It has been
2 years since the demise of Frolic and our last blog. I suppose some people may
have thought we went down with the ship. We got “blown” into the northwest part
of FL known as the panhandle. We bought
a 6 acre property that needed lots of TLC as we had to work with the insurance
company 8 months for a payout. The
pictures here are recent after much work.
The gate was an anniversary gift to Carl.
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| Our New Place |
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| A couple of cats came with the house |
We spent the first part of 2018 returning to
BVI and try to salvage some of our stuff and see the insurance
people…..again. We stayed with friends
on Ragamuffin and they sailed us to BVI to work. In April we took a cruise with Gordon and Sue
and stopped at all the islands we would have gone to if Irma had not destroyed
us. End of April saw Leslie having
surgery from an old injury so did the recovery bit, then put on our traveling
shoes and went visiting.
Aron and Maddie
joined Carl and Eric to sail Puurfect from Amelia Island FL to Newport,
RI.
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| Kids enjoy Amelia Is. |
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Eric is prepared to met Aron and
Madison at the airport |
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| The kids enjoy lunch |
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| Aron plots our course while Madison helps |
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| The crew at rest |
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Night watch Aron and Madison in
charge
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| We visit at Bret's |
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| Girls miss having a pet |
I took Kelly and the girls with me
as they wanted hot tubs and hotel rooms and we drove to meet the boat. We met the boat in Newport and sailed with
the kids to some of our old haunts, Cutty Hunk being the favorite.
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| We meet Dave and Jan at Block Is. |
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Girls meet the Blues Brothers
at Cutty Hunk |
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| Cutty Hunk bunkers |
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| Perrfect underway |
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| We visit Newport |
From there Carl and I took off for Canada to
visit friends at their lake cottage and down to NC to visit more friends at
their lake house. Seems all our friends
have lost their boats to Irma and are landlocked at present.
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Sue, Gordon, and Leslie on the
lake in Canada |
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| We do a tree walk in Canada |
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Wilma and Leslie enjoy the lake
in NC |
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| Some of our catfish catch in NC |
We met the kids again in Nov. in Norfolk and
connected with Rebel Marine where Carl and I lived on a boat many years
ago. The kids had a great time as the
Marina now has a hot tub and cruiser’s pot luck. Carl
and Eric sailed to Charleston where we all met up with Aron’s family and
in-laws to celebrate Thanksgiving.. We lost my Prius to a moon high tide. Who knew the river would rise over the
parking lot and drown the car. We ended
up with an unplanned new Prius. On this
trip we also went to DC as Aron was promoted to Lt. Colonel, very impressive
ceremony at Pentagon.
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| Sunset coming into Charleston |
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| The kids explore Charleston |
In Dec. Carl tried
his luck hunting a deer and caught a cold instead of a deer. We Spent Christmas
with the kids on Puurfect in Lake Worth.
It was cold!! Carl and Eric put
in a mooring in 34 degree weather and 0 visibility in the water, ugh but now
they had a place to anchor each time they came in and out of the states.
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| Purrfect's Grill Master at work |
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| Manatee sanctuary |
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| Eric and family |
2019 found us with visitors and working on
the property to finish much on the honey do list. We also had to fly back to
the Virgin Islands to take care of business, get our mail etc. We got back just in time to fly out to
Georgetown the Bahamas to meet up with the kids and enjoy the Family Island
Regatta. Eric was the announcer for the
class C races, made them very exciting. In May a 2 week trip to Kauai Hawii, a
beautiful island to hike, much of the western and northern areas are park. In June Eric and Kelly completed their 2yr
odyssey and sold the boat. We picked up
the girls and brought them back to finish school with us and explore the Walton
Beach area while the parents got the boat ready to turn over to new owner. Eric took a job with his prior company,
Boeing, and the whole family left after the 4th of July for MO.
Aron’s family visited in Aug so more exploring.
In November we flew to Albuquerque to visit the cousins there and catch
up. It had been 5 yrs. Again we went
hunting in NC and this year Carl got his deer just before we left to meet the
whole family in Butler TN for Thanksgiving, a week of eating and eating and
eating. The deer meat is still in NC as
we could not go back to get it.
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| Carl's deer |
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| The Family at Thanksgiving |
Our
niece got married in Dec. in the keys and it was a big family gathering with
family coming in from as far away as Australia.
And since we were in the keys we had to continue the party in Key
West. We rounded out the year with a
trip to MO. to spend Christmas with Eric and family and ring in 2020. Many more adventures happened in between as
well as lots of work on property but these are the highlights of the two years
since last we blogged.
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| Girls dress up for Halloween |
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| The Fly In at Lakeland |
Hope this finds everyone healthy and enjoying a
new year!
