The parade had been canceled due to weather – rain and strong winds.
Our granddaughter was leaving that afternoon to go back to the Unversity of Lynchburg, Va.
So we made an early trip to NMB with her to take in the parade and see some vendors.
Everyone was throwing candy – shirts – hats – beads!
It was a fun time – and lasted over an hour!
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Maddy wanted to walk the beach and see the ocean one last time before she went back to college.
The parade had been canceled the previous week because of the strong wind and rain.
So – this time our granddaughter Maddy was here but she had to leave in the afternoon –
So we drove to North Myrtle Beach so she could enjoy a few hours of just plain fun –
and take her last walk and see the ocean before she left.
Here Shery and Maddy walk out to the ocean at the main street entrance to NMB.
Hundreds of vendors were set up – food – drink – items for sale.
Coffee for our early morning walks around town viewing the vendors before the thousands of people show up.
We did not carry chairs – and we had front row seats sitting on a towel on the curb.
The parade lasted one hour – and was quite colorful in green and white and orange!
It was a great four-plus hour spending time with our granddaughter before driving back to the house.
Sad to pack her up to leave in the early afternoon – but we had her entire spring break with us.
Our view here I shall always remember – in all we will be here for nine months!
I captured this shot as a flock of geese were coming right at me before
rising up over the lanai and roof.
We decided to build – that way we would have everything we wanted
A single story – no stairs – covered front porch – screened in covered lanai.
Close to the beach ( four miles) in the country!
Close to golfing ( over 20 courses near by)
And with in 6 1/2 hours to travel back home
or family to travel here!
We will have around 1900 sf. of heated space –
in addition to a 140 sf covered and screened in lanai
and a open 10 x 14 concrete patio.
There will be a covered front porch
and views of the neighborhood.
The back will be woods with no one building there
as it will be a conservation area.
We will be four miles to Ocean Isle Beach and six miles to Sunset Beach
A thirty minute drive back to North Myrtle Beach
and a fifthteen minute drive to Calabash
and a fifthteen minute drive to Shallotte.
All this in the middle of some twenty golf courses we will be playing!
But – all the inspections have been completed
and our contractor calls us every Monday to give updates
and answer any questions!
We drive over every Sunday – no one is working!
That way – if it is not raining – we can get out and look it over!
This will be our third house together building.
All three were unique and we have input on all of them.
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The little guy learned that not hiking is in the mountains like he thought!
Crossing streams or climbing rocks – that is all he had ever done on a hike
Showing him nature – the marsh – water – sand – scrub trees –
He learned that there is more to this Earth – hoping to bring him back
in warm weather as we were told you could see “GATORS” then!
They were excited – walking into the trees on the sand path –
looking for birds – snakes – spiders
hearing the sounds and the marsh views!
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In North Myrtle Beach is a club called Fat Harolds – and this is the third location in the last 80 years!
It all started in the early ’40’s – on the beach – a Pavillion – where the beach music scene started.
The original club was taken out in the ’50s by a hurricane.
The music was started in the Carolinas and became a nationwide dance – called the SHAG!
Until the pandemic – they held national and international competitions here at Fat Harolds.
It is a combination of some Jitterbug – Swing – Boogie – and I think either six or eight steps!
You never lose contact with your partner and the intricate steps are fascinating to watch.
This is now our generation coming here to dance – and man are they ever good!
You can tell by the shoes – men and women wear special dancing shoes!
But I see younger people also here – the next generation is now coming –
after all – it now is 80 years and still going strong.
They play all the beach songs – and classics – but there is music and songs dedicated to this era –
and some national bands that play nothing but beach music as it is called here.
Every six months – Spring and Fall – they have a 7 to the 10-day festival – here in NMB –
All the clubs take part – live music in all of them and live music on the beach in the square.
Thousands of people come here to stay and dance.
The Pandemic cut it back but now it is back after a year off.
And Wednesday nights they broadcast live from Fat Harolds – playing all the beach sounds.
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Their first visit and experience at FAT HAROLDS on the BLVD SHAGGING! North Myrtle Beach – S.C.
It was not easy to decide to sell our home – almost everything in it –
and move to another state – some 450 miles away!
It all started with the stock market slide – around the time the Pandemic hit!
Our retirement is in the 401 K and it took a big hit!
But – there is always a but!
The housing market was taking off!
From the last reduction in prices around 2006 –
and losing in that market –
We were now almost even – a rebound!
And it was going up!
