Happy Halloween!

This year, the weeks leading up to Halloween have not been full of pumpkin flavored foods and creepy treats, pumpkin carving, or trick-or-treaters. But instead I lived through my first hurricane, Frankenstorm Sandy, wore my skeleton necklace to work, drank my hot coco out of a snowman mug and called it a day. Tonight, I’ll curl up on the couch with my little family, eat a warm meal and watch a scary movie. Just the type of Halloween I’m looking for, simple, quiet and calm, just like everything else in my life lately.

I hope you all enjoy your Halloween, in whatever way you will celebrate. 

Plus, This is hilarious!

Also, I have officially hit 5000 page views! Thank you to all my fans for reading!
Plus some pictures of Hatteras Island after Hurricane Sandy. Weather is amazing.

Farewell Sandy

Sandy, as the first hurricane that I’ve lived through, you sure did make your mark. Showing your first signs on a Friday, moving in throughout the weekend and extending your stay through Monday and Tuesday, you just wouldn’t go back home to where you belonged.

You visited many of my favorite OBX places, ripping apart our favorite fishing pier, destroying our old Bonner Bridge and parts of the historic Mirlo Beach and Hatteras Island, but I thank you for leaving my little home safe and dry. And you didn’t even take my power, not once. I would have at least given you that, had you wanted it. I would have traded an hour of two of power to save the Avalon Pier, but you didn’t ask me. I guess you didn’t have time, though you spent close to a week at my home before heading north to visit my friends in Philly and NYC. Please be as kind to them as you were to me.

Oh Sandy, you frankenstorm, did you know that Halloween was my favorite holiday and that during your visit I burned a frankincense candle just for you?

All Photos courtesy of Outer Banks Voice. 

Our Avalon Pier

Collington Harbour 

New Inlet Under Water

Waves near our house

And finally, the calm after the storm