summertime

Papa’s World – Looking out for summer!

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Sipping coffee on the front porch glider –

Summer is here!

My favorite spot is to sit here –

Watch the neighbors ride by –

Wave or say hello –

All the while under cover from the sun and rain.

Summer is when family comes to visit.

Here – Debby and Mike –

Along with Maddy, Ella, and Sarah –

The three oldest grandchildren!

We take them to Barefoot Landing, the ICW, and the marina.

Watching the boats to come and go.

Summer is vacation time!

Summer concerts in the OIB Park.

Free from mid-May to early October.

Depending on weather-related cancellations.

The concerts draw hundreds of tourists and locals.

Every Friday night, the other towns have free concerts on different weekdays.

Summer time entertainment.

Bode – Sherry, Cassidy, and Taylor.

The youngest grandchildren.

One time, Sherry flew up to NVA and then brought all three back on their first plane ride.

A week later, their parents drove down for a week and took them back home.

Here we are on the ferry to see the Coastal Carolina Museum and Aquarium.

Summer time fun!

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Kayaking with friends –

Pam and Bob are on the marsh of the ICW!

A few shots of Fireball!

Summertime fun!

The family all together –

Gathered on OIB for our 75th birthdays in 2024!

A time to remember.

Summertime fun!

A PAST MEMORY of all six grandchildren.

On the beach in summertime.

Bode is looking at his sisters and cousins.

A PRICELESS MEMORY OF SUMMERTIME!

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Papa’s World – Summertime fun!

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We had a great summer –

family visited –

vacation – trip back to NVA –

Concerts in Sunset Beach-

and Ocean Isle Beach –

Endured a Tropical Storm.

Friends – golf – beaching –

I look around –

and I am amazed that we are here!

I always dreamed it-

but I thought it was out of reach.

We have made new friends –

Old friends have moved close by.

Other old friends come to visit.

We have watched the seasons come and go –

and we know this was the right choice for us.

The health care system for us is excellent.

Shopping – gas and food-

is only a couple miles away –

Yet when you enter our neighborhood –

Tall pines – lush undergrowth –

and yes wildlife exists here also.

We have a beautiful pool and community center –

we volunteer at several venues.

Ocean Isle Beach as seen from the Causeway Bridge spanning the ICW!

We are about four miles from this bridge –

We can come here whenever we want

We walk this beach for shells-

and Sunset Beach as it is more level.

We have open-air concerts at both beaches –

We have made friends here on the island.

We stay in contact each year with my grade school friend Bobby and his wife Pam.

We have visits with them for about a week every year.

LIFELONG BUDDIES!

Our old neighbors back in WNY-

and we now live some 38 miles from them.

We get together often for golf-

or just talking and dinners.

They were all friends back in NVA –

And now all are in either S.C. or N.C.

And close enough to come together –

for lunches and dinners-

or just visit each other!

We have made new friends with Diane and Steve-

who we found out

also, we are from WNY!

They have a cottage on Rushford Lake –

and knew the area we were from!

SMALL WORLD –

and now they are our neighbors here in OIB!

All these years –

and still to this day friends.

We are now all retired –

and still get together every four to six months!

We all now are transplanted from WNY & Pa. to N.C.

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Papa’s World – Fall in N.C. – S.C. seems like Summer!

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For the first fifty years of our lives – we lived in NWPA and WNY – in the snow belts!

The summers were great growing up – and you truly had four seasons!

But – neither one of us liked the cold – snow and ice!

We would always head to the sun and sand for vacations – mostly in the South.

Our honeymoon was in the Dominican Republic –

Island breezes – sun – surf and warm water.

So it is now living in the N.C. – S.C. border area – what is Fall back in WNY – seems like what Summers were back there to us!

Seventy-five to eighty in the daytime – sixty to sixty-five at night –

Sunshine – white clouds in blue sky and walking the beach.

A reminder of the summer weather back North!

Nights you can still walk in shorts and shirtsleeves! Star-filled skies – birds and butterflies.

Living here – we love – no snow – ice (rarely) some cold but when the Sun comes out –

a jacket soon unzips and you walk in comfort.

We chose this area because we are comfortable living here – it does get hot – but we are a couple who likes that type of weather.

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Papa’s World – MEMORIES OF SUMMER!

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Graduation of our oldest grandchild – Maddy – from the University of Lynchburg. The beginning of summer!

Bode – in black – next in line of family soccer players – the tradition continues – as summer nears!

Summer rain clouds on the beach – take cover – get off the coast – SUMMERTIME!

When family visits – summer concert fun at OIB – excellent music – family summertime!

Summer trip home to watch the grands in plays – summertime with family!

Volunteering for the protection of Sea Turtles – summertime commitment – walking the beach and nest sitting!

Having the grands spend vacation time with us – busy – but loving every moment – summertime!

Summertime get-together with neighbors at OIB fish company – good company – Summertime!

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