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Monday, June 25, 2012

My First Official Summer Weekend

The city has been hot in an unbearable way. With that in mind Simon and I first put in our new window unit to cool our bedroom, and then we hopped in our car and got out of the city.

On Friday we went blueberry picking and took our friend Mike with us. While it was still hot out at Linvilla there was at least some shady trees and a breeze.

We picked a little over 8 pounds of blueberries. I plan on making more jam and some blueberry scones ASAP.

The peaches were also ready at Linvilla and we decided to pick a few pounds to eat and bake with.

Here I am standing among the peach trees in the orchard. My new favorite website is PicMonkey, it's similar to Picnik (which is no longer around), but much more user friendly. I played around with some of the filters to get this great vintage look. It reminds me of the old pictures of my grandparents from the 70's.

There were so many peaches that the trees were weighted down and some of the branches were touching the ground.

Later that night we had a massive storm. It howled down our street and pelted our windows with sheets of rain. It was lovely. I took a few pics from our window while the storm was at it's worse.

Saturday was beautiful and Simon and I loaded up our surf boards and drove to the shore even though the surf report wasn't in our favor. We were in for a surprise, because the waves were way better than the surf report let on. Most of the surfers had left after the morning surf was starting to be blown out by the afternoon winds. I'm use to choppy surf and I had a blast riding my little yellow board. It was one of the best days surfing I've had since Oz. Simon was even impressed by how I did, and if I can impress an Aussie surfer who's been riding waves for 25 years than that's a win for me.

After many hours spent in the surf I took a nap in the sun like a fat cat until Simon came back from his walk to wake me up.

It was a perfect day at the beach and I'm glad to see some familiar faces in the life guard station. The 7th street surf beach may not be the biggest surf, or the least crowded beach, and it may be the Jersey Shore, but it will always be my home beach when it comes to surf.

Thanks guys for keeping the surf beach clear of swimmers so us surfers can catch some rad rides!

Monday, April 25, 2011

Welcom Home

Currituck Light house, We climbed to the top

We are back from our vacation on the Outer Banks. It was amazing. Warm, sunny and there was surf to be had. Mind you cold surf, cold enough that we ended up buying booties to wear with our wet suits. My friend Jo from England calls the wet suit sock and I think surf socks is what I will be calling them from now on.

Sound Side

Our first day and pretty much everyday was beautiful. With so much good weather I will admit that my stripped sweater did not make much progress but I have set a deadline for myself and have till June to finish it. I am almost done with the sleeve and will have to post some new photos of it tomorrow.

Me on the beach on the day of our failed trip to find Horses.

One of the days on the Island we went in search of the wild horses that live just north of Corolla. We had no luck finding them, but had a great time looking for them and a lovely walk on a practically deserted beach. We had to console our selves the next day with a trip to the Duck Deli for lunch. Where I drowned my disappointment in a delicious pulled pork sandwich and all was well.

The floral frock I worked so diligently on the last month finally gets a night on the town.

I even got to wear one of my new creations while on vacation. We all went out to dinner and I wore my new floral frock out. I even pulled out the pearls. I did realize that the dress needs some side seem alteration under the arms and through the bodice, but that will be a quick and easy fix. Other than that this dress fits perfectly and is light and airy.

All and all a great vacation. We came back to Philly to wonderful weather. It feels good to be home in our tiny apartment. There is a new addition to our home. Cuz what surfing trip would be complete without buying a new surf board?

My new board, just like my McCoy in Oz only a West Winds in the States

Well it's new to me and was such a great deal I couldn't pass it up. It's just like the board I was using in Oz, its vintage and it's a wonderfully garish yellow. It needs a few dings mended, but all in all a perfectly sound board. And no one can miss me out in the surf with a yellow board.

Being back is great, I can't wait to start surfing on the shore. Although Simon and I are going to have to wait a few weeks as the water temp on the shore is still a tad too cold even with surf socks and wetsuits. on the knitting front some of my yarn is featured in a treasury on Esty, and I've re-listed some hanks of sock yarn in my shop. To top it all off the weather here in Philly is warm and sunny, it looks like a good week ahead.

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Vintage: The Beach

Thought I'd mix it up and find some vintage items that are beach inspired. I am gearing up for my first trip to the shore in a few days and can't wait hopefully the water temp will be in the high 50's so I won't freeze too much. Also I was inspired by this treasury I'm in, it's called "Beach", check it out.