Shipslog: Try something new maybe even crazy?

Saturday, November 2, 2024

Try something new maybe even crazy?

A picture from the Past.

Our next to last house under construction

Below I am lining the Pool room with Canadian Cedar.

For Today:

Like a lot of people, we had NO trick or treaters here at Halloween. So, we MUST eat that bag of candy we bought for them, SHUCKS!

I have mentioned I prepare the coffee around here. Sherry says I make the BEST. (at times I wonder about her reason. LOL) WE no longer use a percolator, but our Mr. Coffee is pretty old. So as I made coffee that night I decided to try something NEW. I put a small snack size ‘3 Musketeers’ bar in with the coffee grounds, just to try something different.

Okay, that was not a great idea. It sorta stopped up the filter and overflowed the grounds and DID NOT enhance the taste of the coffee. As a matter of fact at this writing a day later, Sherry did not comment on any difference in her morning coffee. LOL, so much for sweetened flavored coffee at our house that I expected. LOL

Some of my family have done odd/ crazy things. My brother Junior tried several business starts, but hit his stride in making concrete yard decorations. Bird Baths, chics and ducks, etc.

Brother Junior and Mozelle his wife in front of their store. The business was started in his back yard while they worked in the cotton mill. Jun was a hero of mine, he served as Port Gunner on his ship in the South Pacific.

Brother Odis could do anything with wood. He was a truck driver and drove past the USS North Carolina (a WWII Battle Ship) twice a week. He made sketches of it and finally built a 9 foot model of it. He got carried away and finally had a fleet. Even did the Pinta, Nina and the Santa Marie. They were displayed in many new buildings at their opening. One was the NCNB TOWER in Charlotte, NC

Below Shirley and I delivered the model to the USS North Carolina monument where it was displayed for many years.

Below is most of Odis's fleet.

Above is Odis with the Pinta. NONE of his ships were from kits, he did them all from scratch.

Yeah, I have also did the crazy. Sherry wanted a swimming pool. I have never liked the outdoor pools. They are a pain to maintain and expensive to keep regulated. So on our next to last house, I put a pool inside. The Grand kids loved it. We did too. There were no closing and opening spring and fall, that is expensive. It cost us about $6 a month to maintain the inside pool, it stayed at 92 degrees. (Night view)

I installed sliding glass doors on two sides for ventilation and comfort in the summer. I liked the Cedar, I was advised never to put a finish on it, and it would handle the moisture well, and it did. I enjoyed hanging that cedar, it was a fun job.
This is the fun view, we loved it. BUT we decided to travel full time and could not leave the pool unattended, so we sold it.

Below is the house on South Main after completion.