Thought for today:
The world is full of poets, many of whom should wake up and smell the roses and see the world for what it is - a place troubled by people; for what we whisper blows away on the wind to be shared by whoever is listening, but what we shout in anger is lost forever.
Ferries: All as normal today.
We recommend checking the ferry web site if you are travelling any great distance, click the link: Cape Clear Island Ferries.com
This blog is maintained by Cape Clear Island Hostel: www.capeclearhostel.com
Wet or Dry:
Rained overnight - just the way we like it. It will be dry throughout the day.
Sunny or Cloudy:
Same as yesterday, and the day before - very sunny from the start and not a cloud in the sky- another sensational day on Cape Clear.
Night Sky
Clear and Jupiter still shining brightly - does this happen only on Cape.
Temperature:
Warm from the start and becoming much warmer during the day.
Windy or Still:
No wind.
Sea Condition:
Calm.
Tides - approx:
High: 05.15
Low: 11.37
High : 17.35
Low: 23.57
Using 24 hour clock
Birds: see also http://capeclearislandnews.blogspot.com/ .
During October
Short Eared Owl
Merlin
Collared Flycatcher possibly.
Barn Owl
Red Flanked Bluetail
Red Throated Pipit
Red Backed Shrike
Pied Flycather
Ring Ouzel
Chickens x 5: Maggie; Oraiste; Teapot; Billybob; Ginger
Plumage: Starting to moult - quite a few feathers in the chicken house.
Eggs: 3
Flowers
Roses looking lovely - pink and gorgeous..
Marigolds are huge and lovely.
Dahlia is in second bloom
Fuschia still looks good.
Sinead is tearing the hillside apart with her bare hands, getting rid of the fern and bramble.
Started building a herb garden a month ago using the front wall at the north end of the house as a backdrop.
Too many other flowers to mention them all.
Vegetables from the walled garden
Lettuce - picked leaves for dinner
Onion
Tomatoes (nearly ended)
Carrots
Spinach
Cabbage - one is nice and plump
Beetroot
Potatoes
Planted turnips
We had tomato,carrot, and onion soup a few evenings ago and it was lovely mmmmm!
Water Shortages
Please use water sparingly as water is still rationed on Cape
Fishing:
NA
Books: Currently reading:
Henry Martyn Field's History of the Atlantic Telegraph, published 1866:
The story of the heroic struggle to connect America with Europe.
Terry Coleman's Passage to America, published 1972.
Favourite Poems:
All are architects of fate,
Working in these walls of time,
Some with massive deeds and great,
Some with ornaments of rhyme
Nothing useless is, or low,
Each thing in its place is best
And what seems but idle show,
Strengthens and supports the rest.
For the structure that we raise,
Time is with materials filled
Our todays and yesterdays
Are the blocks with which we build
Truly shape and fashion these,
Leave no yawning gaps between
Think not, because no man sees,
Such things will remain unseen
In the elder days of art,
Builders wrought with greatest care
Each minute and unseen part,
For the Gods see everywhere
Let us do our work as well,
Both the unseen and the seen
Make the house, where Gods may dwell,
Beautiful, entire, and clean.
Longfellow