With the three oldest grand kids
One in college – one in the fall in college and one who has a life of her own
And the three little ones – we would make it a point to return often –
after all – we were retired – and Sherry had her home based business –
that could go anywhere with phone and internet service
We would sell!
AND WE DID!
After 14 1/2 years – with the downturn behind us in the housing market
WE MADE A PROFIT and had all of our equity!
We followed our plan – sold our house and furniture –
for three months we went back and forth between our daughters houses!
We had our equity to either rent – or buy – we had choices!
Our view today – we left end of September and went to North Myrtle Beach to Ocean Keyes!
Since that time – we have been home twice – holidays for three weeks – and now for a week!
The grand kids have been down – the little ones – and by the time you read this –
the older ones will have been here!
Our family – when we returned for a visit.
We have started a new life – away but close enough to make it home in seven hours.
We are happy in our senior years – living life to the plus each day!
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A new life – walking the beach every day –
We have each other – we have family and we have friends.
It was not easy – but God works in ways I can not explain.
It will be done around the early part of June!
We had no idea a year ago we would be doing this!
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We decided this day would be shopping – a unique store in Calabash called Calahans.
This has been a store of destination for decades and decades.
“L” shaped and 100 feet long or more on each side!
There are thousands and thousands of items – beach – lawn – apparal and holidays – all of them!
It was fun – but I am a people watcher – not a shoper – I know what I want – and I am in and out!
But – Elaine and Steve had fun – I got to visit with a guy sitting on a bench –
and Sherry got to look some more at what she has looked at at least six times! LOL
I told them this is where the locals go and hang out.
There is even a biker bar there!
But our favorite is called “PATIO’S” and sits on the water – has live music –
and good food!
We have a VIEW of the water and boat traffic – plus this is where they dock the two large Casino boats.
It was incredible to watch as it from end to end – you would swear it could touch both shores!
It loads up here – ticket office right there and there were hundreds of people on it!
It goes out to the ocean to the international border line – and then they anchor and they gamble!
We decided to stay – order dinner – I HAD A SALAD –
and listen to the band play ’70’s and ’80’s music!
The food was good and so was the music!
Who keeps me on track and healthy after my heart attack almost 8 years ago.
Sherry has had her own internet – multi level business for almost 16 years.
She has the title of Senior Sales Cordinator for The Juice Plus Company.
Her team is nationwide and is called TEAM GENERATIONS –
helping mothers and fathers –
children and grandparents and now grandchildren –
build their immune systems long before Covid.
Our daughters are also in the business and one has surpassed her mother in both the business and title!
Debby is now a QMND for The Juice Plus Company –
having gone full time as soon as she joined the team.
There are no restrictions on what level you achieve and once there – you never lose it.
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We had read about this famous mailbox – several books have been written about it –
It is a 1.4 mile walk South on what is called Bird Island – an nature preserve –
located on the Southern half of Sunset Beach in N.C.
throught the years – those journals have been preserved and are considered historical writings –
and are preserved in a museum! I do not know which one but I plan to find out.
NORTH MYRTLE BEACH – when on Sunset Beach – go South and I think at 40th. street – the end –
just find a place to park alongside the road – be sure your tires are completly off the pavement – and if a bike path off that also.
Then find the beach access and come to a sign at the beach – it tells you the distance to the mailbox and further down the beach – the jetty and the mouth of the river – where the Casino boats from Little River enter the ocean – going out to the International border line to gamble.
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We decided to just get out on a nice day and run some errands – the twins birthday is coming up –
and Cassidy and her MorMor have been in conversations every day – she ( Cassidy) calls
at least once a day and relays on Taylors thoughts! LOL
for birthday gifts to do for the twins. We are flying home – had vouchers we had to use – and will be kid watching
for a extra long weekend – as their parents are going to a wedding.
It also happens to be the twins birthday!
I wanted a coffee and a place to sit in the shade to people watch while Sherry went to the stores she wanted to go to.
She bought a unsweetened ice tea which I watched over for her while she shopped.
Here I am sitting outside the food court under a huge umbrella – sipping my coffee – and just enjoying
a very beautiful day with a slight breeze!
everything you can say “These people are going home from vacation – we get to stay”!
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Every Friday – in season – 94.9 THE SURF radio station – broadcasts live from the outside TIKI bar!
If you listen to BEACH MUSIC of the last 60 some years – it comes from here – as the station is right next door.
The mail system – well – no matter how hard you try to change address’s – some seems to always slip through.
