Nothing gives me more pleasure than to watch my grandbabies enjoying the beach as much as I do.  Little Lucy (14 months) was our youngest beach baby with us on Emerald Isle this year...

photo credit Judy Hall

I remember Ryan Lohrey as one of my son Kamaron's fellow senior classmates on the 2004 Raider championship football team. (Kamaron was #1, and his friend Ryan was the bald guy kneeling in front of him.)

Everyone has a special place in her heart, a place associated with happiness where you can go in your mind when you need to calm yourself, relax, and destress.

You're going to leave a little smarter today after reading this post...maybe even learn some answers just in case "Jeopardy" calls.  Ready for a quick history lesson?

Our much-anticipated annual trek to Emerald Isle, North Carolina always begins with an early morning departure.

The Nettle Creek Players tent theater was a summer regular during my teenage years in the small town of Hagerstown, Indiana.

My bean-pickers are way cuter than yours!

Here we are...the 2017 edition of the Gray Family Reunion.

And no, I'm not trying to hide...I hurried into the far left back row after setting the camera timer, beside my Kimmie and behind little Hayden.  She's so much cuter than me!

The evening of July 7, just before dusk, I took this photo.  Once again, we had been slammed with a torrential rainstorm, flooding the fields and garden and completely flattening our first planting of sweet corn.

I'm back!  Did you even miss me?!