Author: Catherine

Sam and I get up very early and start working. I’m putting away kitchenware and pantry goods, trying to make some reasonable decisions about the best place to put things. Sam is working on the front door, which doesn’t close properly. We can see that there is some distortion in the sheet rock above the doorway. Sam doesn’t think there is enough support across that area for the second floor.

Sam makes a trip to the Hancock Grocery to get tea and dishwashing soap, two items that we can’t go forward without having immediately. Moving in caught me by surprise and I didn’t think ahead about immediate necessities.

Sam is trying to figure out the weatherstripping and takes it out of some of the windows. We install screens in two of the windows because it can get hot in the house. We can’t identify who makes the windows.

About noon, we go out to camp taking the van and the car. We pretty much clear out the camp taking all the food, the road bikes, the bed and bedding, and all of my daily stuff that I used while I lived there for a few weeks. We deflate the kayak and clean it out, putting it over our heads to swipe the debris out of it. Ants had built a nest in it quite quickly when it was out in the yard. Lorna is super helpful getting the camp cleared out. She and I drive back, while she holds the kombucha up in the air the whole way to prevent sloshing. Gypsy kombucha now has a home.

There’s no shower curtain in the bathroom. Lorna and I both take showers and get water on the floor. Lorna gives me a bar of soap because somehow I don’t have any and I borrow her shampoo. I also can’t find our regular bath towels, but I find two thin beach towels that will work for now.

Sam comes back from camp and we head out to the Folk Festival on the waterfront in Bangor. We had a great time. We ran into Patrick there. Hakim and the Chamberlains were serving Stone Fox Farm Creamery ice cream. We saw two performances The East Pointers and the Tuvan Throat Singers. Also a bit of the Treme brass band.