In the far left corner is where the radio station broadcasts from. Their main station is in this building –
We did not know about BEACH MUSIC until we moved down here.
After all it is only from starting in the ’40’s and right straight through to today – still producing tunes we like.
A lot of the music was what I called MOTOWN but to my surprise was produced for the Carolina beach crowds!
or park and walk – either way it is a deal!
This is where OCEAN DRIVE and MAIN STREET North Myrtle Beach join – at what I call the ARCHWAY
to the main entrance to the beach!
Full of bars and grills – stores – ice cream – hot dogs and fish places everywhere to eat!
– music and free concerts all through the seasons.
We like this area and it is safe to walk around in – I do not care for the main Mrytle Beach –
and I would not walk around there after dark!
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Going back to the “HOOD” where we lived for nine months!
NORTH MYRTLE BEACH – 94.9 THE SURF – HOTO’S bar and grill on the beach.
The Johns now have a lake house on Lake Chautauqua in W.N.Y. A large natural lake some 30 miles long.
For the second year in a row – we have gathered there at the invitation of Carol and Mike –
for a long weekend of telling stories – catching up and boating!
We boated for hours and went tubing twice ( yes I did) and loved it!
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We had planned this – but they had taken Maddy back to college that day and left Ella and Sarah home.
So – we arranged to have the two of them meet us in Old Town Winchester for dinner.
Our friends Buck and Cindy were with us so they got to once again vist the family.
Walking around the yard – does not do it justice as the whole back yard is the same. She has a green thumb.
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They were so excited to be able to go to the beach each day – and it was hot – so we decided late afternoon
would be a better time to go – and they played the whole three hours in the surf – riding boogie boards
diving under the waves and getting us nervous as they would inch out farther and farther –
until I would wade out and move them back in.
Being young as they are is a exercise in pure energy – being old as I am – it was a exercise just to stand and brace against the waves!
But – I loved every moment of it.
We did this for five afternoons – on the last night before the parents came – it was mini golf and Italian ice!
I – they – we had enough of facing the big waves and Bode wanted to play as soon as they arrived.
The twins actually ended up liking the mini golf and a lot of laughs on how each one putted the ball.
Both as different as they are but the results were the same.
The beach – we decided the last time for them – we would go to Sunset beach – and they loved it!
As did we – less commercial – more level and the sand more fine.
And it was not as rough as Ocean Isle Beach.
Taylor would stcik more in and closer to us – these two have no fear and are so alike.
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Or the hand of her MORMOR ( Swede for MOTHERS MOTHER) she is growing tall – and at 10 – is up to the chin of Sherry – who is tall in her own right.
She is the quiet one of the three – always does what you want and never gives you a rough time.
She is normal size for her age – Taylor has always been bigger – that is why they were early by doctor’s order.
Taylor was taking all the nutrition in the womb – so they had to come out!
They were so tiny – just over three pounds each – but Taylor has maintained that same difference.
Cassidy is a sweet little caring girl who acts like a little mother to Bode – her brother –
but acts more like a twin to Cassidy!
She is a spark plug – so full of energy – natural in sports – cart wheels – over back ward steps –
skate boards – and almost every day face times her MorMor.
But he is growing like Taylor! So sweet and caring – yet very determined – and a little fish in the water.
Cassidy is never far from him – they fight but she watches over him like a mother.
He is going to be a golfer – soccer player like his father,
he is into trucks – machines and bikes.
He almost never wears a jacket or socks and shoes – even in the cold.
He is a natural athelete and every time we visit – at 5:30 in the morning –
he knows I am up and blogging – will come to where I am and climb up in my lap!
“PAPA – can I watch you”? Yes little one you can.
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Sherry flew back to NVA to watch the twins in a play and because both parents work – instead of them paying
for a couple weeks at summer camp –
they bought plane tickets instead and she flew back with them for me to pick up!
The parents were coming down the following week anyways for a in law family vacation about a hour South of us.
We spent the day yesterday with them – in the sun and the warm water of the ocean.
But once we seperated the two –
Cassidy and Bode – it was fine.
Taylor – who is only ten years old – will be taller than her MorMor ( Sherry ) who is 5’9″.
I had purchased the tickets for he and I – and while standing in line he said to me –
“Papa – can we get a refund”?
“No” I said.
“PAPA – I am scared – will you hold onto me”?
OF COUSE and I did and he loved it – wanting to go again!
