Pflueger Family Reunion/Early Thanksgiving

When we found out that Mary Ann had managed to get a few days off work and was coming to the beach for a long weekend, we decided it would be a great time to get the family together...and since we were scheduled to be there until a week before Thanksgiving, why not just have our celebration there?

So, fortunately, Bill and Alisa were able to clear their calendars and joined us for a few days of fun.  We don't get to see them often enough.

We enjoyed a Sunday brunch at The Tin Top and everyone enjoyed crab omelettes, eggs benedict, etc.   Happy Thanksgiving to Us!   We enjoyed hikes through the Bon Secour Refuge with Bill and Alisa, and Lucy and Sable enjoyed frolicking on the beach. 

Beach Trip

Jan and I drove down to the beaches at Fort Morgan, Alabama earlier this week, along with two of our favorite traveling companions, my mother and  Lucy (our dog). 


Mom on the beach!

It has been an eventful, in a bad way, year for Mom.  Diagnosed in January with non-Hodgkins lymphoma she has undergone several rounds of chemo and radiation treatments.  Thankfully, the treatments have been successful and, although weak, she felt good enough to start what we hope will be a month's visit here. 

On Sunday we met up with friends from Florence that were staying in Orange Beach, at First Presbyterian Church in Foley.  Van Edington, the former pastor at Sheffield is serving as interim minister.  It was great to see Van and Carol, his wife.

Later that afternoon, while walking Lucy, Jan and I discovered this old ship that had washed ashore earlier this year after a hurricane.  It's a little over a mile from our house on Fort Morgan beach.   We came home and googled it and found lots of controversy over what era the ship was from.  It was over 100 feet long.  The wooden hull was pretty much intact.