We woke up to find that Brian's bicycle had been stolen from the Union Point Public docks. It had been locked up to an iron fence with a heavy metal lock. Whoever it was had a job of cutting through the chain, but left no sign of anything. We reported it to the police, but it is gone.
We pulled anchor and returned to the club. That evening was the monthly social. Good to see familiar faces again.
Sunday, September 20
Brian and I took a bike ride over to NW Creek to walk the docks and ended up looking at a 57 ft boat. Not interested. That afternoon Brian went for a short sail with a buddy.
Monday, September 21
Went for an early morning bike ride, school with the boys, and dinner in the club house with friends, Tom, Doug, and George.
Tuesday, September 22
School in the morning with the boys. That afternoon, Brian, Jacob, and Caleb put a sail rig on the dinghy and messed around with it in the creek for a while.
Wednesday, September 23
School with the boys. Brian helped friends take their boat to Duck Creek, to be pulled while they prepare to travel. They picked up Hardee's for lunch and brought it back for all of us.
Thursday, September 24
School in the morning. Excited for 4pm to arrive. Geri came to pick up the boys and I for a long weekend visit to their house in Grifton.
Brian stayed at the club with the boat.
Friday, September 25
The boys and I went to visit Nana. Right before we returned from the Chesapeake, she broke her ankle and has had two surgeries.
That night, back in Grifton, our friends surprised the boys with an evening of Laser Tag in Greenville. We got to the place about 8pm and they stayed until almost midnight. Partway through the evening, Geri and I went on a Krispy Kream doughnut and coffee run, then wandered around Kohl's. Back to the Laser Tag place to wait for the boys to finish, have a doughnut and then back to the house for showers and bed.
Saturday, September 26
Everyone enjoyed sleeping in, having a late breakfast, then waiting for some other friends for our former Home School group to come visit for the afternoon.
Meanwhile, back in New Bern, Blackbeard Sailing Club was starting to flood due to the windtide. Windtide is when the wind simply blows water towards land for a long period of time.
Sunday, September 27
We attended church, back to the house for lunch and then a grocery run. That evening after Bible Study, Geri drove the boys and I back to New Bern.
Monday, September 28
School in the morning. The weather was continuing to be rainy for the fourth straight day.
Tuesday, September 29
School, dinner in the clubhouse with friends.
Wednesday, September 30
School. Brian continued work on removing a holding tank from in the back of the aft stateroom. He and Jacob removed old hose by removing panelling to get access.
We hurried to finish our work, so we could meet our friends, Andy and Sally to go have lunch and run errands.
During this time there were reports of a hurricane, that could possibly come right for NC. People came down to the club and got their boats prepared in case it did.
Thursday, October 1
The hurricane moved out to sea, but the rains came. We moved our boat from being at anchor to tying up at the end of "C" dock.
Friday, October 2
School and rain.
Our friends, the Floyd's and Johnson's stopped by the club and we got to visit a while. Joni and Sally took me to the store for a couple of things and ended up getting several treats for the boys. They also conspired to "kidnap" me the next day to go to the Seafood Festival in Morehead.
Saturday, October 3
The boys stayed at the club with Brian. I enjoyed a beautiful, funfilled day.
It sprinkled just a little bit while we were driving down.
Sunday,Monday, October 4-5
The rain returned and things started flooding again. We kept a sharp eye on the rising levels. At it's worst, the water got within 20 feet of the front gate.
Tuesday, October 6
The rain receded over night. After breakfast, a group of men and the boys cleaned and swept under the clubhouse, picked up small stuff that had floated away.
Wednesday, October 7
School in the morning, then the Hardee's come down for a day visit. The kids played ball, card games, rode bikes and just hung out together. Geri and I got to go for a long walk and visit.
Thursday, October 8
We moved the boat back to New Bern to anchor out. Brian enjoys anchoring there so he can ride a bike into town for errands. This time we loaded the bike into the dinghy and kept it on the boat every night.
Friday, October 9
School. Rainy day. Closer to evening we watched workers setting up for the Mum Fest.
Saturday, October 10
We walked around the Mum fest in the morning and then, the Kozel's came down to meet us and visit in the afternoon. It was so great to be able to see more friends before we have to leave again.
Sunday, October 11
Another day at Mum Fest.
Monday, October 12
Drizzly day. When we got a small weather window in the afternoon, we pulled anchor and came back to BSC.
Tuesday, October 13
Geri came and picked the boys and I up for several days in Grifton. We brought school books to do school with her boys. That evening we went to Daniel's baseball game.
Wednesday, October 14
Geri took me a a local restaurant, gift shop, farm store called Yoder's. Great morning. The boys at at home and got started with school. That afternoon, we babysat a cute little three year old. Busy busy guy. That evening, Geri and I walked to church and had nursery duty watching a sweet 1 year old.
Thursday, October 15
The boys and I got to go on a field trip to a local creamery. Simply Natural is the name. They raise Jersey cows and make and sell milk, butter, ice cream, as well as many other products from other local farmers.
After the tour, we took the kids back to the house and went grocery shopping.
That evening Geri treated me to dinner at Rucker John's restaurant in Greenville along with several ladies from her Bible Study group. Then we went to Dollar Tree and got enough stuff to fill 24 boxes for the Samaritan's Purse Ministry.
Friday, October 16
After breakfast, we loaded up the van and came back to the club. Got all of the groceries, laundry, and school books put away.
Tomorrow is work day at the club, which is always a fun day.
We are planning to leave on Sunday morning to head south to Florida for a couple of months. Our new boat cards arrived while we were in Grifton.
Our good friend, Captain Archer got the picture of our boat and rainbow.
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