Memorial Weekend 2016

Memorial weekend was a day and a half of beautiful warm sunny weather and a day and a half of nice steady rainy weather.  Time for swimming and canoeing - time for indoor games and reading.  Grandma and Grandpa B. had planned the meals and readied the cottage.  Peter, Jessica, James(almost 9) and Naomi (almost 5) came Saturday early afternoon and left on Monday late afternoon in the rain!  We saw eagle, dolphins, two hummingbirds, blue heron and a new bird -- brown creeper.
It was a wonderful relaxing fun weekend.

Sunrise - God's signature!

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Water clear, cold and great for the first dip of the season.

Mom helps build best Star Wars castle!

Naya "fish"- the first in the water.

Best place in the world to read.



Boys Canoe Team

 Indoor Hotdog Roast


Indoor Rainy Day coloring of the whole family



The best Grandkids in the world!

Good-bye until next time!

bird big and little

"The eagle" showed up about three times, landing on the pine branch / fork. One breakfast was fresh fish. In addition, the blue heron - also the much smaller green (has some red coloring) heron. Most fun, the tiny bird at the decaying and split open wild cherry. There are actually two (mates), very small - act similar to a nuthatch. The summer hummingbirds not yet arrived. One comes briefly to the sugar water feeder, then swiftly back to the tall sweet gum tree in the sanctuary strip of wild growth. We just returned from a full week at the Perch.

the stipple ceiling

When I mentioned Elizabeth S. going to clean on Tuesday could examine the ceiling (reported splitting open) and evaluate need to repair (my concern is that the roof may be the actual problem), spouse reported "Oh, Del has fixed that already" (reported by Cricket C.)

Earth coordinates (global)

near W76 degrees 17'6" (seventeen minutes 6 seconds)
south of
N 37 degrees 30'54"
above (north of)
N 37 degrees 30' 18"

use Google Earth to take a look.

Gwynn's Island papers 14 pages

This document is available to family members. Fourteen pages show mostly the first decade, beginning 1957 and up through 1966. After that, the next decade and then the third decade (1980's) essentially up through that year when Chee-Chee, age 82, turned over management to daughter Beth and son-in-love Bob, two years after the death of Grandpa Doc (Pirkle).

where the heron (blue heron)

in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,

I go and lie down where the wood drake

rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. "The Peace of Wild Things," Wendell Berry (thanks to poet and writer Sherri)

file Folders of many decades

Gwynn	Island 2015
2016 Gwynn plumber
2015 Gwynn
2015 h Gwynn All Risks
2014 Gwynn
2012 Gwynn Housing
2012 h Gwynn
2011 Gwynn Housing
2010 Gwynn Housing
2009 Gwynn insurance TBR
2009 June 3 Nichols jetty
2008 Gwynn Housing
2008 Gwynn Housing
2008 Gwynn Insurance
2007 Summer cottage schedule
2007 Steve Pugh		$26,400		rip-rap
2007 Steve Pugh August 1		$625		Permit fee
2007 construct flyover	SBH Construction	$1,375	Ph 804 725-5262
2007 March 12 adjacent property Baker
2006 Gwynn Housing
2006 Caretaking and cottage Schedule
2006 Gwynn Verizon
2006 Jetty	R&W Marine	$7,995	Ph 804 725-7516
2005 Gwynn Housing
2005 Gwynn Insurance
2004 Gwynn Housing
2004 cottage Finance Receipts begin '08
2003 Gwynn Housing
2003 October Isabel after hurricane
2001 Chevy Chase Gwynn
2000 housing Gwynn's Island
2000 Insurance for Cottage
2000 March 6 Revocable Trust
2000 March 6 Buying Gwynn purchase
1999 Gwynn Beth's letter to 4
1999 Chevy Chase Gwynn's Island account
1998 Gwynn's Island Finances spreadsheets
1998 Prof Conferences Gwynn
1998 Gwynn Virginia Power
1998 December 12 reassessment		$101,900
1998 December Estate refund	Carl Pirkle
1998 September maintenance To Do
1998 August 18 Nichols Wetlands Board
1998 July 5 Internment Service Chee-Chee
1997 November 2 Memorial Service
1997 June value of Assets
1997 Chesapeake Bay Foundation
1996 Birthday 23 April wish	Promoting Enduring Peace
1994 Pirkle Family reunion 90th Chee-Chee
1992 Gwynn's Island Porch building 21' x 14'
1992 Gwynn's Island Information photos '98
1991 Will & Durable Power of Attorney	for Health Care
1986 February 5 Gwynn SURVEY survey	Dawson, Phillips, Dischinger			green
1963 Gwynn records Historical				yellow