• Life In General,  road trip

    The Turning Tide

    The weekend before last, I was invited to stay a few days at the beach with my brother and his family.  The house was huge….and gorgeous!  Located at mile post 15.5 on Beach Road, The Turning Tide was a perfect place for a getaway.  The house featured a rec room with a pool table, private pool and hot tub, six bedrooms and full baths.   Here is a little tour….. As you enter on the ground floor…. ….you first see the  Rec Room.  There is a bedroom and bath as well. Turn left, the downstairs foyer and up the stairs to the second level… ….which features a sitting area.   There is a door…

  • Life In General

    Sneak Peek

    I really liked this little house…..sitting there all by itself for the most part.  Bigger, better, shinier, newer homes surrounded this place.  The yard was overgrown a bit….the house an obvious older design.  My sister in law said it reminded her of the Monster House.  We both kept expecting it to talk to us at any moment.  Composition my not be correct ~ but I liked the big blue sky and the big lawn.  Look closer and you might see these orange and rust colored flowers growing through out the grass and stickers.  They were all over……pretty weeds.  And stickers ~ not the things kids like to collect and put into books.  These are…

  • Outside My Window

    Outside My Window ~ 6.27.10

    Outside My Window…is far more heat than I want to deal with.  At 4:00 p.m. it is 97ºF but it feels like 102ºF when you factor in the dew point.  I arrived home from the Outer Banks a short time ago and had to unload my car in this heat.  Absolutely miserable outside…..with no relief in site.  Tomorrow is suppose to be 99ºF.  To make matters worse, there has been no measurable rain in over a week.  We are literally baking.  I know some may be thinking ‘well it is summer’ but considering our average for this time of year is the mid 80’s….it is horrible.  I will water my poor baked…