Cold weather means painting indoors

I'm finally getting busy with several of the home improvement/maintenance jobs that I had set myself to do this winter. After a few weeks of stalling the painting project with all kinds of excuses, I finally could not find any other delaying-tactic so I had to start the project. So the last few days, I have been busy indoors and haven't done much outside. Of course, the 'cold' weather is not cold enough to prevent us from doing our regular morning walk or the mandatory visit to the post office, but nevertheless is not warm enough to want to hang outside for too long.

Weather wise, last Thursday (11/15) was rather stormy. It rained part of the day and the waves were quite impressive. I'm trying this quick video from my digital camera to see how this works. It is looking from our deck. If you put the volume up, you'll hear the raindrops from the rain in the background. Let's see how this works.

A day later (Friday) the ocean looked like a lake again and it delighted us with a very nice looking sunrise. The weekend was again very peaceful and surprisingly warm. But of course, part of it I was stuck inside the house doing the painting in preparation for the next home improvement project which will get started after the Thanksgiving weekend, more about that later.

Again there was a beautiful sunset looking West over the Bogue Inlet Pier from our house. That's one nice thing about Emerald Isle. The island runs pretty much East-West and during the winter months we get to see both the sunrises and the sunsets.

I got to go now, there is a lot of commotion on the beach again. Maybe there will be a bluefish on our Thanksgiving table. Definitely something to be very thankful about.