Saturday saw humidity levels dip sharply into the high 40's. It was cool, partly cloudy, and wonderful all at the same time. We've been under quite a humidity siege here in Southwest Harbor the past two weeks, but it seems, I could be wrong, but it seems things, weather wise, are getting back to what is considered 'normal' for this time of year. As Mainers would say...."It's not humid, humid anymore.....it's just humid".
We had no great ambitions for Saturday. I planned to watch most of round 3 of the PGA golf tournament being held in St. Louis this year. Coverage for round 2 had been rained out Friday afternoon around 4:45 pm eastern time with 77 players still on the course so they had to finish round 2 early Saturday morning having those 77 players begin playing at 8 am eastern time, so it was already on TV when we turned on the TV around 8:30 am. They finished around 11 am, and then within an hour round 3 began. They managed to finish round three just before sundown. It was a very exciting day if you are a Tiger Woods fan......he began the day tied for 35th, and finished tied for 6th at 8 under par, and only 4 strokes behind the leader. So, in all, I watched about 11 hours of the PGA on Saturday. I haven't been able to do that for quite a long time!
We left home for about 30 minutes to drive over to the Bernard Post Office (Bernard is a Village within the township of Tremont) to drop off some mail, and drove out to Seal Cove which is what the locals call the 'Back End'. If you live there you are called 'Back Enders'. 'Back End' refers the geographic location of Seal Cove being on the backside of Mount Desert Island. We hoped to catch some new views of the ocean, but as it turned out, the views of the ocean were very limited, so we turned around near Seal Cove Pond and headed back to the Newell where we spent the rest of the day watching the aforementioned PGA tournament.
I busied myself from time to time with things in the trailer such as unpacking my new tires for my Cannondale Bad Boy, which I will install in the next couple of days. The tires on the Bad Boy are about 4+ years old and are becoming a little thread bare, so it is time to replace them. I vacuumed out the trailer, and the VW......both had a lot of sand left over from our 2+ month stay in site #78 at SDC.
We ran the A/C for a couple of hours midday, but by 3 pm we turned it off, turned on our FanTastic Vent Fan and opened a few windows to let the delicious, cool air flow inward as it vented out through the FanTastic Vent Fan. We have used our new fan frequently in the past two weeks, and cannot imagine how we managed before we installed it. I guess it's like a lot of things in our modern lives.
Having been alive way before computers and cellphones I know what that was like, but now I wonder how we existed without these modern conveniences back 'then'. Now we have instant access to information, to directions, to YouTube videos, which show us how to do things like replace a drivers side rear view mirror on a 2000 Ford Expedition. If we are driving down the road and see a sign for some attraction we can look it up instantly and find out if it is worth stopping to see. If our car breaks down in the 'middle of no where' we don't have to flag someone down and ask them to drive to the nearest town and send a tow truck.....we just call for one on our cellphone. We don't have to use 'Liquid Paper' to correct typing errors on paper anymore....we just backspace over the typo on our phone, or laptop, retype the word, and it's fixed.....no muss, no fuss. We don't have to xerox a letter, or important papers we are mailing to make copies of it/them for our records, we just 'SAVE' it, or 'scan' it to a computer file, and it is there forever taking up little if any space. We don't have to use 'snail mail' to transmit important papers knowing it will take, 1-3 days for it to arrive at its destination, we just 'email' them and they are there seconds later. We don't have to visit the library to do research......we just get on our phone, or laptop and type in a subject and receive thousands of links from Google to that subject matter within a split second. If we want to know what the extended weather forecast is we don't have to wait for the evening news to hear the forecast.....we just look it up on our phones, and it is updated every few minutes.......it is just amazing what we take for granted today. Cellphones and computers make the kind of fulltime RV lifestyle we choose to live possible, quite manageable, and comfortable. We truly live in interesting times.
Well, we have now been unemployed for about 6 days, and are regaining some equilibrium in our lives. After 6 nights of good sleep combined with several naps each day we feel great again......we are back in control of our lives. We will never, ever take a job again were we cede so much control of our daily lives to any one person, or organization. We will work on our terms, or not at all.
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