painting I did
while on Seguin. So off to sleep I went seeing the faint glow
of the dutiful little lens reflected out the window when she came on. Soon daylight
started to emerge as I spent my last night’s sleep on this special spot in the
sea. How we will miss her and look forward to taking care of her in the future.
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