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A Month Later
Today’s project, (really the last two glorious, warm November days) was the boardwalk. It is in the yard and stacked for the winter. I rolled it up in record time even with a lot of conversation yesterday from visitors. The forearms take a beating on the two wheeler but the legs seem good. I got […]
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Thursday Morning in a Hurry
Here is the promised timelapse video of the project as it unfolded on Thursday morning. All the hard work is obvious.
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Taking off the Top
This is an easy one to write. The pictures tell most of the story. On Thursday October 6, 2022 the lantern room placed at the top of Scituate Light in 1930 by the Town of Scituate in order to demonstrate the town’s commitment to the care of its public buildings was removed. Time and weather […]
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Dry and Windy Bro
We begin with fireworks The dominant story of the summer is the continuing drought. The gardens struggled this summer as different phases of a water ban made it untenable to head out each day and give them the drink they needed. Its a chore I enjoy and crossing it off the daily list freed about […]
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Remaking the Connections
The web cams are back on line. I think I backed into success this time but access to the cameras has been restored. We had a brief power outage in the middle of the process caused by March type winds but perseverance is the key to life. While I had this screen up I thought […]
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Get things Growing
May into June means gardens. I have written about wanting to memorialize Ruth and George Downton with a garden. That is now in place. Signage will follow that describes their contributions (only John Cushman spent more time here) with notes on the the building of Lighthouse Park and the October 1991 storm that undid so […]
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Working on things
Odds and ends are on the list for this vacation week. The first step to restoring the Light to full health was taken this week when the townspeople of Scituate voted at Town Meeting to support a Community Preservation Project advanced by the Trustees to rebuild the Lantern Room. I have written before of the […]
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Another Anniversary
Sixty six years ago Scituate found itself with a crisis on Cedar Point. A huge ship had grounded and would bring scores of stories to every neighborhood. Traffic. Oil. An angry cook. A worried captain. Generosity. Selling gallons of coffee and potato chips from a school bus. Dynamite and sea anchors. All of these references […]
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277
Today marks my 13th complete year as the Lightkeeper. The 277 refers to the number of posts in this blog to date. There should probably be more of them but for different times I got waylaid by work, or by sensing that I was repeating myself, or by being laid up with my bout of […]
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A Bright Day After
Early start today as power was restored in the wee hours and we moved quickly off the generator and back onto the grid. This was not a difficult storm. The biggest challenge was the temperature (it is still only 14 degrees) but there were no frozen pipes, no loss of hot water, and no issues […]
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