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Andrea’s (37th!!!) birthday party @ Phases Restaurant & Bar
(That’s a Devil Ducky in a little tub that we gave her.)

I’m dead meat when he sees this…

Jerry at my PC setup area - The little, teeny, tiny yellow chair helps keep visitors humble!

A little bit o’ T-Bug, Zack & Renisha at Lunch w/ Granny @ Mayflower (a celebrated event)

Margie & SAM at Lunch w/ Granny @ Mayflower

Zane, SAM, Granny, Margie, Zack & Renisha at Lunch w/ Granny @ Mayflower

SAM & Daddy Bob in his store

T-Bug in a park in Aycock Historical District - We had helped Brad with a neighborhood clean-up project

Daniel, Jerry, Jennifer, Brad & SAM @ Boba House

• Green Queen Bingo - February 13th, 2004
• Michael’s 50th Birthday
• Miscellaneous Snapshots - February 2004
• Carolina Boxer Rescue’s 2003 Picnic
• Butterflies in the Back Yard - Fall 2003
• Thanksgiving 2003
• Our 5th Anniversary & Christmas 2003 Party
• Christmas 2003
• New Mexico - New Year’s 2004
• Greg and The Girls - December 2003
• The Kids in Snow - January 2004
• Lunch with Granny @ Mayflower - March 2004

I remember going to the beach with Granny and Granddaddy. Granddaddy (or I) had caught a small ghost crab and I was keeping it in a disposable cup while we were driving to the hotel from the beach. Granddaddy was driving and Granny was in the front seat. I was in the back seat hanging over the front seat, holding the cup. I dropped the cup in the front seat and the crab escaped. Oh man! The fortitude Granny must have had that day! We never did find the crab.

On the same trip (I think), we stopped at a bridge where a river (Cape Fear, I think) emptied into the ocean. At the shore/bank, we found a huge colony of fiddler crabs. Granddaddy used his pocketknife to dig several of them out of their burrows (more than a dozen) and we put them in a small Styrofoam cooler, along with some sand, shells and driftwood. They made it home. We set up a short, wide fishbowl for them and I kept them in my room. I had them for a long time and they were a really cool thing for a young boy to have. However, my poor mother had to deal with the stench!