[imagebrowser id=14] On Sunday of the Labor Day weekend we attended the historic St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Louisburg, NC and then Joy, Sherry, and Carol put the WaveRunner through its paces on the lake. St. Paul’s was built in circa 1904 by the congregation organized in 1895.  It is a small but wonderfully designed […]

Click Here to See the Album It was a real treat to have lunch with both my Father and my Son. Note: The video may take a moment to load, but it will be worth it.

Download HD Same story as yesterday, but now you can see the train and the Segways move.

Click for Album There was a special event going on at Wrightsville Beach this weekend.  I didn’t know about it until Joy called me at work to tell me that they’d mentioned it on NPR.  So, I changed away from my plan to go surfing. At 0-dark-thirty, Saturday we hopped in the old truck and […]

Click for Album Mary came down to the lake with Jimmy this weekend. Sadly, rain that wasn’t in the forecast was in the air. We badly need rain in this part of North Carolina, but it does limit one’s fun at the lake. Saturday we caught a showing of Salt at the theater in Wake […]

Sometimes one has to just take a break from that hectic WaveRunner riding and lake lounging. Today was one such day. We took the opportunity to run down to Wrightsville Beach. Folks in the Raleigh area flock to Wrightsville. We had checked it out when we first moved here, but the waves seemed too small […]

Click for Album Bobby, Lindsay and Clayton swung past on their way home from the beach and we enjoyed another day mostly on the water.  I say ‘mostly’ because we had a sudden thunderstorm chase us back to the dock from well down the lake.  I had turned on My Tracks before the rain started […]

My attempt to capture the excitement of “Enchanted April” in North Carolina instead of Italy.

Click for Album Saturday was just the beginning of a great weekend. Yesterday, Ruth came out with a few of her friends to enjoy some tubing and a brief tour of the lake. It was fun to show some folks from Morgantown that even a little lake like Lake Royale can be fun. After all, […]

Click for Album The title of this post is an expression Joy often uses as we enjoy our lake, a scene from a cruise ship portal, or time with you, our family and friends.  The greatest blessing in our opinion is the shared blessing.  Last weekend we enjoyed having family down from Morgantown and this […]