This little blog, in which I used to take great pleasure and care with, will just lay here mostly dormant until I can disengage from this stupid church committee. I'll say no more about it but it is making me lose my religion.
The news here is really Duncan's -- he's thrown himself in with the Coast Guard Auxiliary and is now consumed with classes and meetings and reading navigational charts and -- amazingly enough -- cooking!
They offer, and he attended, an Auxiliary Chef course back in February, and now he is a USCG Auxiliary Food Service Specialist. He went down to Clearwater Florida with another fellow, Joe. and they had a great time together. They are like the grumpy old men, -- Joe is the sunny one and Duncan is the curmudgeon. But now they are cooking buddies and work some weekends in the galley at the Coast Guard station here in Charleston which is down on The Battery -- and a couple of times they have gone out on working cutters for 3 - 4 day stints. Duncan can actually take up to 45 days a year as "military leave" from his job to do this. He is a happy boy.
Joe is a Public Affairs guy and travels with camera -- so all of these pics are thanks to him.
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| Here they go, off on a 4-day assignment. |
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| Here's how their days started. |
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| Getting Busy |
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| This is what they came for. |
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| Mission Accomplished |
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Here are some of the boat's crew. Duncan and Joe were cooking for about 15 all together. All these young guys called Duncan and Joe the FOFs -- Funny Old Farts -- so I take it everyone had a pretty good time.
2 comments:
Sandy, Thank you for sharing this information about Dee's recently acquired interests. It sounds like a wonderful way to meet new folks, learn new skills, and just have a great time. Your blog is precious and so well done. This is the first time I have seen it. My book club read a book that sounds like might be in the same genre as Daughters of the Dust. It is called Someone Knows my name. Good book. You might enjoy it. We also read one by Anna Quindland and I think it was Every Last One. Please share your blog again. Gail H.
Yours is the only blog I read! Sounds like Duncan is in his element!
I'm now the proud ma of two really cute, really active, kittens! Marsh and Yum--lynx pt. siamese. They're truly beautiful, but a handful! Will send pictures soon. Doris
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