Between Ranting And Running Did We Get Boondockers Come By

Holy Smokes!  It’s August!  I feel we just started our tourist season yesterday. But 2 months have gone. We have been very, very busy. Tours across the island have been requested like never before. And Bea has been “living” at the Motel. I see her under breakfast and then again just before supper. Our garden has been requiring attention for the rest of her time. 2 days ago she went picking cherries and came back with a 5gal. pail of it. When the jam-production started we came home with big bags of sugar. It’s not only cherries now but red currant before that and now raspberries ….and then in just a few weeks, blackberries. WE LOVE JAM IN THE MORNING! And right in between we got boondockers from the west coast coming by. A young family of international making from Richmond, BC. Rainer is German and his wife from Japan. They stayed with us for 2 nights before they had to head on to NYC. We hope to see them again one day. They are campers after our heart. Whenever we have had friends coming by, the talk of the day was “The Donald” and his many tragic embarrassments he is bestowing on the U.S.A.. Well, I say ”tragic” as they neither benefit his candidacy, nor the international reputation of the United States. There is, however, a silver lining as they are benefitting the other presidential nominee and that is where this tragedy is going to save a Nation from catastrophe. So will we rather forget that those people who won’t see Mr. Trump enter the Oval Office, are going to be very, very much disappointed. But I assume they will soon overcome this. They will go back to be watching Fox News for another term. Ya know, he was the wrong horse to put your bet on. I am happy to say that Campobello has been blessed with welcoming visitors who are happy to see the summer residence of one of the most outstanding democratic reform Presidents of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt. But now I have to run….    Sunset over Passamaquoddy Bay

YEAH…FOGFEST GO! The UMM UKULELE CLUB

As it should be, the 3. day of the Campobello Fogfest started with thick fog. Fortunately, it disappeared during the morning hours, though the sun did not break through the clouds for long periods, keeping the temps at around 70F. We have been looking forward to tonight’s performance of the University of Maine in Machias Ukulele Club at Jocie’s Porch. Expecting a high turn-out we went down to Jocie’s half an hour before start, but were flustered to see that most of the chairs were already occupied. When the Ukulele group (there was a lot of other instruments) were all lined up and started playing, the audience started vibrating. Soon, Jocie’s Porch was swinging and rocking and everybody was like being electrified. Every song they played went right into people’s feet. If there would have been enough floor space, people would have started dancing. 2 hours and everybody wanted MORE, MORE, but after several more pieces the audience got off their seats for a standing applause.            And in the evening the fog was waiting out there Campobello went crazy for these folks from Maine. Thank you, thank you and come again next year, please.

The 4th Annual Campobello Fogfest

People do a double-take when we mention FOGFEST. What is that? Well, we can’t do away with the fog, once it starts rolling in, so we might as well celebrate it. And today was the official opening of FOGFEST 2016.                         And the RVs have been rolling in all day long. The many free concerts are attracting a lot of people over to the island. I went down to Jocie’s porch where a crowd had gathered to listen to the first musicians. Our mayor had some appropriate words for the opening before the musicians moved in.  Again, it was a hot day and after the opening I went home and chilled inside the house.

Jokingly….