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BOARDWALK AT THE BEACH and ON THE BEACH – Ocean Isle Beach – N.C.
The bedroom outfit in each bedroom and all the chairs and couches and kitchen table – end tables – stand for TV and desks in office. Outdoor patio and front porch furniture.
We were worried about beds to sleep in – and we have enough plus our office ( blow up queen mattress to sleep both families) plus we needed storage for clothes and items – by planning with extra drawers and arranging coat closets and linen closets plus the overhead storage in the garage – we have come up with ample space along with oversized night tables and storage shelves under one bed.
And has hung on every wall of every house we have moved into.
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We wanted open living – being able to see all who are visiting!
And – we wanted LIGHT – FILLED rooms!
Here is the aforementioned rooms along with parts of the kitchen and breakfast nook!
Beyond the breakfast nook is the covered – screened in lanai.
I spend a lot of time out there with the ceiling fan going!
Seating for four at the island and seating for six at the table with out the extra leaf!
Vaulted ceilings give a feeling of being open and large.
We wanted family to be able to visit – so in the next picture is the Sunroom – with a queen sized pull out sofa!
And we wanted the light to come in from outside!
The patio is directly behind these windows and to the left is the lanai!
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This room is where we put pictures of Mount Nebo – the historic 1800’s eight sided Swedish church –
which was built by the Swedes who settled here. It also is the final resting place of her realatives.
There is a copy of a very old map of the town of Mount Jewett – which we just framed but have not hung yet.
And of course the historic Kinzua railraod bridge – constructed in the late 1800’s –
across a valley and over 300 feet high and a mile long – and part of it taken down by a tornado!
This same bridge is where they filmed a episode of the TV series “BIGFOOT”!
This was all territory that belonded to the Seneca Indian tribe before the white man.
The office is to the right and behind that wall in the center. To the right is the hall leading to the garage and laundry room. We choose this model for the open concept and the enclosed office space.
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Still thinking this one through – the rug we are trying out – she might just keep this one! LOL
This room also has the Swedish heritage items – as Sherry is Swede – her grandmother came ferom Sweden.
This to me is like a HALLMARK card – so simple yet so carefully drawn of a little girl by a little girl.
A picture of our front porch in Brambleton where I sat everyday until the sun got too hot!
She captured it perfectly right down to the flowers and Swedish horses!
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I traded for this picture with my brother – Roger – and I rather like it – but the girls always were afraid of it!
So – on this move – I put him up in the garage over my work area with my tools! LOL
And by his side – a painting a Union rep. friend of mine did while negoatiating a union contract in 1982!
Both – hold dear memories for me.
The three Swedish horses were made as presents for us by he oldest granddaughters!
They even cast the concrete!
The last year we have had to do all our office routines from a table or counter top after selling our home.
We had a home office there – Sherry has a home business – needing a desk top – telephone –
WIFI – INTERNET and storage for files.
Me – I used the downstairs breakfast table and later the kitchen table in the condo as did Sherry.
Actually – I am the middle of the road – independent!
But now – I have space – desk and filing system for my daily blog articles!
She in turn has files – printer – desk – computer – WIFY – internet – our phones – and ROOM!
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Our old house was almost 3100 sf. on two floors – we did not need all that room – but still enough for family.
And we wanted in our autumn years – one level – and easy access!
The office is big enough to put a blow up queen mattress on the floor –
The sunroom has a pull out queen sized couch – matress –
and the master bedroom has a twin sized pull out mattress!
The house is just over 1900 heated space with a enclosed – covered screened in lanai.
You actually could put a blow up single on the floor there.
at the time of the build – some we have carried forward – others not – evolving as we grow older.
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shelving – work area and some storage – also a pull down stairs to overhead storage where I have neatly
stacked the xmas crates – suitcases and some blow up mattress’s!
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To be continued!
They are young plants and hoping they will take hold – watering them everyday – but next year they should bloom
a bright RED againest the back drop of the protected tree line.
A quiet neighborhood – but already a man rang the doorbell trying to sell home securtiy!
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This day we would later meet up with friends – for we had tickets at the Albama Theater in Barefoot landing –
To see the MOTOWN review straight from Broadway.
But first – I sit on my front porch every early morning – waiting for the sun to peak over the tree line.
When I was growing up and my brother left for college – I moved into his bedroom at the front of the house –
which faced East – every morning I would be awake listening to the birds chirping and then the sun coming through the two front windows of that bedroom.
