A Great Day with Giselle

Our friend Giselle is visiting us for the week so we decided to take her on a beachcombing trip downshore to our favorite beach. What a great day for treasures. We found the most number of rare colours of all our beach trips ever!

The orange seaglass is a first find for me for this very rare colour. We also found grey, teal, citron and mauve, along with many small blue pieces.

I even found this interesting piece of white seaglass shaped like a boot.


This is Giselle's total collection for the afternoon, including a rock the shape of a boot.


This is Paul's neatly arranged collection for the day.


And here is my afternoon collection. What great fun.


A friend of ours asked if a bottle factory had exploded at the beach or if we had a glass sniffing dog with us! I think Elaine is due for a trip to our favourite place.

After a long, hot afternoon of strolling the beach, we were ready for a great barbecue meal, which was prepared by three cooks. Notice who is at the table with fork in hand first, all smiles!


After dinner we sat out on the deck being entertained by the Hummingbirds at our feeders.

A very enjoyable day for all.

A Great Birthday

Well, the birthday guy had a great day (17 February), so he said. He started his morning requesting a homemade omelette and coffee for his breakfast and then relaxed for a couple of hours on our sunny deck reading his newspaper and watching the ocean waves.

We took a long beach walk together and enjoyed the view of a couple of dolphins swimming close by.

The afternoon and evening were spent at Paul's new favourite place, Hannah Banana's Sunshine Cabana in Murrells Inlet. Unfortunately the sun and wind did not cooperate as much as we could have liked so we only were able to sit outside for a little while, but long enough to enjoy a couple of cool beers and appetizers.

It is such a great place on the intercoastal waterway and we were able to watch a couple of boats go by. This one, being a local shrimp boat.


We didn't get to enjoy a colourful sunset that evening, but the sky was lovely, just the same.

We moved our little party inside once the sun went down. Their bar has quite a selection of beverages. My sister even tried a pumpkin liqueur. It was a little too spice flavoured for me.

We enjoyed a meal of great burgers and then I drove the birthday guy and my sister home.

I shouldn't say this, but - we ate so much food at dinner that we had to postpone having the birthday cake at home until the next day. Which was a good thing!

Here's to many more birthdays together cutie.....

Finished Deck

Our back deck is now finished. I have yet to use it though, as I was away all weekend and it is raining today.

On Friday night Paul had a barbecue with his brother and yesterday he enjoyed reading his book while sitting in his rocking chair, on the lower level.

Side views and storage area under the deck.

Hopefully the sun will shine tomorrow so I can use my new clothesline. I also have new clothes pins that my friend Giselle gave me for Christmas. The pins were bought at Lee Valley and are suppose to have a heavy spring so they won't break with the wind.

I'm looking forward to my morning coffee out there soon.