I've got nothing for you.......

3:58 am - Thursday - September 13th - Southwest Harbor, ME - 59º F, 98% humidity, wind 1 mph out of the east.....partly cloudy skies with a forecast 69º F.  Why so early?  After being here for just over 4 months we are finally getting up early to go see the sun rise on Cadillac Mountain.  Sunrise today is 6:09 am.....a much, much more civilized hour to view the rising sun than back in May when the sun rose each morning around 4 am!!

It seems, as I sit here pondering the events of Wednesday that I've got nothing for you.......except that we 'slept in'.  It was the morning after the deluge, and the sun was out.  There would be no flood of Biblical proportions this day......just a lot of very damp patio furniture.  Our big goal of the day was to do a small shopping at Southwest Food Mart, and get haircuts......yes, haircuts.  For me it has been just over 4 weeks since my last coiffure, but for TLE it has been about 5 months, and her hair is as long as it has been in years.  I puttered around most of the morning as is my wont.  Finally, around 11:30 am we decided to make the 1.5 mile drive into town to first visit Harbor Barber for the aforementioned coiffures.  

Much to our mild dismay Harbor Barber was closed....wait, what?  It's always open!  Well, apparently now that the 'season' is over Tanya needed a day, or two to take care of personal business, but she will be cutting hair again on Thursday.  No problem.....we are, after all, quite flexible.....we are retired....what else do we have to do, hmmmmm?

We headed directly to the Food Mart to do our small shopping, and were home within the hour.  We'll do a big shopping when we pass through Ellsworth on Friday on our way off Mount Desert Island for the final time.  Yup, the day of departure is upon us.  While we are both excited to be rolling our wheels again, we find ourselves somewhat wistful at the same time.

Our time here on MDI has been wonderful.  Even the job was alright, even if our employers were lacking in the proper social graces.  We met many wonderful salt of the earth people during our sojourn, and we would both be the poorer had we not met them.  We have hiked, biked and seen everything of interest to us.  We will never forget the amazing views we experienced on each of our hikes.  Every one was unique.  We hiked closed to 45 miles of trails.

Later in the day we finished watching season 1 of 'Jack Ryan' (8 episodes in all), and are now looking forward to season 2 whenever it comes along.  That was really the extent of our day.  Thursday will be mostly spent putting away the rest of our stuff which essentially amounts to coiling up our rope lights and stowing them until we need them again.  Also, we must get our trailer turned around Thursday so we can drop it on the Newell hitch Friday when we depart.....right now it is facing the wrong way.

Yup, as I said, I really had nothing for you, but thanks for stopping by, nonetheless!

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We didn't see that coming......

7:20 am - Wednesday - September 12th - Southwest Harbor, ME - 62º F, 98% humidity, wind 3 mph out of the north.....cloudy with a forecast high for today of 67º F.  Looks like we'll get some sun today.

It began raining just before midnight Monday night, and continued almost all day Tuesday.  For about 3-4 hours it rained like there was no tomorrow.  It was so loud I had to turn the TV up to maximum volume to barely hear every other word.  For those of you who missed my 20 second video yesterday morning of the rain, and what it sounded like here it is again.....

.....this was not as loud, or as hard as it got......just multiply this by 10 and you'll be pretty close to what we experienced.  And that was pretty much our day.  I did not venture outside one single time.....I already know what it feels like to be soaking wet from rain in just a few seconds.  All I can say about that is we did not see that coming!

So, what did we do?  Well, we watched the 10th and final episode of 'Pacific', and, of course, it was a tearjerker, but so well done!   Neither of us realized the characters portrayed in the series were real people, which makes it even better yet.  From there we then transitioned to binge watch 'Jack Ryan' (based on the Tom Clancy character), another Amazon Prime series.  We got all the way through episode 7 before my U.S. Cellular data ran out.  We'll finish it Wednesday when the data reloads for another month!

And that brings up another thing I have not written about too much.  We are so glad we purchased the U.S. Cellular plan as it seems we can work off Tony's WiFi only a little over half the time.  For some reason we have not as yet ascertained, it begins to drop out each day around 5 pm.  We then switch over to the U.S. Cellar hot spot for the balance of the evening.  Overall it has worked well for us considering our circumstances, but we are so looking forward to being back in Verizon land in just a few days where we don't even have to think about broadband.....it's just there all the time!

We had talked about possibly driving into Ellsworth Tuesday since it was going to rain, but no one knew how hard it was going to rain, and for how long.  You just never know here in northeast Maine.  Once we saw what we were in for we opted not to drive into Ellsworth as it would have no doubt meant we would spend most of our time there trying to dry our clothes.

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