Sun by the Sea Blog

I never was one to follow the latest fad, in fact my sister Natalie was always amazed at what a trendsetter I was. (I used to be anyway.) I think blogging must be none other than the latest craze, it seems everyone is doing it. The local newspapers boast about having many of them. What I want to know… is where do you find the extra time to blog? And who has the time to sit around and read someone’s blog everyday? I am still contemplating “to blog or not to blog?”
I’m squeezing in what may be my last one for a while.

I haven’t posted anything since the day before my delivery came because that was the last day of my winter vacation. From here on out its double shifts, six days a week! of Wife, Mom, Sister, Daughter, Friend, Homemaker, Chef, Editor, Publisher, Artist, Photographer, Wildwood Historian, Delivery person, Saleswoman. . .

“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me!” ~Phillipians 4:13

The delivery is tomorrow… I know people are very hungry for it by the calls and emails coming in but for me the anticipation is just as great! I’ve been creating this issue all winter long. What I get most excited about are the people who are in it… the ones who will see their photo (especially the yearbook photos!) or the ones who will read their story or their family’s story. For this issue it’s 2 special people: Dave DelConte and Bobi Watson. I know they’re both going to cry when they see their stories!

This is me on our second delivery. Tomorrow’s is the 28th! I find it hard to believe!

Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.  ~W.T. Purkiser

Morning coffee and snow covered trees!

The cardinal has returned! I saw 3 on the island since last week!

“Our house, is a very, very, very fine house… with 2 dogs in the yard. . .”

~CSNY

Yesterday 100s of frozen people stood on the beach for over 2 hours to watch a bunch of people (who had been at Keenan’s Irish Pub since the day before) take the “Leprechaun Plunge” into the frigid 37° Atlantic Ocean. Some call them brave, I can’t get past the word “crazy.” I can’t find a rational explaination why anyone would want to do this. I don’t like going in the water until it’s good and warm by the end of July. Well, hope they had fun. I’m wondering how many of them had frost bite or hypothermia. I’m pretty sure the majority of them have major hangovers!

Temporary madness may be necessary in some cases, to cleanse and renovate the mind. . . ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827