August 31st,
The last day of summer for most… a mile stone of time to go back to “work” and busy-ness of life. Yet we get a few more weeks of summer. Yesterday was a lot of planning… how do we get home? Fly? If so do we get tickets but what if we are later than expected? How do we get our stuff back? We could leave most of it; who needs summer clothing in the winter? How do we get the cat home? It cost $100 each flight so if we have connecting flights it is each time… silly! We could rent a car? Oneway? Where? Where is Deanna when you need her ha ha ha she picked us up last year. The car we sold (that was Ben’s favorite car, we are a one car couple now doing what we can to reduce the carbon footprint and simplify our stuff and life .. anyway) Becca and Jason sold it for us… THANKS A MILLION! But the check had not shown up….We were in desperate need of kitty litter peeuow-stinky! Our propane was on our last little bit but no one sells propane the kind that they fill, most just have those returnable big size and we have a little size… (I don’t want to spend 7-10days at sea with out something warm to drink!) So we needed to do some thinking and actions.
We set out to wifi… combed the main street (all two blocks of it) for coffee and wifi… here in Maine you pay for your wifi we found out. Well we found coffee and sat down at the chamber of commerce bench and started our wifi and there was a free one just waiting for us to use it! I can’t tell you how God just helped our day but let me try… oh while getting coffee we stopped in the hardware store to see if they might have kitty litter nope but the lady knew there was propane fillers here! No way!! We have looked in so many ports almost giving up on the fact but here they have it down the street! The seven eleven type store had kitty litter! The park had wifi! We made a few calls about that check for the car that never came. Phew we have the scanned check but usbank does not offer that service yet of depositing scanned checks. Darn… we looked on wifi for airplane flights… hummm…. Then we looked for car rental… it seems car rental would be cheapest considering a cat and luggage. It was all coming into place when we got a call from Melissa that the check finally came!!! It is all coming together with divine help. One less thing to figure out! I did a few emails but still cannot connect to the server at home??
We felt good in our accomplishments! We took the bus successfully to the right place and started walking up Cadillac mountain! The north side… I was nervous my foot would hurt (having foot problems) or back or knees…. Man it is hard to get older in your body! But I took one step at a time and we were fine, me, my body parts and Ben. Then we reached the top! Amazing view. We decided to walk down the west side the “cliff” side. It was fine at the beginning and then it got steeper and steeper and worse and worse but I still took one step at a time and to my surprise no aches and pains (well besides the fatique… for the past 3 weeks ben and I have sailed a day walked a day kayaked and kept on going in that fashion) I wish I could describe the climb but then again no one would believe me what Ben and I just climbed down! It was the biggest climb of my life, for sure- no doubt! Even pictures wont show how steep it was… the altitude descent was 1100 feet in 1.4 miles and we switched back and forth and climbed down and down and down big boulders and rocks, trees and more rocks.
Afterwards feeling of great accomplishment we put our feet in the pond water below and I could feel a surge of relief that it was done and I was safe and all body parts were fine! Today the weather was 90 degrees and you should hear the natives from Maine complain about how hot it is! Funny!!! Now Deltaville THAT WAS HOT! This is nothing. Even when we talked to the bus driver about where to get off he said, “It is too hot to climb the mountain today.”
We made our way on the bus to Bar Harbor (Said like, “Baa Haa Baa”). We ate and went to a comedy improve show the first time Ben had been to a comedy club! I thought I was sheltered… (not) He surely has been. It was a funny show. We had to call a cab cuz the buses were done for the evening.
Now it is morning and I was thinking getting out of bed would be challenging with stiff and sore but nadda, none, nill, nope all good here.
The remnants of Hurricane Earl should be here thur-sat sometime. It doesn’t look like much will be here if you ask me… but the mooring yard has moved us to a different mooring one that will hold our weight better…
That is all for now… the wifi only has enough strength to pop in text if that.
Love you all and God loves you best.
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