The Lightkeeper's Blog

Despite excellent efforts from all concerned water remains unavailable at the taps in the Keeper\’s Cottage here at Scituate Light.  We have become expert on the bucket generated flush. Wednesday… Read more

Today began with Julie being able to wash the dishes and make her morning pot of coffee.  Since about ten o\’clock though the water has been at a trickle.  We… Read more

The wind is  the enemy today. Read more

Storms have been in line for several weeks now with no end in sight.  We had one significant tidal event as well.  Snow is up to the sky and as… Read more

A great number of changes are introduced as we close in on a complete 6 years here at Scituate Light. The color is the soft green of Irish memories.  The… Read more

On the top – a Gingerbread house made by long time friend of the blog, Julie Turner. On the bottom – Mat Brown works his magic. Hope all the visitors… Read more

The Christmas wreath climbed the Light in a gale yesterday.  I had put together a kit to make the installation easier than it has been in years past and I… Read more

A power outage last week took out the cameras.  I have been pressed into service in a couple of out of town settings and did not check out what was… Read more

The cameras are live though I have had trouble getting them from time to time with all three browsers I have tried.  At school I have all three without a… Read more

I swapped routers this week as the one I had in place was two generations old.  I upgraded and the signal all around the house is markedly improved.  The downside… Read more