I’m behind keeping track of our activities; need to do better. After renting and moving into the cottage on Monroe Bay in Colonial Beach to watch our newly purchased home be remodeled we discovered the activity level much higher than when in Florida.
The old home owners moved out on 10 Sep and we started our remodeling effort that included: removing an old unused chimney, installing a tray ceiling in the living room, replacing all kitchen cabinets, installing central air, replacing several major windows, replacing the entire house flooring, painting the entire inside of the home, and adding a sunroom onto the living room, as well as cleaning up the outside and adding a fence for Maddie in the back yard. The work is planned to complete the end of October except for the sunroom that will complete sometime during November when the windows we ordered finally arrive.
As we watched and monitored the home repair work we reversed an earlier decision about selling the boat. We decided to keep the 37′ Maxum for a while and see how it works for us with our new game plan. An old friend, Bill Bowman and I traveled to Beafort, NC 19 September and picked up the boat. That evening we made it to Oriental, NC, the next two days we made 100 miles per day stopping first at Alligator River Marina, then Norfolk, VA. We had some 4 foot seas out of Oriental for a few hours and then great weather the rest of the trip into Norfolk. The Chesapeake was making a fuss so we left the boat at Blue Water Marina in Hampton VA and traveled to CB by car. Carey, Maddie, and I drove down to Hampton early October 2 and brought the boat up the Chesapeake Bay and Potomac River for the last 120 miles to Colonial Beach. Both trips were great.
Over this same period we also started enjoying Colonial Beach again. We renewed our acquaintance with the Riverboat and “Rocking Roger” a one man band that has played in town more many years. We attended the annual Beach Music Concert at the Town Stage. We joined in again with the Westmoreland Yacht Club at their yearly Pig Roast, and really enjoyed seeing some old friends at the event, many we now see daily in town. And the old restaurants are as great as ever.
We also got back into crab eating at the Demoncratic Crab Fest and Fund Raiser at the end of September.
While enjoying these activities we did manage to get one of our cars sold, buy a golf cart, as this is a golf cart driving town, and hook back up with our family doctor.
We’ve just now moved onto the boat as it is here and it makes a nice waterside cottage for us to use until we can move into our newly remodeled home 30 October 2021 (we sure hope that’s the date!). The one disappointment over this period was that we had to cancel a planned trip to Carey’s high school reunion. I was informed I was in contact with a person with COVID so it was prudent for me to get the test and quarantine and that time coincided with the reunion. All ended well. No Covid here.
Here are a few pictures … forgot to take them at most of the events.
