Pre-Christmas Building

This week we saw some framing, and the disappearance of the barn roof. That was put in place to divert water from the house during the predicted rain of last weekend. It was taken down early in the week and framing began.

Then today (Friday 12/21), the barn roof reappeared! Had some more rain come in, so here come the framers in the morning, and up goes half the roof. Really looks funny now, but it will keep the water out of the house (I hope!). The framers use nailguns which use braided nails made by a company called (and I'm not making this up) Amigo fasteners.
Kevin is home! Merry Christmas!

Last fishing trip, some house pics

I was able to go out Sunday afternoon which will probably be my last fishing trip for quite a while. The water was slick and gin-clear, only caught three little specs for supper
Nice ride in and out

This week the builder poured more concrete, added masonry, and this barn roof from which he will build our roof. Progress almost daily!

Early December

Hard to believe we're on top of Christmas. We are just starting to get ready for the holidays. Bill W and I did go fishing one more time last Sunday with very limited success. Still thinking about going this Sunday afternoon, again, just one more time.

Big news this week was groundbreaking on the addition to the house. As I was in the office this week I was able to see the destruction of the existing deck, digging for the foundation, pouring concrete, and some masonry.

Our gas was cut off which means no gas logs and grill. Got the grill hooked back up in the backyard so we're able to keep BBQ-ing.

We're very excited to see the progress.

Fun and Fishing

Lots of messages recently about fishing; but as you probably know the eastern NC fishing during the fall is usually excellent. Had another good couple of days this week, more trout on the dinner plates all week and weekend. It was mighty cold (37 degrees) Saturday morning:

Had one warship in port and another one coming in

Finished up in time for Jackson's second game in two days (he scored 12 Friday night against a varsity squad from Wilmington)

Dinner was a combo of grilled and fried, here's the grill work The appetizers were fried (yes, once again, we're not sophisticated people you know). Turn up the volume and enjoy........

Don't know when I'll have the time to go again this year; might be it for the season. Let me know if you want to go, maybe that will motivate me to get out there again.

11/21/07 fishing

Went out early and could not find the speckled trout I'd heard about, couldn't find the grey trout I'd found earlier, had to hunt and finally caught a nice mess of greys for us, Pop and Dink for tonight. Included in the menu were a few really nice hogfish

Afterwards I went outside and found same Fat Alberts all around the inlet; unfortunately they were very picky and I caught the same amount of FA's as I did gulls; 1.

There is a lot of small bait (<1")>

I know this is a trite thing to watch, but I hope it will never get so hackneyed that I don't enjoy watching the dolphins splash around; it's still a thrill to me at 52

There was also a whale in the area but I didn't get any video, as there was a plane overhead and you're not supposed to get very close to them!

Florida

This week Terri and I went to the ARI meeting at the Ocean Reef Club outside Key Largo, and then down to Key West for a day of fun. Pretty, warm weather wherever we went; and of course we had to go to Mallory Square to watch the sun settle into the ocean in the west.

As toursity as it seems, it was a lot of fun watching the street performers and then hearing the sun sizzle as it dipped into the west. Key West is much more hygenic than I remembered it; still a lot of bums at the ends of their collective roads, and a Jimmy Buffett wannabe in every bar and/or restaurant.

Good meeting, nice to relax for an extra day, and believe it or not, I played tennis twice. More on that later

Cooper !!!



Had the opportunity to go to Sanford on business Wednesday, and late that afternoon got to see our grandson Cooper.

He's learning to wave bye-bye to himself

and playing with his grandfather's camera bag