Waiting for varnish.  An endless job.

This is typical of a Grand Banks boat.  If you wonder if the boat you are looking at is a GB then look for this woodwork near the bow.

We continue to have beautiful warm days and cool nights.  Our days are full with getting together with looper friends and cleaning the boat and walking the dog and making new friends.  It really is a lifestyle.  I am getting ready to change jobs...a little less than thrilled with working in the nursing home.  New job is home care working with Hospice.
We are looking forward to Thanksgiving.  We will be driving up to Raleigh and spending 4 days with Dick's brother and family.  They are planning a 4 day celebration complete with skeet shooting, bonfire and barbque.  Can't wait.  They are expecting 40 people.
We keep thinking about taking the boat up to the Outer banks and Kitty Hawk.  But it is getting so late in the year and it is still hurricane season for a few more days.  May have to wait for spring.  We will see all the keys people going north then.  We are a little sad to be sitting still this year.  Saying good bye to friends who are going south for the winter.  But keep reminding ourselves that we will be heading south at this time next year and it will be worth it.
And so it goes.

Our sweet little Abby.

Tree in the water.  What's wrong with this picture?

Flooded street in the park.

Sidewalk to no where.

Missing dock.

Although they are talking about flooding all over North Carolina and we are surrounded by water, we are not being much affected.  We have been having beautiful sunny days and cool nights.  My favorite.  I heard that the park next to us on the other side of the bridge is still flooded, and we still have almost 4 feet of water under the keel that we don't normally have, we are doing ok.

8 am this morning.

11 am this morning.

It has turned into a beautiful day. Cool and windy.  No electric out here but they have a good generator so we are not suffering at all.  Life is very good.  There is suppose to be flooding everywhere but New Bern.  We are doing fine.

The view Saturday night before the sun went down.

The view Sunday morning at 8 am.

Things have died down but there is still wind.  The water has moved around.  The wind is now blowing the water out of the harbor.  The rain has stopped.  Let the flooding continue.  We keep getting flood warnings but I don't see it here.  Dick says the boat is fine but had no electricity until a few minutes ago.  It really blew last night but no damage to speak of here at Ralph and Linda's house.  It has gotten considerably colder out.  Must be down in the 50's.  Feels so good to me.  Dick is not happy and thinks we may have made a mistake not going back to the keys this winter.  I am welcoming the cooler weather and miss snow.

Ralph's boat earlier at the dock.

Ralph's boat later at the dock underwater.

Looking down the channel at the water coming over the sea wall.

Looking in the distance at a dock under water and the rain and wind at 5pm.