Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Sea Captain's house with the Greenes

After telling the Greene's about the Sea Captain's House and the beautiful view from our table, they wanted to go gor a meal. We so enjoyed their company.


A great view of the ocean and great food
the view from where we parked
beautiful entrance to the restaurant
entrance to the beach behind the restaurant
the Greenes and Bruce













a group of gulls
beautiful ocean













walk on the beach
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great friends

feast of the gulls















feasting

gulls in flight













Oh yes!! in flight
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Friday, November 30, 2012

A walk on Crescent Beach/Atlantic Ocean

A walk on Crescent Beach
All alone
11-29-2012 Bruce and I drove over to the ocean at Crescent Beach. This was north of where we are camped. The day was spectacular / sun on the ocean, the clear blue color of the ocean, a lone gull and a fishing boat!! The pictures turned out well considering they were the first ones taken with the new Nikkon!!!

Atlantic Ocean
Crescent Beach

A lonely gull


the zoom works well
beautiful waves
a beautiful day
too much sun in lens for clear picture
Bruce and I talked about how blue the ocean was
BEAUTIFUL!!
the love of my life
I love the ocean




 
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Friday, November 23, 2012

Black Friday/ Walk on the beach

11-23-2012 Some people spend their immediate time after the Thanksgiving meal in the frenzy of shopping for Christmas gifts to get the best deals.

captured from a facebook post of a friend!!

I shopped online for a gift. I was in my gown and robe!!! Then we and the Greenes mailed our Christmas cards and then spent time on the beach. A VERY relaxed Black Friday.

Helen, Richard and Bruce
We talked about how blue the AtlanticOcean looked today




















Another look at the blue Atlantic Ocean!

Always something to make me think of Riley!!!



















the pompus grass was pretty


Then we went to Goodfellas Seafood Hut for our MOD. they had a facebook Black Friday offer for the second entree 1/2 off. Great food again with the great company of the Greenes.

Michelle (one of the owners) and Bruce earlier this past summer


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Thanksgiving

11-22-2012 We had a thanksgiving meal at Magnolia on 26th in Myrtle Beach SC. We and the Greenes enjoyed a meal buffet style!! Included was a full salad bar, turkey, roast beef, ham, fried chicken, barbecue, dressing, giblet gravy, mashed potatoes, sweet potato casserole, squash casserole, stewed tomatoes and okra, fried okra, rice, clam chowder, green beans, fried fat back (or,as Helen calls it, streak of lean), corn on the cob, bread, black eyed peas and cranberry sauce. Desserts included chocolate eclair cake, coconut cake, pumpkin pie, pecan pie, banana pudding, peach cobbler, ice cream,  Is this enough????????
This was a great meal with great friends.

these pictures were taken by Jean crean earlier this year!!


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Wednesday, November 21, 2012

meal on the ocean/the Sea Captain's House

A great view of the ocean from our table!!

11-20-2012 Bruce and I did some Christmas shopping this AM and then decided on this restaurant for our MOD. It was established in 1930. it has a varied menu and is a bit more expensive than other lunch menus, but the food is GREAT! Bruce had a fried flounder sandwich and I had their quiche and fruit!


the Sea Captain's House
Myrtle Beach SC

Sunday, November 18, 2012

Thanksgiving/An Attitude of Gratitude

It is not time for Christmas, yet. There is a time of the year that we are to pause and count our many blessings. In the beginning, Thanksgiving was when all the crops were harvested and put away for use during the winter storms. A celebration for all of the hard work that was done to plant, cultivate and harvest these crops.

Count your blessings, name them one by one
Count your blessings, see what God hath done!
Count your blessings, name them one by one
And it will surprise you what God has done.

When you look at others with their lands and gold
Think that Christ has promised you His wealth untold;
Count your many blessings, wealth can never buy
Your reward in Heaven, nor your home on high.

Psalm 50: 13-14  God has no need of animal sacrifices as in the OT. Instead, He wants us to offer Him sacrifices of thanksgiving and praise.

1 Thessalonians 5: 16-18  Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. We should take time to be thankful because this is what God wants.

Exodus 19:5 "God owns everything"
James 1:17 'God does not change". He is the same yesterday, today, tomorrow and forever.
We should be thankful to God because after all we are allowed to enjoy His earth.

Galatians 3:6-9 We need to realize that material blessings were not given to us because of anything we have done. we do not deserve them. God  has bestowed them on us...simply becuase of His mercy and His promise to Abraham, the father of the faithful.