In all my years since then – I have never lost that feeling of the dawning of a new day!
Buck and Cindy – who now live about 40 minutes away in Magnolia Greens just outside of Leland.
We try to get together once a week to either golf or go to dinner or to a theater.
We plan major trips every couple years – the last one was North California and Reno –
which we took ten days and traveled some 1400 miles covering the entire portion of the state near Sacremento.
We have been to Oahu – Spain – Gilbraltor and Morroco –
We have covered Mass. and Maine –
We did the wine country in Canada and Niagra falls –
a golfing vacation back home in NWPA and WNY!
We are in discussions now of a trip next year but have to wait and see how the year proceeds with Covid.
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In part we choose this development because it has a place to walk! Quietly – and not much traffic!
This area was supposed to be developed much like Ocean Ridge across the street –
where the BIG CAT golf courses – four of them – are located.
When the downturn came – this section discontinued development –
somehow – Realstar became involved and is developing Cameron Woods in among all the lots that were previously
sold by the main developer.
For whatever reason – no one is building on them except maybe 8 to 10 houses.
This area is like entering a national forest!
Very interesting – and we have been told – they paid a lot for these properties.
By the end of the year – our section should be completed and all sold out!
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The tree is in line with the one in front which is a white Crepe Myrtle – we wanted color in the back.
The lanai – which is screened in – and we will be able to view the two trees from inside.
This tree line is protected and will stay there. Pine straw and flowers are what I plan for this area.
It is a work in progress – planting flowers – we love to plant flowers that return each season.
Much as I did at the old house in NVA!
In my mind I picture a bird bath here and a bird feeder. And on one of those big trees – one of those faces –
with eyes and nose and a smile!
Perhaps larger flowers that come back year to year.
We have this view from the lanai and the open patio and firepit.
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The beach draws her – to let off stress and a quiet place to walk – the sounds of the surf – the warm waters.
Buck and Cindy are our close friends – we moved into a house next to them 36 1/2 years ago –
and had known thenm before that. We get along and enjoy much of the same things.
Cindy is very active as is Sherry – always on the go. They walk together when we are around.
Now – our new home is about 40 minutes away from them.
We try to golf once aweek or go out to a show or dinner.
Here is Bode in front row with the five grandaughters behind him.
She reminds me so much of her father – tall – slim – smile – always on the go and a born entrepreneur
He always was looking for a way to make money and she has that also.
Not afraid to stand up in front of people and talk.
And they played golf just alike!
I became very good friends with him before he passed away – he told me many things promising I would not repeat them. All had to do with the War and I shall keep that promise I made to him.
I repsected him that much – it was a bonding moment for him and me.
She loves our new area – back in NVA she would take dozens of visitors on tour guides into DC.
She is a leader – a natural born one at that!
A place for FAMILY to visit and room to have them.
This is her happy place once again – walking – meeting new neighbors –
exploring and in a area that does not have the freezing ice and snow.
These are but a few of her happy places – places she feels most comfortable in.
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As you can also see – we are in the middle of construction of new houses – we are the second to close –
but we have been through this twice before – and the values have already gone up!
This is our third build – in the last 22 years!
Moving South – first to the NVA area – outside of Washington DC – and buying and selling three times –
With twice building from ground up –
has led us here – in Ocean Isle Beach – Cameron Woods – and sitting on our front porch.
We have done major landscaping since this picture was taken – removing the pine straw and replacing it with the black mulch – putting in white – gray stones around the trees in the front yard and large rocks around the lanai.
We have just a few more ideas to formulate – changing a few things and we will be settled!
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I am careful where I step – I constantly look ahead – ticks are also abundant here!
If you look real close – you can just see the eyes and nose of this little fellow!
He or she was about 2 1/2 feet long – just a baby – but WHERE WAS MOMMA?
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The beach is but 4.5 miles away – shorter if you are a crow!
We live in Cameron Woods – part of Ocean Ridge but across the main highway from it.
We are on the mainland – three miles to the causeway over the ICW!
We actually have a choice of two beaches – for Sunset beach is two miles futher in the opposite direction South!
And if we want to travel – we are 16 miles back to North Myrtle Neach where we have lived the past nine months!
The beach here is different – the sand a darker shade – not as flat and the waves seem to be rougher !
The beach also is not as wide as NMB or as many people!
The water is very warm just like NMB!
And we are finding our way around!
There are music concerts throughout the Summer and into October on Friday nights!
