Labor Day 2020 extended weekend

Finally getting around to blogging our Labor Day weekend on Mount Desert Island the last week or so. Like last year we did a Thursday – Tuesday stay, plenty of time to kickback and get out and abouts. Lois and Jim were in the site next to us. Also on a nearby campsite friends of Carol and Lois' family were Grayton and Jamie. Of course COVID-19 was still a factor with the campground office/store relegated as a office only though firewood could be purchased with our credit cart account. and use of face masks and social distancing was fully in effect even on the hiking and bike trails.

Did some socializing with Carol and Lois' cousin John S and wife Linda and their friend (and ours) Inga where we had a lobster dinner.

Carol and I did a 3.5 hour, 5.4 mile hike on Friday of our stay.

Great Notch Trail – Had a long stretch of elevation
climb though the trail was easy to navigate.

Long Pond Trail – Lead us down slope to Long Pond
where the wooded trail followed the shoreline back to

where we parked the truck.

Saturday at Inga's for lobster dinner. John S is a
lobsterman so we came by the lobsters directly
from the sea.

Biking the Carriage Roads of
Acadia National Park – Monday we loaded the
bikes into the back of the truck and headed
to a one of the entrances to the Carriage roads.

 Great weather the whole weekend, great eats and

company. Great way to spend the holiday weekend.

Dipping a toe in the employment water

Up to this point of being laid off, the corona virus pandemic and dealing with unemployment compensation I've been at odds whether I should be seriously searching for a job given that I will be retiring in September. At that point I'd be taking Social Security payments and withdrawals from my retirement savings. Until recently there was no mandate to be actively looking for work and as the mandate did take effect emailing resumes have been disingenuous as I have no desire to work full time. That being the case I signed on with a national and a local temp agencies. The local offered some work that I thought might be fine but as it turned out put me in a situation with people who were cavalier with social distancing recommendations among several other issues. With that I'll wait out the situation for the next few of weeks and pick up a life of a sometime blogger and home and yard baron, much as I'm doing now.