10 Cuttin Sage

I so love it when houses have names.  BUT I don’t care for corny names like “Fantasea”, “Seaduction”, or "Vitamin Sea”.  I’d like to find some of those beach house owners and ask “can you not think of anything more creative then ‘Island Daze’ or ‘Reel Lucky' or 'Seas the Moment’?  Is this all you can come up with for your real estate business venture????” We’ve discussed changing the name of 10 Cuttin Sage. I mean, the name of the house is it’s address and that’s a little boring.  Here’s what we’ve come up with so far: Are We There Yet? Hull of a House Sandy Cheeks Bodo’s Retreat (a problem because Bodo, the Golden Retriever is not going back to the beach ever again) Salmon Again? The Tackle Box Obviously, we can’t come up with anything better than anyone else. I thought of the name “Dove Cottage” because mourning doves have a special significance for me. There is a dove that has nested outside my bedroom window for the past two springs. I love to hear her mel

We arrived back home from Ocracoke this past Saturday night after a week there with our family of 4, 2 friends of our daughters, and Bodo, the Golden Retriever.  I had planned to update this blog while I was there, but the thought of burying my head in a computer screen, even for a few minutes a day, seemed unacceptable to me. My eyes were constantly drawn to the beautiful views outside in the marsh and canal off our dock, and I didn’t want to miss a thing! We had a mama duck with 7 ducklings swimming up and down the canal past our dock all week. Sometimes we would pass them waddling in a yard up the street on our way to the village. They were so cute. The geese were prevalent last week, as were white herons. While kayaking through the canals, we approached a huge heron who allowed us to get about 3 feet from him, dove his elegant neck into the water to catch a fish, then took off in a flutter and flurry of wings into the trees by the canal. He really was not afraid. The weathe