Getting there is a major problem as we tried to attend the free concert and got stuck in a three mile
traffic jam trying to get across the causeway!
So – we truned around and did not go!
We are learning – do not go at the last moment – go early – walk the beach – have dinner and then get the chairs out and pick a space to chill and wait for the music to start!
Both beaches have these concerts on different nights as does NMB!
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Try as hard as we can – we can stay even – first nine we lost by one – we pared and they birdied –
they never get into trouble – if one does – the other is in the middle – just consistent –
they are almost always putting for par and when they are on with the putts –
they will beat you!
There are four courses in here and this one – TIGERS EYE is the second one we have golfed on.
This is called the bIG CATS courses – all named after the big cats of the world.
LIONS PAW – PANTHERS RUN – LEOPARDS CHASE and this one TIGERS EYE!
We have fun first – laugh a lot and plan our shots – but – hey – they are tough to beat!
They play the ladies tees as does Buck – I play the senior tees.
You just are careful – looking always for them and watch for snakes in deep grass or wooded area.
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It was a very good day – from unpacking to putting the first of two desks together for our home office
and business – http://www.sf.juiceplus.com.
She selected where she wanted to go and being so close – 8 minute drive – and then after – a short walk on the sand of the beach at Ocean Isle Beach –
We are but 15 minutes to another beach SUNSET BEACH!
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This is the view looking North after you enter the beach by the community center where the showers and bathrooms are – a large volleyball net is here as well as a very long walkway and deck system.
This is more of a resident area beach!
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When we came down here in late September of 2020 – we had no thought of building a new home.
We simply wanted to check the area out and were interested in the Leland area.
Our friends lived in Magnolia Greens in a golf course community.
We had been visiting them for almost 25 years and loved it there.
But – at that time we had a number in mind and could not find anything to buy.
So – we moved on – to North Myrtle Beach to stay a few months – check out the area and fell in love with it!
The problem then became – while we could find homes in our price range – they all needed updated!
Just not our taste and way to much work to do just that!
We searched for condo’s – but the problem was space and storage and a garage to protect the car.
Then by chance just wandering into a new community and the model – Sherry whispered to me –
I love this concept and want this house!
So – we checked it out and with all the upgrades and getting exactly what we wanted
we were still in our price range!
We would move into N.C. six teen miles from North Myrtle Beach area which gave us a half hour drive back to.
We would be right in the middle of all the golf courses on our first tee card
and almost one half hour closer to our friends in Magnolia greens!
We signed the contract in mid November and completed the sale and closing on July 2nd. 2021.
We are in our happy place – when we go to the beach – it is a eight minute drive with no traffic
and a 15 minute drive to the other beach.
We are but 2 1/2 minutes to three places to buy food – and lots of bars and grills.
Our doctors are twenty minutes away as is the major hospital.
AND GOLF – four courses right across the street!
We made the right choice – we are where we want to be – Sherry – CERTIFIED HEALTH COACH –
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And I get to sit on the front porch( requirement I had) and also from the open patio and now the lanai!
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Three hours later desk number one was completed and we headed out to the ICW for her birthday dinner!
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He had red curly hair – a smile a mile wide and a laugh and giggle that you knew right away who it was.
He was my younger brother – we were like a second family for my parents –
Donna and Roger were 15 and 10 years older.
We had a sister who died at birth in between the two sets of kids.
We fought like cats and dogs do – but we also were close.
He instigated a lot of it and would scream bloody murder as loud as he could when I had enough.
I was the one who into trouble but mom always knew as she later told me.
He was just o darn likable with that hair and giggle.
We played all the time together – cowboys and Indian’s – running the neighborhood –
He was always hurting himself – one time he climbed up on top of a attached shed at a neighbors house.
He was going to ambush me but I saw him and pretended to shoot him.
I saw what he was going to do and I yelled STOP – but he did it anyway –
always acting real life he sort of collapsed and rolled off the shed to the ground as if dead.
But there was a stone bird bath under the shed roof and when he came down he hit his elbow on it!
Off to the doctors office we went and then in the ambulance to the hospital to have surgery on the elbow!
He had to have a pin put in and that elbow was off to the side -making his arm seem crooked.
A few years later – we were on the front porch – and he had climbed up onto the porch railing – I told him he had better get down before he fell.
Well – as always – he gave me that silly laugh and giggle – and I could not help but smile until he did fall.
At the end of the porch beneath that railing – a 2 x 10 stuck out – he came down and hit that board with his other elbow and we repeated the same thing all over again with another surgery – now he had two elbows exactly the same!
