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the road by the gully. The rain barrel filled many times over. [[strikethrough]] Last night the deer came in & ate daylily buds, helenium tips & the lathgus blossoms & tips. the oil. [[/strikethrough]] In evening went to Sampsons (also Nancy Wyner & June Dale (?)) for anagrams etc. Tues 29th - Put twigs in pea row & in cucumber patch. Sally Kallem spotted a sparrow hawk on Gussaw roof & called me over to look thru binoculars. [[underlined]]Heavy[[/underlined]] fog today; the air is cool! Wed 30th - Spent all day framing, photographing & wrapping 2 W.C.'s [[watercolors]] for Boothbay Show. Rained briefly today again. Vegetables all growing well. Made "Spaghetti with pesto" (basil & parsley) & had it with steamed clams. Played games here at 9 pm with Samspons & Elliot Hubbard. Thurs 31st Visitors to studio - mostly dull. In evening to Sampsons - singing, guitar, games, Fri Aug 1 - saw sampsons off on their boat the Columbine. Ed took us over in punt to the boat - stayed 15 min. I dislike boats. Fog rolled in just as they left island. Delivered 2 ptgs to Balmy Days. Picked veg. for Sally's supper. (& some for Henry) Supper: Nancy & Dick Lewis & us. Talked mostly about houses & homes & apts - & New Zealand - & Alan Curnow. Sat. Aug 2 - Rained for 2 hrs early am. Heavy air, thick fog, damp air. No wind. A depressing day. Kelly & Gertrude Greenberg dropped in for tea this afternoon. G. smoked mackerel in fire place. First zucchini. Swung the new w.c. [watercolor] over to a more dramatic sky. The possibilities of evocation in ptg. are limitless.