Life to me is seeing the beauty in what is around you –
Seeing the history and enjoying the minute –
Being grateful that you have been able to see that moment in time.
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The warm rays from the sun – sand beneath my feet – casting a shadow – living our dreams!
Sherry walking – we have come to always head to the beach –
and as Sherry says ” SEE OUR OCEAN”!
But – as soon as we start the one half mile walk
we can actually hear the surf.
When there is a storm somewhere OUT THERE –
the waves get large as well as the sound.
Listening – as we walk closer –
and then – breaking the plain of the dunes
we see the waters – cresting – wave after wave
Warn sunshine – large waves –
making the music we love
OUR OCEAN – so we have come to call it!
Much too soon – it is back to the parking lot and straight up the street
to our gate back onto the gated community!
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I forget the name of the place we stopped for lunch –
but Sherry knows it from recommendations from friends
and our landlord!
It is Mexican – and has the best taco’s!
We have walked by it numerous times –
and she has said we must eat there!
It sits right on the ICW – Inter coastal Waterway!
We requested outside for social distancing!
We wear our masks – we do take them off when we are not around people.
Or – when there is room to stay distances away from them.
The view of the waterway is awesome –
watching the boats – walking the boardwalk
all while sitting at our table after the walk.
Enjoying being outside –
After lunch – we walked – around the area – enjoying the feel of Christmas.
By the time you are reading this – the Holidays have passed –
for I write ahead on a schedule I have created.
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If you want a place of solitude –
a place to reflect –
A place untouched –
just water – sand – and sea grass and the head of a marsh
on the Ocean –
Then head to the far end of CHERRY GROVE – S.C.
We decided since it was a rather cold – 55 degrees –
very windy day – bursts of blasting winds!
We would drive North along our beach road –
to the end of Cherry Grove –
we had seen a covered beach entrance there
and wondered where it led to!
Now – we had no idea – where this path would lead us!
But – it also broke the bursts and gusts of wind!
We found where the development ended and the natural beach began!
No one was here – and I thought – when it gets warmer –
we need to come back!
We started out walking – but the wind made it hard!
Sand was blowing across our path and some stinging our eyes!
It was so calming – and I thought –
this is what the beach looked like hundreds of years ago!
As far as you could see – no buildings – no people!
The tide was going out – exposing the flat beach!
But – it was really blowing –
making the walk almost too hard to do!
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We came across a large tree – almost covered with sand –
The ocean had deposited it there.
I wondered just where it came from?
We decided to turn around –
we had walked 2/3 of a mile!
We would come back and explore father.
One for another day!
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Our daughters gave us five grand daughters –
family dinners were 8 females – 3 males!
And then – along came BODE!
The first grandson in our little family!
Even when he was too little to walk
I would push him in the stroller
and one time we passed a open garage door
and he became very excited – pointing to a car parked there.
It was a antique Corvette!
He is all boy – trucks – bikes – helmets and no shoes!
Off he goes outside – no snow – no ice and no shoes!
Riding his bike – playing baseball – chasing his sisters or running away !
He has this thing of bare feet!
Every morning as I drank my cup of coffee –
when we stayed with them before we moved South
Down the stairs he would come
early – 6:00 am.
And “Hello Papa” !
And climb up into my lap as I wrote my blogs!
First boy in the little family.
He and Cassidy are two peas in the pod!
Yet – he loves Taylor – calling her name.
Cassidy is the protective one – always watching over him.
All three together excited – I can not tell who is saying what
if I am not in the same room with them.
For his Christmas – we gave to him – his first little set of golf clubs
a bag – balls and tees.
There is a video of him his daddy took
Hat on backward – ball on a tee in the fairway
stepping up – the ball falls off the tee – he picks it up
places it back and steps up to the ball
His stance perfect and all of a sudden he swings
You hear the club hit the ball – and his daddy laugh
It leaves the tee and sails down the fairway!
“WAY TO GO BODE” his daddy says!
I think we have a soccer player and a golfer!
I am not too old to enjoy what the years will bring!
First grandson – all boy – yet sentimental – caring for his sisters.
One day he will be the one protecting them!
Happy birthday little one – BODE – six years old – first grandson!
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As we start the new year – 2021 –
Hoping that this year will be better than the last!
We now are officially in the South!
But – the family is spread now out more than ever!
My two sons and daughter in law are all back in NWPA.
They run a energy – audit company that contracts with the state.
Very successful and ever growing
Troy runs the crews – Trisha the office –
and Shawn the audits.
This is all done with grants for the elderly
by both the state and the power companies that serve the elderly.
Sherry has two sisters – one still lives back in NWPA
The other outside Raleigh N.C.
Both are retired as is Sherry who also runs her own
network marketing company from where ever we live.
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We are now across Pa. Va. N.C. and a possible Tenn.
