Category: Sand Castles on the beach

The sandcastle lady is stumped. I took the picture of these kids and their castle on my camera, same setting as all the other photos I took today, but my website says it exceeds the limit, and won’t insert it.
I can tell you that these three worked well together, and the castle was big (maybe that’s the reason?)
EUREKA! (not the vacuum cleaner.) I found a way around it – and here they are (I hope!)

Haley, 10 years old, from Lewes, with her castle. She was a great student, and helped teach her cousin, Peyton.

Peyton, 7 years old, from Lewes, alongside his castle. Peyton was a good listener, and came back to say thank you for the sandcastle lesson.
(photo would NOT turn, for some reason!) June, 5 years old gave her mom instructions on building this castle (and her mom, Sue really got into building.)

Iris, 7 years old, said it was a 5 hour drive to Lewes that should only have been 3 hours, from Harrisburg. She did a nice job, and built her castle by herself.

Here’s my castle today, surrounded by water.

This is the East side of my castle, being beaten down by the tide.

Rain and clouds over the beach on Thursday, so the Sandcastle Lady transformed into Gardening Lady. (Dirt, rain and sweat completed my disguise.) I wish I could say it was easier to pull weeds, but here in Lewes, when crab grass rizones spread, they can get to be 2′ long! I got a lot done, but there’s more to go. (I’m not hoping for a bad day, though!)

I had to say goodbye to a wonderful family today. Colin, Jameson, mom/Michelle, and Molly, from Toughkennamon, PA. I will look forward to seeing them again next August!

Today was a great beach day; enough clouds that it wasn’t too sunny/hot; nice breeze out of the Northeast.

Wednesday’s castle, with my friend, Cecilia 7 yrs old, from Wilmington, DE. She was good company!

Thumbs up for Cecilia’s castle!

It was so nice to be back on the beach! I went a little after 1pm, and was welcomed by Molly, Colin, Jameson and their mom, Michelle (from Toughkennamon, PA) whom I had taught last year, and also Laurie, Steve, Georgia and Heather Grab, from West Chester, PA.
Although it was very hot (97 f), there was a strong wind coming out of the West.
My ‘cabana boy,’ Jack, came down to the beach around 3:30pm, and brought another bag of sand tools for me. (There are two more bags that need to come down tomorrow.)
We stayed till 4:30pm, with a promise that we could go to Irish Eyes, to have the supper that I declined on our first night. After showering, we went early to Irish Eyes at 5:30pm, and we were ahead of the crowd who started filing in around 6pm.
I had their Vegetable Spring Rolls and some steamed shrimp; Jack had their burger with crumbled blue cheese.

This is one of my grandchildren (Jonah – just turned 2), inspecting the ‘fish tank.’

My neighbor, John, had a wonderful wooden sign on his outside shower that said “Whalecome”, but it was so worn and chipped, you could hardly read it.

I decided to ‘sneak over’ with my paints, and give it a bit of life!
John hinted that I should sneak over again, and paint some seagulls on his white flower barrels….

Yesterday, I built my last castle of the summer of 2014. It was my favorite, by far (of course almost every day I have built a castle, I said it was my favorite.) But this one really is. Jack sat with me, as I built (which is unusual for my favorite beach vampire – who only goes there early morning or late afternoon.) I finished building in about 2 1/2 hours, and left, looking back, so I’d remember.

Very nice building on the beach – a nice breeze and sunshine made it very pleasant.