it is saturday night in duck, nc. pam has gone up to bed. taylor, tead and his friend jonathan are watching yet another football game on the tube. the wind is blowing, but it isn't cold, and we have just returned for the second outing of the day looking for supplies. all is well. what the hell am i doing in duck, nc?
pam has purchased her dream. she now is a part owner in a beach house here in duck, a nice one. she has five weeks out of the year to come here and hang out. she will be by herself this week, the first week. i have come down for the weekend, as austin is with bebo and i needed a break. the last time i was in nags head was when we went on vacation in 1991 with pam and taylor in whalehead junction. i thought i was just pregnant with austin (i was) and i spent the whole week trying to decide whether or not i should buy an early pregnancy test in the food lion in corolla...
a lot has changed, but then again, so have i. when i was here with bebo before, we were sort of bored...or he was. i think i was ok sitting around reading on the deck and going on the beach. bebo would have preferred going somewhere else, and after this week we never went back to the beach again. in any case, here i am 14 years later with no bebo and no kid...and i am enjoying myself. it is amazing how this place has changed. it is greatly built up, but it isn't, at least in duck, like myrtle beach or va. beach. i think when you head to nags head or kill devil hills (south) it gets built up, but i haven't been there, only this end of the world.
the drive here last night was also interesting, as the road is 4 lane now the whole way. however, i could not enjoy it as the rain was coming down and driving at night is a nightmare for me. i got here, but i was white knuckling it the whole way.
pam and i went shopping for food and supplies and then took a walk on the beach. the water wasn't cold and we did it barefoot. then we went back out and walked around the little subdivison she is part of, port trinitie. we walked over to the sound side which has a pool and a long pier to a gazebo on the water. the sun was setting on the soundside water and it reminded me of the episcopalian camp at the end of talbot hall road in norfolk where warnie lives. i was there last when uncle harry died. austin, toddy and i walked down there and it was very peaceful. this was too. i think i could just as easily live on the sound side as the ocean, although both are nice.
taylor and the boys are going back on monday and i am leaving tomorrow. i took the day off yesterday to get the windshield changed on my car. mom and dad gave me their 1990 acura legend, and i did the dmv routine yesterday as well. visited with the aunties and the parental units. we went to atlas diner for lunch (fried flounder day and a good deal) and then i had sandwiches with them for dinner while i waited for pam and taylor to get to our area. warnie is getting a little slow. she fell down the night before and messed up her arm, bruising herself a lot and scraping the skin in a couple of places. she is declining and i wonder how long it will be before she can't live by herself anymore. she is happy, however, still has a sense of humor and does what she wants for the most part. she isn't driving as much or cooking much and falls asleep a lot. but she still jokes and is very easy to be around. aunt grace worries all of the time and talks all the time, but she is just being herself. it is a little hard to watch them age like this, but they are 86 and 84 and what do you expect from people at this age? we are lucky to have had them this long, and i have been blessed to get to 50 and still have the elderlys around.
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