Author: Lynn McKeown

What a great day on the beach today!Aziza and Liia came, asking about castles. They were born in Kazan, Russia, living in Malvern, PA now. 💗 Dimitri and his wife, from Russia, living in Montreal now, friends from the beach for many years, found me! They had a conversation in Russian, with the girls💗 Bill, a friend of the 9 yo twins Katie and Ryan that I taught earlier this month, came to tell me that their teacher showed the class my website, with castles💗My son Brendan brought Julie and their 3 children, building a wonderful castle!💗There was a sweet note waiting for me in a sandwich bag this morning, from Molly, Jason, Harvey and Lila💗

A Southerly breeze today 💗Max (6) and his castle, Callie (8) and her castle, both from Ellicott City, Baltimore, MD, and my castle today.

my castle today

A cloudy, calm day on the beach today, light wind from the Southeast. Best day so far!
Bill Newcott , from Delaware Beach Life came, for a visit this morning. They would like to do an article for the Summer 2024 issue.
Jill and her sister Ann stopped by, saying they saw my posts on “I Love Lewes”, and were friends of my brother, Bill Hicks , and go to the Tavern on the first Fridays.💗 Ginny came by just before I was leaving today.

Today was a much better beach day than yesterday.First thing this morning, Conway and Annette brought their granddaughter, Rose💗 Molly brought Harvey and Lila to say hi this morning 💗 Randy, his son Lowen and daughter Beta were walking, and stopped by 💗Diane, whom I met last year, came by, too.💗Emma (6) and brother, Luke (9) were here, from Milton, with their cousin Archer (12), from Holden, NY 💗 Emma decided to hang out with me for the rest of the day.💗

Today, castle tops came down – the first photo shows a great black backed gull, who decided to perch on a neighboring castle, taking out their castle top. The second picture shows the damage he caused. The third is another neighboring castle that survived. And the last picture is my castle that lost its top before I finished the village. I did the best I could, reaching over the village, to the top, making what I could, of the collapsed tower. The last picture is Emma (6), from Milton, who kept me company while I worked.

great black backed gull perched on a neighboring castle

Results of that perching

High wind from the North earlier this morning kept the flies away. The biting flies came after lunch. Stumpy came for lunch again. The wind pushed the tide way up, around my castle. When I went down this morning, there were the remnants of a sweet Thank You, written in pebbles!💗Camden and Max, from Baltimore, brought their two children Phee (7) and Jules (4). Very nice to talk to them, and show them how to pack a sand mold.💗 I have sand toys free to good homes, in the two bags in front of the tree. 🏰Here is my castle today 💗 🏰

Just a little breeze today on the beach, but a nice day, without flies!💗. Carol Denlinger stopped by, with her husband, Beany. 💗 Sam (4 1 / 2), from Oregon, gave me a tour of Peregrine and Mary Pearl’s tunnel and castle. Both Mary Pearl (9) and Peregrine (8) are from Baltimore. 🏰💗Natalie stopped by, with some inspirational words. 💗 Stumpy the one footed seagull came for a little lunch. 💗And the big news was a fun interview building today’s castle with WDRE Coast News, that was televised at 6pm tonight!🏰

WRDE Coast News came to Massachusetts Street beach this morning, to do a little news interview with me. Tori Seagraves, their reporter and Matthew were fun, and very easy to work with. It will air at 6pm tonight, and will be on their website.

granddaughter, Maura (8) and her castle

Wind from the East, and a few flies in the late afternoon.
So nice to see Carol Denlinger this morning 💗
Ari and his dad, Reed, walked up from the Market Street beach, and were happy to find me! 💗 Katie brought Charlie and Harper, from Wilmington 💗 Marlene brought her daughter, Holly, from Delaware County, PA 💗 Robin, from Shippensburg, Theresa from Hagerstown, MD, and Pam, from Milton were walking, and stayed awhile to visit with me 💗Molly brought Harvey and his little sister up, from the Market Street beach, and were pleased they found me!💗 Sad to say goodbye to Mary Garbiesi , who was leaving on the 6:15 ferry. So nice to spend time on the beach with her🌞💗
My castle on Sunday – with beautiful sailboats out on the bay.⛵