The End of Summer

The last couple weeks have been intense. Beruse was diagnosed with Diabetes and has been undergoing tight regulation of his glucose (more about him in his own post), Canon started school again, and we visited Paris and Carl's beach condo in Duck, NC.

As is the case, it seems every year we visit their condo, there was a tropical storm hitting NC while we are visiting the beach. On the day were we leaving it was just a little rain and wind. Let me say, that many years when the damage isn't beach side, it's effected home 3 hours away in Virginia. Hmmm...let me count the ways: 1996 honeymooning and with my father Hurricane Fran Cat 3 hit just South of Duck with not even a drop of rain at our beach but it clobbered Richmond and no power at home for a week. AAhhh.... Gaston on Aug. 29, 2004. Watching CNN at Duck and on the phone with Mitzi...who can forget the floating cars in downtown Richmond when our flood wall kept the water IN the down town area from Hurricane Gaston. One unique beach experience was last year with my family Kristin, Andrew and their 3 kids, Tropical Storm Ernesto dumped 20 inches of rain overnight causing flooding around the condo. It didn't spawn any Tornadoes, but it did cause the rather large in size and population of toads to start mating. Hundreds and Hundreds of mating frogs. The kids, Juliet and Austin got two for one deals when they started collecting the fist sized frogs refusing to let go of their lovers.

There is always the typical beach fun: sunning, swimming, drinking, eating, boating, fishing, drinking, eating, jet skiing, seashell collecting, sand in your crevices, drinking and eating. But I also love the inevitable weather factor that adds that something special.