Tuesday the 24th was our second day out. It was a much better day than our first day. Uncle Art thought that we wouldn't get as much lobster as we did on Monday, but we actually got more. We ended up with 813 pounds, with only 160 traps hauled! Thats 5 pounds per trap which is very good. We got in around 3:30 PM.
After we got home, all 3 of us went to get 20 more bales of hay.
Wednesday was a shorter day, but still very foggy. We set 10 traps and hauled around 100. We weren't getting a lot of lobsters and ended up with around 300 pounds. We got in around 12:30 PM. I started to write my introduction for my Extended Essay when I got home.
That night I talked to Lillie who was with one of my best friends Ben and they were traveling with her parents through Maine. She said they were coming to Rockland tomorrow and Aunt Pennie said we could have them over for dinner. I said we could visit some other things in rockland also so we made a plan for Thursday to meet and then have a large lobster feast! Thursday I would have off of work since we hauled all of our traps we had out Monday - Wednesday.
Thursday morning I was able to sleep in until 7 AM. I woke up and worked a bit more on my introduction for my EE, then Aunt Pennie and I went to Walmart. We got some more food, some cheese crackers, cheetos, bananas and stuff to make guacamole for Thursday nights feast with Lillie, her parents and Ben Gair.
Turns out that Lillie's dog's eyes were red and puffy so her dad had to stay at their cabin and it would just be Lillie, her mom and Ben coming. They got to the house around 3:30 PM. We showed them the house, yard and the chickens, and LuLu of course.
It was a pretty nice day out, and we all got in the car and drove to Owls Head Lighthouse. It had closed at 4 PM but we still were able to walk around it.
There was a small rocky beach that we went to right next to where we parked our car to visit the lighthouse. We made some cairns:
We next drove to Main street in Rockland to walk around. We walked up and down Main street and went in a few stores. We went in a candy store that I had been in many times before when I've been down to Main street. It was around 5:20 PM so we went back to our car so we would have enough time to walk the breakwater.
Ben, Lillie and I walked all the way down it and back, it is 7/8ths of a mile long. It was very windy on the walk but it was fun. We thought we would be back to the house by 6:30 PM, but we got back to the car around 6:30 PM and got home around 6:45 to have our lobster feast! We were having the lobsters that Uncle Art and I had caught on Wednesday. Along with the lobster we had some salad and guacamole that I had made earlier. I never had liked lobster in the past but I ate it this time and it was very good, Ben and I had 3 lobsters each. Uncle Art taught them how to eat them.
Around 8:30 PM, after we had finished dinner and our dessert they started to drive back to their cabin because it was about 2.5 hours away by car. It was fun to have them up for a day off that I had.
Friday, I had another day off and around 1 PM I went to Aunt Pennie's friend, Catherine's house to practice the piano. She had a grand piano and let me practice there for about 3 hours. I practiced the Arabesque, and I also began to try to relearn a piece I played a long time ago. It is also a Debussy piece called Reverie. Her piano was very nice.
For Dinner that night Aunt Pennie's friends Alex and Laura had come from Georgia and we all went out to eat in Rockland. We ate at a place called Rock Harbor Pub and Brewery. They had a lot of good things on the menu that I wanted such as nachos, but I ended up choosing a chicken wrap. It was fried chicken inside a wrap with a really good sauce. It was very delicious and it came with these fries that were perfectly done, and perfectly salted also.
Saturday, Uncle Art and I were back to hauling. We had a not long day. In the morning it was bright and not a lot of fog. Most of the day on the water was perfect because it was bright and there was barely any fog, but near the end of the day the fog somehow came back and we could barely see around us. Luckily we finished around Noonish. We weren't catching many lobsters, we only got about 330 Lbs.
July 24 - 28, 2018
That night I talked to Lillie who was with one of my best friends Ben and they were traveling with her parents through Maine. She said they were coming to Rockland tomorrow and Aunt Pennie said we could have them over for dinner. I said we could visit some other things in rockland also so we made a plan for Thursday to meet and then have a large lobster feast! Thursday I would have off of work since we hauled all of our traps we had out Monday - Wednesday.
Thursday morning I was able to sleep in until 7 AM. I woke up and worked a bit more on my introduction for my EE, then Aunt Pennie and I went to Walmart. We got some more food, some cheese crackers, cheetos, bananas and stuff to make guacamole for Thursday nights feast with Lillie, her parents and Ben Gair.
Turns out that Lillie's dog's eyes were red and puffy so her dad had to stay at their cabin and it would just be Lillie, her mom and Ben coming. They got to the house around 3:30 PM. We showed them the house, yard and the chickens, and LuLu of course.
It was a pretty nice day out, and we all got in the car and drove to Owls Head Lighthouse. It had closed at 4 PM but we still were able to walk around it.
There was a small rocky beach that we went to right next to where we parked our car to visit the lighthouse. We made some cairns:
We next drove to Main street in Rockland to walk around. We walked up and down Main street and went in a few stores. We went in a candy store that I had been in many times before when I've been down to Main street. It was around 5:20 PM so we went back to our car so we would have enough time to walk the breakwater.
Ben, Lillie and I walked all the way down it and back, it is 7/8ths of a mile long. It was very windy on the walk but it was fun. We thought we would be back to the house by 6:30 PM, but we got back to the car around 6:30 PM and got home around 6:45 to have our lobster feast! We were having the lobsters that Uncle Art and I had caught on Wednesday. Along with the lobster we had some salad and guacamole that I had made earlier. I never had liked lobster in the past but I ate it this time and it was very good, Ben and I had 3 lobsters each. Uncle Art taught them how to eat them.
Around 8:30 PM, after we had finished dinner and our dessert they started to drive back to their cabin because it was about 2.5 hours away by car. It was fun to have them up for a day off that I had.
Friday, I had another day off and around 1 PM I went to Aunt Pennie's friend, Catherine's house to practice the piano. She had a grand piano and let me practice there for about 3 hours. I practiced the Arabesque, and I also began to try to relearn a piece I played a long time ago. It is also a Debussy piece called Reverie. Her piano was very nice.
For Dinner that night Aunt Pennie's friends Alex and Laura had come from Georgia and we all went out to eat in Rockland. We ate at a place called Rock Harbor Pub and Brewery. They had a lot of good things on the menu that I wanted such as nachos, but I ended up choosing a chicken wrap. It was fried chicken inside a wrap with a really good sauce. It was very delicious and it came with these fries that were perfectly done, and perfectly salted also.
Saturday, Uncle Art and I were back to hauling. We had a not long day. In the morning it was bright and not a lot of fog. Most of the day on the water was perfect because it was bright and there was barely any fog, but near the end of the day the fog somehow came back and we could barely see around us. Luckily we finished around Noonish. We weren't catching many lobsters, we only got about 330 Lbs.
July 24 - 28, 2018