Busy, Busy

I have been very busy lately. I will catch up down the road!!!

Google Earth

Today I downloaded Google Earth. What a cool website! Check it out for yourself. Just Google it!!!

Wright Brother's Memorial

Orville & Wilber Wright

(Photos courtesy of Free Stock Photos and Google Images)

For all the years I have lived on the Outer Banks, I've only visited the Wright Brother's Memorial once. It was on December 17, 2000 for the 97th anniversary celebration of the first flight featuring a "fly over."

On a beautiful, cool day, we watched as several aircraft flew overhead. Far off in the distance I saw something that looked rather odd. As it neared, I was trying to decipher just exactly what type of plane it was. Suddenly it was very close! "Wow," I said. "It's the Stealth Bomber!" It was flying so low and directly overhead, it felt for a second as though I could reach up and touch it. What a great memory!

Now that I am living on the Outer Banks again, I plan on visiting the memorial with my grandson quite often.

While searching for Wright Brother's photos I came across three really good websites if you are interested in the Outer Banks area and all it has to offer.

www.ob.com/wrightbrothers/

www.nps.gov/wrbr/

www.firstflight.org./

I Won!!!

I won $100 in an instant win sweepstakes!!! I am an avid sweeper. I got hooked on online sweepstakes about two years ago. I don't enter every single day, but I do enter quite often. There are many sites online that showcase the latest sweeps. Some sites will even keep track of the sweeps you have entered. Be careful not to use an auto entry software offered on the net. Companies want you to do the keystrokes yourself, not an automated site. You could literally spend 24/7 entering, however I try to limit it to sweeps that offer $10,000 and up. (I won the $100 in a $10,000 grand prize sweeps that also has a daily instant giveaway of various amounts.) I only enter cash sweeps. If you enter to win a vehicle or any other merchandise, be prepared to pay the taxes. A cash sweeps is much easier to pay the tax as you can use part of the prize for that purpose. It's great fun!

I use www.cashnet.com.

Sledding Outer Banks Style!

This is how you go sledding when there's not a hill in sight!!! This was a treat as it rarely snows in this neck of the woods.

Outer Banks Web Cams

I found a website with some great webcams of the Outer Banks. Enjoy!

http://www.visitob.com/outer_banks/trip/outer_banks_webcams.htm#

Corolla and Ponies

I found a great website today for the Outer Banks: http://www.outerbanksguidebook.com/ It's a complete A to Z guide of anything you want to know about this area.

From the guidebook: The Outer Banks of North Carolina is one of very few places in America where wild horses still roam free, surviving in this once remote coastal environment. Descended from Spanish stock which arrived over 400 years ago, these hardy, tenacious horses have lived here since the earliest explorers and shipwrecks. In previous centuries there were thousands of these horses roaming the full length of the Outer Banks, from Shackleford Banks, all along Core Banks, Ocracoke, Hatteras, and on northward beyond Corolla on Currituck Banks. With the protected status now afforded to them, they should remain free to live as their ancestors have for centuries. They continue to capture the imagination of many people, especially horse-lovers.

Currituck Beach Lighthouse (located in Corolla) was the third of three lighthouses built under the skilled supervision of Dexter Stetson, who was construction foreman for the Cape Hatteras and Bodie Island lighthouses as well. As fate would have it, construction on Currituck Beach Lighthouse had only begun the year Cape Lookout, Cape Hatteras and Bodie Island received their black and white markings. So Currituck was spared from the painters brush, and stands today as bare red brick. But it's this very distinction that not only lets us see what the others once looked like, but allows the architectural dignity and detail of this brick marvel to be appreciated.