Author: Lynn McKeown

Olivia is 10, big sister to Sarah 6 1/2 and Ariana, 5 (who built a castle earlier.)  Olivia came down, and decided to build her own lovely castle, which had a winding pebble road.  She wanted a photo with me(!)

Ariana 5 and Sarah 6 1/2, teamed up with their cousin Izzy 9, from Silver Spring, MD, with help from their young 74 year old grandpa Gerry, to make a great castle this morning. 

Today was another day with bad weather chasing us off the beach.  A storm came over, with thunder, lightning and rain.  I left an unfinished castle, and didn’t get a photo, but Bernard went down to the beach later, and took one for me (that I love!)

It was fun watching Bernard 18, Christine 17, and Billy 18 work together.  A few times, there was more sand on them than on their castle.  Billy was working with a bad knee, but had some great engineering ideas.  Bernard was great at making stairs; Christine kept working, with some human ‘roadblocks.

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Niamh 12, Caelan 9, and Sean 7 – teamed up with their cousins Hannah 12, and Kyle 10 – from Havertown, PA  today.  We were ‘rained out’ yesterday, but they really made up for it today!  Wonderful young people that I was lucky to teach, and to build next to them.

I went to the beach about 12:30, and there were 5 kids ready to build castles. But within the first half hour, we could hear thunder off in the distant Southwest. When I saw a lightning strike, I told the kids we needed to be off the beach.
We left all the buckets, shovels, and molds on the beach, thinking it would pass quickly, but it got worse – and I had to run back and get them safely up on the dune.
I barely made it back to the house before the heavy downpour started.
The forecast for tomorrow and Saturday don’t look very good, but it could be a good day for making cookies!

this castle was more like a fort today.  The builder (me) seemed to be moving like a sloth.