Wrapping Up A Few Things

We’ll be leaving in THREE days!  It’s hard to believe this summer is over.  As predicted, we had as much fun this summer as we did last summer.

For the first time Mark decided to rent a car while we were here.  We put over 10,000 miles on that rental car before returning it last week!  That’s a lot of mileage that we didn’t put on our brand-new truck. 

Last year I was eligible to buy the National Park Lifetime Senior Pass.  I didn’t purchase one and we could have used it a few times on the drive to Maine.  The only place in Maine to purchase the pass is Acadia National Park.  We waited till the summer season ended then headed to the Park headquarters.  Even with the huge crowds gone for the summer, there were still plenty of people to wade through at the headquarters.  The purchase of the pass went quickly ($80) and I’m now the proud owner of the American The Beautiful Lifetime Senior Pass. 

We are hitting all our favorite restaurants in Ellsworth and Bangor one last time.  86 This, Governor’s, Pat’s Pizza, Helen’s, Shinbashi, and the best Mexican food restaurant in the area, Las Palapas.

We were given our own office and locker at the hatchery.  We kept our waders and water boots in our locker and just a few things like extra hats, gardening tools in the office.  There wasn’t a lot but everything is cleaned out and ready for next year’s volunteers.

Our office

We drove the mower and weed eater up to the volunteer site for one last mowing and trimming.  The area looks nice.  It will be covered with snow in a couple of months.

We ended up with another paint job.  After painting 28 green tanks, we were asked to paint white circles inside those tanks.  The filter screen sits in the middle of the tank and the white circle is thought to keep the tiny little fish from congregating around the filter.  There were always plenty of fish in the white circle so I’m not sure how well it works but we painted 28 white circles.

We knew we would have left over white epoxy paint and Fred (biologist) wanted some new boards cut and painted for various things.  We bought a nice sheet of plywood, cut it into multiple sizes for various projects and had enough paint for two coats on each side.

We also had some left-over green epoxy paint and painted some new dam boards for our newly finished raceways.

One last vacuuming of the walkway over the future brood to get all the old, moldy food off the floor.

We still have a couple of work days left but we don’t have any big projects we are rushing to finish.

Stay tuned.