Rain, Rain and More Rain

Saturday, September 29, 2012

Rain, Rain and More Rain

It was a chilly morning. It was 56 degrees inside the trailer and 49 degrees outside. But I never felt the 56 degrees inside because Tom turned the heater on when he left for the wash house. I got the good one.

We tried waffles this morning for breakfast. We use a Belgian Waffle Iron on the stove. The first one turned out very nice. But the second one was a disaster; one side didn’t stick to the waffle iron but the other side did. He had to scrape the waffle from the iron. We hoped that soaking it would take the remains of the waffle off the iron. I took the iron to the wash tub outside the wash house which is intended for washing dishes and anything else that needs it. Using a brush that is intended to be used on non stick surfaces the iron was made “clean” in good order. Now we are wondering if the waffle iron is still good or does it get thrown out.  [sigh]  We did enjoy the pancakes made with the rest of the waffle batter.

And again, even with a new smoke alarm, the alarm went off with the cooking of the waffles. It has always done that. Tom even bought a new alarm hoping that it wouldn’t sound off but it did. Don’t know what’s going on with that.

At about 10:15, 53 degrees and showery we headed out to do the things that needed to get done: find the church, find the restaurant and buy some water. When we go camping we go prepared with the name and address of a church and then always go looking for it so that we know how far it is, how long it takes us to get there and what time the worship services are. We just don’t like to be surprised on Sunday morning. We were surprised to find out that St. Andrew’s is almost next to Darling’s Chevrolet dealership. We KNOW how to get there! It’s an easy less than 10 minute trip to get there and we know that the worship service is at 10:30.

And another thing we have been doing in the later years of camping is to go to a restaurant for Sunday breakfast. Looks like this year we will be going before we go to worship. Tom had remembered seeing a sign outside a restaurant saying that it is open every day at 6:30 but he didn’t know the name of the restaurant or where he saw the sign, except that it was on our way to the RV park on Wednesday. So we went looking. And we found it. We will be eating at the Governor’s Restaurant on Sunday morning before worship.

Now off to buy groceries. We did not see a supermarket in our travels through and around town. However we did see a Wal-Mart. It just irks me to support Wal-Mart but I had no choice. We made short order of finding what we wanted and left.

We put our purchases away and it was soon lunch time. We decided to eat and go out “sight-seeing” anyway despite the showers and generally misty weather. We ate, gathered the camera, scenic tour book and water bottles and were off to see what we could find en route and at Schoodic Point which is off of Rt 1 onto the Schoodic Peninsula. What wonders there were to behold! Even in the showery mist one could see that the leaves are beginning to turn color. We are about 2 weeks early but Maine is a fine place to see them start to turn color. I took about 100 pictures around the peninsula, mostly of the water. Everywhere there was water. Some of the places had soft waves lapping the shore while other places boasted big sassy waves hurling themselves at the rocks making white sprays of water. This was at Schoodic Point, the very end of the peninsula. Even on such a gray day as this it was a wonder to behold. And we spotted a light house on our trip around the peninsula. They are wonderful to see. When we were in the area of the point I could hear the bell buoy exclaiming its watchfulness. It was like music.

After we finished on the peninsula we headed north again to see if we could find the “Maine Coastal Island Wildlife Refuge” as stated in our Scenic Tours book. But what we found was the “Downeast Coastal Conservancy” which is involved in environmental conservation of the whole area. There was a trail from the parking area but we didn’t take it on this rainy day.
The road on which we found the conservancy seemed to be a back road in Maine. The houses were not well maintained and yards were full of various odds and ends. There was one yard that had lobster traps stacked high and wide. Almost everyone seemed to be in the lobster business in one way or another. I wanted to take a picture of the yard but missed my opportunity going in one direction and couldn’t find it going in the other. Oh well, I saw it and I will remember it.
We turned the van toward our “home away from home” at about 3:30 and were there about 4:15 at 59 degrees. We had driven about 100 miles today. Then we “crawled in” for a short nap before dinner. And as another tradition was upheld tonight, we had corned beef hash and peas for dinner on a rainy day.

Dinner and dishes are finished and we sit here for a quiet time before bed; another day finished. We are 69 degrees inside and 55 outside. With all of the cloud cover we may not have such a cold night. We shall see.