Sunday Sightings

Here I am, up early this morning and trying to decide what today should include. First, we plan to hang out here until 10:00 when we will go next door to the pancake brunch. Then, we will try to make some family decisions on visiting with Don's sister. We were unable to get in touch with her; the telephone has been disconnected and the phone company knows nothing about it. We also tried her son's number and received no answer. We will try his business phone this morning.

We had planned to go to the Outer Banks Music Showcase one night this week but their Christmas show schedule doesn't begin until Nov. 17. They have a very short playing schedule, just on Thurs, Fri. and Sat. through December; I really don't understand unless there is no one here during the winter months. Even the summer months don't have a schedule that plays daily, just 3 times a week. it seems to be quite a lot of people here now though that could support the theatre.

Yesterday, we went to the lighthouse at Currituck. That's my favorite of the lighthouses, maybe because it looks much different since it is a reddish-color brick. Because it is privately owned, it stays open year round and is can be climbed. There were a lot of climbers there yesterday, even small children (with parents of course). There was also a line outside waiting to go up (they only allow a few at the time). There is a really neat little gift shop on the grounds which was playing the neatest music inside. The little porch has a few rockers inviting those non-shopping men to sit down for a spell. Parking is free and the cost to climb the lighthouse is only $6.00...very reasonable I think.

We then rode around Duck, taking a street named Sea Oats and rode down some of the prettiest little streets, hitting Dogwood Trail where many of the houses bordered little canals off the sound; others has homes built with the front facing the sound and the back on a canal...what a life!! Such real estate would be way out of our ownership reach! But, I'm satisfied where we are in the Piedmont.