December 8, 2007
Dear Family and Friends,
Barb and I had a wonderful visit in Wrightsville Beach, NC with Tom and Vickie. I hope that they realize what an advantage it is to us to have their help. We used their truck and ran errands for provisioning. I made a looky bucket using one of Tom’s found buckets and a piece of clear Plexiglas (also a found item.) This is a great item for use in clear water for visually checking how well the anchor is set and for seeing other underwater wonders without getting wet. I repainted the outboard motor gas can. Vickie made great dinners for us and we slept at their house on some of the really cold nights. Barb and Vickie went shopping, went to old Wilmington to see the Christmas decorations and walked together. Barb and I walked the beach looking for sea glass and found a couple of pieces that were big enough for
Barb to make jewelry from them.
Dear Family and Friends,
Barb and I had a wonderful visit in Wrightsville Beach, NC with Tom and Vickie. I hope that they realize what an advantage it is to us to have their help. We used their truck and ran errands for provisioning. I made a looky bucket using one of Tom’s found buckets and a piece of clear Plexiglas (also a found item.) This is a great item for use in clear water for visually checking how well the anchor is set and for seeing other underwater wonders without getting wet. I repainted the outboard motor gas can. Vickie made great dinners for us and we slept at their house on some of the really cold nights. Barb and Vickie went shopping, went to old Wilmington to see the Christmas decorations and walked together. Barb and I walked the beach looking for sea glass and found a couple of pieces that were big enough for
Barb to make jewelry from them.On Tom’s day off, he and Vickie took us south of Myrtle Beach, SC to Brookgreen Gardens to participate in the festivities of their Night of One Thousand Candles. Brookgreen Gardens was the site of a plantation, but the mansion burned down. The grounds are beautifully planted and there is statuary everywhere. For this holiday occasion the grounds were accented with many more than one thousand candles and once the sun went down hoards of volunteers were scurrying to light them all. There were three 
different music venues and the grounds are so expansive that the sounds and applause at one was not heard at any of the others. That was a great day. For something completely different, Tom and I put on our suits and went for a dive to clean the boat’s bottom. We used wet suits. Those were the suits I meant. We also used my new SeaBreathe unit which is like SCUBA, but without the tank. Two people using hoses from an electric powered compressor can dive together. The water temperature was around 60 so it was good to be doing work to keep warm while we 
were underwater. Barb and I spent a couple of cold nights onboard while the expected windy, cold weather arrived right on time. The anchor held tight and we kept warm under two layers of down sleeping bags.
On Dec 5th Stardust arrived and I was able to take Jim and Kathy to get groceries using Tom and Vickie’s truck and then with Rachel we all went to Tom and Vickie’s. The Lees have now met all of my siblings. We all packed into the car and the truck and
went out to Indochine, one of our favorite restaurants. On the way back we stopped to pick up a movie for Rachel’s schoolwork and since Rachel was in between Barb and me in the truck she learned to operate the stick shifter.
different music venues and the grounds are so expansive that the sounds and applause at one was not heard at any of the others. That was a great day. For something completely different, Tom and I put on our suits and went for a dive to clean the boat’s bottom. We used wet suits. Those were the suits I meant. We also used my new SeaBreathe unit which is like SCUBA, but without the tank. Two people using hoses from an electric powered compressor can dive together. The water temperature was around 60 so it was good to be doing work to keep warm while we 
were underwater. Barb and I spent a couple of cold nights onboard while the expected windy, cold weather arrived right on time. The anchor held tight and we kept warm under two layers of down sleeping bags.On Dec 5th Stardust arrived and I was able to take Jim and Kathy to get groceries using Tom and Vickie’s truck and then with Rachel we all went to Tom and Vickie’s. The Lees have now met all of my siblings. We all packed into the car and the truck and
went out to Indochine, one of our favorite restaurants. On the way back we stopped to pick up a movie for Rachel’s schoolwork and since Rachel was in between Barb and me in the truck she learned to operate the stick shifter.We will depart tomorrow. Thank you so much Tom and Vickie.
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