But -it seemed like it was a perfect solution for him as it perfected his golf swing and he had a lot of power and strength in those arms – one time I was with him – and this was way before anyone was hitting the ball 300 yards.
We were playing the old number one hole at Smethport – he was a Freshman – me just beginning my senior year –
He hit that ball and because of how his elbows were now shaped – he hit it straight with power. That hole was a gradual uphill some 305 yards!
His ball ended up past the hole and into the yard behind it! Some 50 or 60 yards past! Uphill!
If I had not been there to see it – I would not believe it!
Gene Fazio – who was a card member of the PGA and a premier golfer in the Pa. and NYS area –
told me – “IF I HAD MY SHORT GAME AND MIKE’S DRIVING – I WOULD GO ON THE PGA TOUR”!
Mike was a scratch golfer even with those elbows.
Mike ended up bigger than me – he was as tall as my father who was a little over six foot tall.
The brother’s – Roger – Mike and I got our curly hair from my dad – my grandfather was bald.
Mike ended up around 215 pounds and played football – but he could kick that ball just like he hit golf balls.
Far and straight – he became a field goal kicker way before that was common in H.S.
His kick offs were always through the end zone and he went on to college at Mansfield University of Pa.
Where he became the kicker for the college football team.
He graduated in Criminal Justice.
As I said before he was always doing something and getting hurt!
He was riding my bike one day and I told him to get off as he was not big enough to ride it!
His legs could barley touch the pedals – sure enough his foot slipped and he came down on the cross bar –
off to the hospital we went again – operation for a rupture!
My brother in law Bill nick named him JUICE!
I really do not know why other than he was like electric – energy running through him – always a live wire!
Then one day Bill and I were sitting on the front porch –
and he said “HERE COMES JUICE”!
And then Bill said “JESUS CHRIST”!
And Bill hollered at him – “JUICE- PUT THE ROPE DOWN”!
But too late!
Mike was walking up the street twirling a dog rope with a clasp on the end of it over his head like a cowboy!
He got it too low just after Bill yelled to put it down and it started to wind around his head lower and lower.
It came around and smacked him right on the mouth –
“KNOCKING OUT HIS FRONT TOOTH”!
Off to the dentist office we went – oral surgery to extract what remained in his mouth of that tooth.
THAT IN A NUTSHELL WAS MY BROTHER MIKE!
Red hair – bearded – always smiling and that silly laugh – giggle.
I MISS HIM as he passed away when I was 35.
My brother MIKE – loved – close as brothers are – gone way too young – but never forgotten.
R.I.P. “JUICE”
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John was a decorated WWII hero – with the purple heart and numerous other medals.
He captured a castle and a Nazi officer out of uniform – there is a story in a military journal
that is in the WWII museum in Eldred Pa.that chronicles that event.
He took from that officer a automatic machine gun pistol – vintage WWI – that also resides in the museum
and is worth upwards in the thousands of dollars. They keep it locked away as it is so valuable.
He was wounded several times and went back into action.
Bill was a vet of the forgotten war – Korea – he seldom talked about it but while I was growing up –
he gave to me his sleeping bag that he used in the cold winters there.
I admire his stamina as all it was is a wool blanket inside a canvas liner!
I would get very cold while sleeping outside on the ground in it!
He was more to me than a brother in law – he was my friend and like a brother to me.
One time I was out with him on patrol in the cop car – he was the town cop –
We drove down across the tracks and out past the old pipe building –
he saw a woodchuck and said to me –
“Do I get him”?
“Sure I said”!
He pulled out his gun and from the front seat shot that old woodchuck –
I almost went deaf from that gun going off!
I said ” JESUS CHRIST BILL” and then we both just burst out laughing!
Lesson – never fire a gun from inside a car – you can barely hear for like 10 minutes!
Mom was known all over the town and county and into NYS for her baking.
She would bake rolls – bread – pies and cakes. Sweet rolls and sticky buns.
There was not anything she could not knead and bake and all from memory!
She did not need a receipt – she just did it after almost 85 years of her life baking!
She baked as a child learning from her mother who passed at 85 years old.
Mom was next to the youngest of 11 kids and was almost 98 years old when she passed.
She supplied pies and cakes and rolls for a diner in town.
Or she would say ” You are as useless as teats on a boar hog”! She had me in stitches –
she also played the accordion my father the spoons and sang and my uncle jack the wash board.