Kristy – Nigel – Bethany – Natalia – Nathan – Tammy – Debby – cousins.
The family has grown over the years –
today you see in the first picture that growth.
As we age – it seems that get together’s get less and less.
Being so spread out and so diverse –
logistics and time make it almost impossible to bring it off!
2020 has been a tough year – a time of forced seperation
social distancing – less travel – moving away.
It also has brought us together with Zoom calls
text messages and phone calls.
But one thing is for certain –
family always remains strong.
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Our friends – Jim – Dottie – Buck and Cindy – came for a visit!
And we planned to golf two different days!
The last day was at Oyster Bay – not very far from Calabash
The Seafood capital of the world
and home to many – many “GATORS” on the course!
BIG GATORS!
We had a gals vs guys match
and off we went –
I had listened to other players who had finished
talking to the starter about the “GATORS”
and how big they were!
We saw them a lot – esp. on the middle holes!
One par three – surrounded by water – except a small walking path
lined with flowers and tall bushes
kind of sketchy walking through there
had a drop zone right next to the green.
And a large sand trap.
Well – right next to the drop zone lay a six foot gator!
Dottie actually hit her ball and it landed on the green and rolled into the drop zone!
Where she left it for some future golfer to find as it ws too close
to that six foot gator!
We had a good time regardless –
you just did not look for golf balls as I think snakes are also here!
We enjoyed this course despite the “GATORS”
being a fun course to play.
Lots of fairways and marsh – small lakes – water everywhere!
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And yes – on the course called OYSTER BAY!
With all the “GATORS”!
It came down to the last hole – number 18 !
We had a boggy – long par 5 – missed putt and they pared!
GALS ONE UP AFTER 18
35 to 36!
70 to 71 !!!!!
I told you Jimmy – they are too good!
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All the grand kids and their parents with Sherry and myself.
When this picture was taken – the only thing we had planned
was for her 16th. birthday – we would take Ella to Florida with us for a week.
She would go to Hollywood studios to see Star Wars!
When each grand child turns 16 – we do something special with them.
Maddy wanted to swim with the Manatee’s and we did that!
As the year progressed – plans were made and soon – we would leave for one month in Florida.
But first – quality time with the young ones.
Although now she is only ten years old – she comes up to just under Sherry’s chin.
She is going to be very tall and loves horse back riding!
Many friends visited over the 21 years we lived outside D.C.
We acted as tour guides – and in the year past – we toured almost every facility
there was to visit including the Capital Building which was a first for us!
We also venture to outside Raleigh – N.C. to visit her sister.
Here – we went to a farm that had what are called BELTED COWS – GOATS & CHICKENS!
They are white with a black belt around the middle!
Never heard of this and never saw this before!
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The grand daughters were in school – Maddy had to go to work –
So Sherry and I went with Debby to run some errands
and then to go on a hike!
A new trail had opened over Thanksgiving –
in Winchester Va. !
Sherry and I did 2.20 miles with Debby –
and then she ran back the way we had just walked
we continued on and met here in the parking lot!
She runs every day!
Debby is a QNMD with the Juice Plus Company
following in her mother’s footsteps
health and nutrition are a big part of her families lives!
The trail itself is made of crushed limestone and very easy to walk on.
There are gradual hills and trees – shrubs – and open fields.
Many nature groups who are volunteers –
clear out under brush and fallen trees!
We are going to bring the rest of the family back for a hike!
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We have been gone from their home two weeks.
Yet – almost every day – one of the little ones
will face time or call.
Cassidy loves her MORMOR
she is the one who I think misses us the most.
She would come down those stairs to say good night
give hugs and this would happen several times!
She was always asking when we would come back.
Bode – so much like Cassidy but all boy!
Every morning without fail
from 6 to 6:15 AM.
Down those stairs he would come or if I were on the front porch
climb up onto my lap.
” I LOVE YOU PAPA”!
As simple as that!
Taylor or “T” as I call her
so mature – so kind – who only wants to ride horses!
She takes lessons once a week –
She knows how to groom them and saddle them
how to clean their hooves.
“T” who just wants her ALONE time-
in her room reading or playing with her horses and lego’s!
We spent almost three months with them
One time they spent a year with us.
Sherry is their “MORMOR”
Swedish for MOTHER’S MOTHER!
That is all they have ever called her.
Yes – missing the three little ones
The older three are growing up
one in college – one about to graduate
and one who wants to be with grandma!
The three little ones – who are young enough
to see we are now at a distance and call all the time.
And then there is Tammy – their mother
who in all her life has never lived more that two hours away
This is where the little ones get it from
MORMOR – MOTHERS MOTHER
Tammy – Sherry’s daughter
The family lives on –
“WE LOVE YOU MORMOR”
Yes LITTLE ones – she knows with tears of joy!
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