Three Things

Welcome to Three Thing Thursday, where I share three five six things and you share three.  Or five.  Six.  Whatever floats your boat.

1. My sincere apologies for the delay in posting the pictures and info on my trip to Beachland, the historic Mathews home dating to the 1700s.   The good Lord willin' and the creek don't rise, I'll have everything posted on Friday.

2.  My daughter's first dance is on Saturday.

3.  My son's first formal dance is next Saturday.

4.  I have forty-eleven-thousand things converging over these next several weeks.  Things such as book signings; Christmas preparations (Can't we skip Christmas this year?- Signed, Ebenezer Scrooge); my mother's 70th birthday on Christmas Eve;  the neighborhood Christmas party; work, personal property taxes due;  new technology to learn; work; an improperly functioning camera; Christmas bills; my 16-year-old son approaching one of the final hurdles before being able to legally drive;  no car for me him to drive; a trip to New York City between Christmas and New Year's and did I mention my 13 year-old-daughter has a dance this weekend when only yesterday I was dropping her off at preschool?

5.  I wish I were in Bali with Javier Bardem.

6. Today's pictures (which are actually last winter's pictures that have been sitting here in draft for months) show the back side of Westview Inn, one of two legendary inns at Ward's Corner. Oh, the stories this building could tell.

Now it's your turn to share three or six things.  Whatever you feel like, anything at all.


Have a great Thursday. Welcome to December.

Pictures, Part Two

Workboat on Davis Creek, July 4, 2010

Welcome to Part Two of pictures from 2010 that never made it on to the blog.  Of the thousands and thousands of photos I take, only a very small percentage are shared here.

Here are scenes from July through December of this year.  There's no rhyme or reason or theme to them, just as there's no real rhyme or reason or theme to this blog.

Life in Mathews is like a box of chocolates.  Sometimes it's sweet, most of the time sometimes it's nutty, and mostly you swear you're never eating chocolate again you never know what you're gonna get.

The edge of our boat house, August 2010

Chesapeake Bay Father cutting the daffodil field, September 2010. He turns 70 in a few weeks.

House near Haven Beach. October 2010

Williams Wharf Road, November 2010

Westview Inn, December 2010

One brief word about Westview Inn: Come Heres will likely not know about Westview and Eastview Inn, but they surely have passed by them a million times. Westview is just before Lynne's Restaurant on the left if you're coming from the Court House. Eastview is just past Ward's Corner (the intersection with Rte. 14) on the left. Both of these places were quite popular back in the day and most people my age and older have more than a few stories to share about the lively cast of characters who frequented these establishments.  (One such legend was named Watergate.)


Currently there is a For Sale sign in front of Westview, and I am trying to convince my good friend to purchase it and open up a place to sell his soon-to-be world famous chicken wings, which are slow cooked over charcoal. Don't you think Westview Wings has a certain wing ring to it?


Speaking of daydreams, potential opportunities, and new endeavors, I hope your New Year is full of nothing but good wings things. Here's to a clean slate and better days ahead.

Happy New Year