They would do this at family picnics and if the beer was free – at social events.
When she was young – she traveled with my grandma in the logging camps of Pa.
Making breakfast – lunch and dinner as a way to make money in the depression.
They were together until he passed away at age 81.
She called him “JOHNNY BOY” and he was so good to her – just what she needed after ten years losing my dad.
He could fix anything and construction was his forte.
His cars and trucks immaculate even though they were ten years old – showroom condition.
He fixed up and remodled the house which she had kept going all those years .
That same house today is still in the family after almost 78 years –
my great niece lives there today.
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on Magnolia Greens golf course just outside Leland, N.C.
Buck and Cindy are our friends – before we all moved – we were neighbors back in WNY.
We moved into a house next to them some 36 1/2 years ago and we knew them before that.
I have always known him as BUCK – never called him Bill.
About 15 years ago – he developed non essential tremors – and had a brain operation – where electric probes were implanted – with out them and the control under his skin on his chest – he would not have any control on his right side – arm and leg. The downside to having this implanted – is with it turned on – he loses his clarity on speech –
and has problems with balance. But – he still can golf and handle himself well – I drive – watch his ball –
and we get a handicap flag that allows us to get near his ball so he does not get so tired out.
He is one of my two best friends – the other Jimmy who I played softball with back in the mid ’70’s.
We all are close friends and Dottie – Jim’s wife – I have known as long as Jim.
The three of us grew up in the same small town of Eldred Pa.
Cindy and Buck grew up in Portville N.Y. just across the border and Sherry grew up in Mount Jewett Pa. aboput 35 miles away.
They are right down the middle and anywhere from 130 to 175 yards!
It makes them tough to beat – I golf from the senior tees – and when I get a good drive – it still is about even with them
as they have a advantage from the ladies tees.
Buck – because of his condition – golfs from the same tees as the ladies –
so a lot of the time we use his ball on the scramble –
He can still hit it almost as far as they can.
We play even up – no strokes – and this time out – after 18 holes – Buck and I lost by one stroke!
Their second shots are like the drives – and close to the green – a chip and one putt for par or worse two putt.
Sherry and I just love to play – get out – fresh air – and a lot of laughs.
Cindy has a traveling shot bar!
If we make a birdie – it is shot time – since we make few of them – she switched it to pars! LOL
They pared – we boggied – missed putt – and that was the difference in the 18 hole match!
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Everymorning – when we wake up – me really early – Sherry – laying in bed to open her eyes and see this.
We – for nine months – have been blessed – staying – walking – listening to the surf – all from this condo.
people sitting in them -a look at the North Myrtle Beach proper – widest beach on the strand – walking –
comfort – the people -we will be back for it is but thirty minute drive for us.
When we return – I sit on the rocking chair on the lanai – or at the table – watching the water fowl –
seeing the huge fish from above and the endless turtles.
The otter that comes to swim and even a snake or two swimming –
No gators have I seen and was told there is none.
Swans come and go and at the far end – three white ducks I have named Huey – Dewey and Lewie.
It has been a memorable nine months – meeting people -having numerous family and friends visit us here.
Walking to the main street and all the live music both outside and inside.
The golf carts – the tourists and the six swimming pool here.
The pickle ball courts – the tennis courts – the work out room and the community center –
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The party was held at the family house in Lake Holiday – Cross Junction Va.
Their father – through the years – developed a phys ed. course for the girls – balance line – zip line –
trampoline – climbing wall – tree house – soccer nets – and in winter a snow board run.
Living out in the country – they were raised to hike – kayak – conoeing – swimming – walking and running.
Over the years he taught them the soccer skills they have – now both older girls play soccer in college.
The younger sister – prefers dance – acting and writing – directing and producing videos.
Her dream is to one day go to NYC!
The three sisters – Ella – 17 years old Maddy – 20 years old Sarah – 14 years old – growing up in nature – camping.
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The graduation party was a success and continued on into the wee morning hours!
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We have gone to Fat Harolds numerous times – we like the beach music – not knowing it was called this!
Back home in the early years of my life – this was just music played on the radio
and on TV when you watched those dance shows!
Had no idea about the SHAG or the way Southern Rock was danced down here.
Funny how you grow up listening to Alabama – Eagles and all the other music of our youth –
and since the ’40’s this was happening right here!
The history of the surf music for almost 80 years
pictures on the wall – the music groups that came through here – famous – only we did not know the why!
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