Most important to Christian people is the harvest of souls. We are to pause and celebrate what fruits that have been added to God's kingdom! At church this AM, I was privileged to see this harvest unfold through another Thanksgiving hymn that I have sung many times but had NEVER got it's wonderful message of the harvest of souls. I want to be fruitful for my Lord and not be thrown into the fire as a tare. Read these words carefully and if you do not know the Lord as your Saviour, aske Him into your heart today. Tomorrow may be too late.

Come Ye Thankful People Come

All the world is God's own field
For the Lord our God shall come.
Raise the song of Harvest Home;
Fruit on to His praise to yield
And shall take His harvest home;
To Thy final Harvest-Home
All is safely gathered in,
wheat and tares together sown,
From His field shall in that day
gather Thou thy people in,
Ere the winter storms begin
Unto joy or sorrow grown
All offences purge away
Free from sorrow, free from sin;
God our Maker, doth provide
First the blade, and then the ear,
Give His angels charge at last
There forever purified,
For our wants to be supplied;
Then the full corn shall appear;
In the fire the tares are cast,
In Thy Presence to abide:
Come to god's own temple , come,
Lord of harvest, grant we
but the fruitful ears to store
Come with all thine angels , come,
Raise the song of Harvest -Home.
Wholesome grain and pure may be
In His garner evermore
Raise the glorious Harvest-Home.


Being thankful is knowing that we are in the presence of a Holy God who is in control and still on His throne. No matter where you are in your life, God is approachable and He is there. God's Holy reign gives us confidence. He insures/guarantees His church will prevail. For that, I am thankful.                 Are You?

Happy Thanksgiving       

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Friends while RVing is the best!!

11-3-2012 During this past week, we have frequented many favorite restaurants in the Maggie /Waynesville NC area. We had pizza at Angelo's Pizza, the City Bakery, Ammons Drive In and Captain's Bay. We enjoyed the CMA Awards. Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert took it ALL!

Today, Sput and Barbara Powell met us at WCU & we enjoyed being together for the pregame meal and the football game 9WCU vs UT Chattanooga. We lost again, but that did NOT dampen our fun with the Powells. Barbara took more great pictures.

Oh Yeah!













Catamounts!!
Paws and the fans!













After some of the referee calls, Paws decided that he could do a better job
The flag girls













The Pride of the Mountain marching band from WCU
Teddy Rhoney from Freedom High School
Senior Day with his parents
 















11-4-2012 We traveled home for more MD appointments. and RV service. I got good reports on my blood sugar and my thyroid blood work!! We continued to pack up for our time at Cross Country and Myrtle Beach.

11-8-2012 We traveled about 52 miles to Denver, NC to camp at Cross Country Campground with the '5th Wheelers'. We love to eat, so we all went to Untouchables Pizza restaurant for our MOD.
Our rig was not wanting to run as we arrived, so Bruce consulted Dave his mechanic and they together thought that it may have been bad fuel. Bruce will get the filters changed tomorrow AM.

11-9-2012 Bruce was able to get his road service to come out and change the filters for him. We met Jeff and Kay at Big Daddy's restaurant for dinner and had a great visit and meal!

11-10-2012 We had a huge covered dish meal for dinner. i had baked brownies and a loaf of banana bread. I also cooked broccoli casserole and potato salad. We had a huge meal and everything was great.
off of Hwy 150
Denver, NC















Checking in
RT and Jones















Site C 13
The Greenes and the Stroupes
















the Boones and Clarks and Wommacks

the Boatwrights, Rosses and Whittenburgs















We had the building at the top of the hill
We sat by the fireplace and visited















watched ballgames

11-11-2012 We got out on the road and the rig would not do over 30-35 mph. Bruce had the Cummins dealer call their technician to come in and put it on the computer. It was the lift pump again, like in Alabama. Here we are waiting on the technician at the Cummins dealer off I 85 in Charlotte, NC!


nothing like being parked at a service bay on a Sunday


We traveled on to Florence, SC to camp in Florence RV Park for the night.

A great stop over place














All kinds of ducks and geese in the pond

11-12-2012We traveled on to Myrtle Beach SC to Briarcliffe RV Resort. After getting set up, we went to the
Goodfellas Seafood Hut and Bar fpr seafood.


 
our site for two weeks at Briarcliffe RV Resort















Oh Yes!!  great site


11-13-2012 We went shopping at the Eddie Bauer Outlet on Hwy 501. Found some good buys. We had our MOD at K&W Cafeteria. I did some cleaning in the rig
Australia saw a complete solar eclipse. Will not see this again for over 400 years!

complete solar eclipse seen from Australia


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