It has been a fairly dry summer and the rasperries are delicious. We pick and eat them on the way to the beach. I made a raspberry-apple crisp and brown betty. Yum.
There were engineers here last week with free time and they had an edible plant book. They were picking sumac tops for a lemonade like drink. I made some yesterday. It was pretty good and I am here to talk about it.
It feels like a bonus when the island gives back.
It has been a fairly dry summer and the rasperries are delicious. We pick and eat them on the way to the beach. I made a raspberry-apple crisp and brown betty. Yum.
There were engineers here last week with free time and they had an edible plant book. They were picking sumac tops for a lemonade like drink. I made some yesterday. It was pretty good and I am here to talk about it.
It feels like a bonus when the island gives back.
We were in a quandary. It was foggy and silent. The fog horn wasn’t working. At the risk of having the horn blow all the time, we did the right thing We contacted the Coast Guard and they walked us through resetting it. Then the fog lifted. The photo is the fog detector with authorized personnel nearby. All is quiet for now.
Sometimes the best plans go awry. Yesterday I traveled by dinghy, boston whaler, commuter train and taxi to catch an AMTRAK train to NYC. I was doing fine until the train sat two hours outside Stamford, CT. Then they announced we would be there indefinitely because of wires on the tracks.
We had 5 minutes to decide if we wanted to leave the train because they were going to pull up to a platform briefly. Passengers were irate, some were crying and yelling.
I made 3 friends after we shared a cab to NYC. Two guys from the UK were Iron Maiden groupies in NY for a concert and a woman from NY is about to release her first record album. We laughed and traded stories and email addresses and then parted on 42 St.
— Sent from my Palm PreI was determined to reveal the old helipad yesterday. No easy task since it was totally overgrown and I didn’t have a shovel. I tapped around and uncovered a few of the bricks and then I had to imagine the triangle with the "H" in the center. Then I just had to follow the yellow brick path. Now the Coast Guard can find us. Next I will repaint the bricks.
Tim’s obsessed with clearing sumac. There is ssomething for everyone here.
This is the view I see when I get up. Incredible. Boats are working or just passing by all day (and night), seagulls and other birds sing all day (and night). A few years ago, we decided to try to live in beautiful places and we are. We spent two summers here; one on Seguin Island in Maine; a winter on Fire Island and will return to the Adirondacks before traveling to Deal Island in Tasmania.
Island and North Country Life 