The next week we worked in Carolina Beach. I was all excited: there's a history site and an aquarium and of course the beach itself, and a state park. I drove down Lake Park Blvd. until I found out how it got it's name.

I parked the motorhome and walked around the park, enjoying the sun, the spring-like day, and the freedom from pain my recent visit to the podiatrist had brought. I stopped to watch the diving ducks - now here's a challenge. Watch the video and count the ducks.

(No I haven't done it, so I won't know if you got it right.)

I drank from an endangered species: a working public water fountain.



So many places no longer have them at all, or they are there but in disrepair. I detoured across the road to visit the beach.



I ate lunch at lakeside.


Then I returned to the store to nap before work. And got the flu. So much for visiting the aquarium and all that - it will be there when I get back in a week or two.

I've been working, working, sneaking visits to the new kid, working... Then work got to far away to visit the baby so I spent the weekend with my friend Barbara in Whiteville. THIS time, when we went to Mama Rita's, it was open. At last I get to eat at the restaurant in the parking lot I told you about in a post last year.


We took her granddaughter and went to Chadbourn's park - now this just makes me want to shrink to kid-size and play. Actually, the swings there are so high off the ground that I had trouble getting in them and I had to get Barbara to push me to get started. I don't know how little kids use them.

THIS HAS BEEN A TRULY MEMORABLE HOLIDAY SEASON.

The main event was the birth of my new grandson Alex on 1/4/08. As you can see, he is totally adorable.


I'm thrilled to be working all month fairly near where he and his parents live, so I get to visit on weekends.

I'm Christmas Shopping. And surfing the net looking for a pot rack for my daughter's new kitchen. I ran across this product and ,while I have no idea why Amazon listed it among pot racks, I thought I'd pass the info on to anyone who likes to save space. (For some reason I suspect there are other RV'ers out there reading this blog.)
Functional Fabrics Check out the Cook 'n Go link.
OK, back to shopping.

Kate has tagged me to play SEVEN THINGS
and I'm not sure what the rules if any are - i am guessing you just make a list of 7 things about you, or maybe just 7 things....

OK, what the heck...

This weekend was so very short, flew by so very fast, that I will list Seven Things I'd Do With The Time If I Didn't Have To Work:

• Visit my kids, grandkids, aunt, friends I haven't seen in ages...
• Write, play, listen to and record music - publish some more CDs...
• Get in really good shape and do some serious hiking, boating, archery, shooting...
• Go to Rendezvous - in places I haven't been...
• Develop web sites for people who need them...
• Winter in the sunny south... (I'm writing from Georgia now, but I have to head back north Thursday :(
• Read - the backlog could take lifetimes.

And I could go on and on but the game IS "Seven Things".

Happy Halloween!

Even if I didn't post it until November 3 ;)

Like my Christmas decorations, Halloween decoration must be scaled for the motorhome.



I got this tiny pumpkin and carved it with a paring knife - easiest pumpkin carving I ever did. I cut out for the tea light in the bottom so he wouldn't look like he was wearing braces on his teeth.