WE ATE CRABS

on Day Five of our Kitty Hawk Vacation!

 

The Yard Man went to the store called 

We Got Your Crabs

and he got our crabs (the very ones that were swimming in the ocean this morning!)

We've been eating piles of sugar, too!

 



 (I'm the only one, Reader Dear, who is turning into a crab about this sugar habit.  "No, no, no!" I object, when The Yard Man shows up with yet another sweet, "We had doughnuts for breakfast, and chocolate candy and ice cream after lunch, and...!" [He laughs])

 

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All my short actors are keeping me busy directing.

 

 







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 We've been doing a lot of the following:

 

 Sitting in the hot tub.

 Sitting in the hammock.

 Hanging out in the pool.

 Hanging out in the used-book store.

 Playing  at the ocean.*

Playing Bezzerwizzer.

 

Just playing.



  



And I spent some time gathering...well...

I believe you know,
 

 

*for limited periods of time because of...

well, I believe you know, Reader Dear!

 

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I WENT TO THE PIER

yesterday morning.  But, due to my chat with the baby-faced cop, no one whom I knew was still there at the pier by the time I got there.  Not to worry, I had a very nice stroll alone.   And look out, Viewer Dear, I did a lot of filming!

I have lots of photos of waves on the verge of breaking.

And birds on the verge of flying. 
I've got lots more footage--uh, six more movie clips--of this bird couple. I was so determined to film them as they took to the air.  Alas, they were enjoying their acting roles, but stubbornly refused to acknowledge me as director when I instructed them repeatedly, "Okay, now, fly!"
Viewer Dear, you'll just have to imagine them taking flight.

 

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In the afternoon, I trekked to the beach.

 (Aargh. Do I have to say it?  Conditions were

    windy!)

 

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The evening trip, en masse, was to Jockey's Ridge.

This spot, Reader Dear, is known for its massive mountains of sand.  It's the place where Orville and his brother first hoisted their plane into the air. The very FIRST to become an airplane!  The very FIRST time aloft!  Needless to say, that flight can only be seen in your mind's eye, as well.

All I've got to show is our lengthy journey across the sand (not so renowned).

 

 And the sun going down on our Kitty Hawk Vacation-Day Three.

 

 

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SO WHAT DID I GET

 

 for all my grumbling about the wind  here in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina?!

 

 

I woke to find the house almost empty, most of the kith and kin en route to the fishing pier.  But it was okay.   I threw on my clothes, and rushed to join them.  Rushed, Reader Dear, being the operative word here!

 

Then, too, one of my diminutive actors threw up last night and cried with a fever and bellyache all morning long! 

 

Add to this, the pool heater quit working, and (as one might naturally expect, although it was so unexpected) the water in the swimming pool's turned much too chilly to enjoy!

 

Alas...and that wretched wind is still on the rampage!

Um, er, I meant to say that lovely, lovely wind!

 

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WE GOT A LITTLE BONUS

thrown in with the blue sky and clouds here at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.  It's sort of like we got a sauce, of which we're not so fond, poured over everything. 
WIND!
It's  breezy in the morning, blustery in the afternoon, brisk in the evening.
We're not loving the saucy wind.

 

But I'm not complaining, Reader Dear (er, well, not much).

It doesn't keep us out of the hot tub, out of the pool,

away from the baggo game and the sea-saw!

 

 

 The wind doesn't keep us away from oceanside, either. 



  

 

It can't keep me from searching the shoreline for words.



 

 And besides, good things are going on inside our rented house, too, when we tire of the stiff-blowing breezes.*

 





 

 

*More about this**

 

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**Later 



 

THE KITTY HAWK VACATION

 is going quite swimmingly!

 

I was happy to discover that the beach still has that same Atlantic Ocean lapping at its edge as it did the last time I was down this way!

 

 

 

Birds and other creatures

are still running along the sandy expanse with pleasure and excitement! 

 

 

 

And when that large and animated body of water gets a bit overwhelming,
there is a smaller one that just happens to be right outside our door!
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