Lunch With Eve

Chicamacomico Lifesaving Station by Maureen Brady

Vacation Day 14

Thursday, October 9, 2008

Sorry I haven't posted lately .... I've been suffering from a relentless, seemingly never-ending cold. It started Thanksgiving morning, and has waxed and waned since. Sunday night I was very nearly to the point of taking a quick trip to the ER for a breathing treatment, but felt too awful to get out of bed. Fever, chills, muscle aches, constant coughing & sneezing, chest congestion, expiratory wheezing .... and I'm not sure what the hell is coming out of my nose when I blow it. Since my bout with pneumonia a few years ago, I'm extremely leery whenever I get just the sniffles. Hence, my laying low the past few days.

Dawn & I were heading up to Avon, today, to meet up with Eve for lunch. Eve and her husband, Pete, own The Yellowhouse Gallery in Nags Head. Eve would be bringing along 2 pieces of art work that would soon be hanging in my home ..... first, the water color of Chicamacomico Lifesaving Station that I commissioned by Maureen Brady (aka Salvo) and second, a beautiful driftwood photograph by Eve. Both pieces were matted & framed by Pete, who does incredible work! If you ever need any framing done, I highly recommend him.

We met at the Atlantic Coast Café, where I had a most unusual sandwich .... a crabcake reuben. I love crabcakes and I love reubens ..... now, I love crabcake reubens. Fat chance of getting one of those here in Iowa. (Although, there's a place in East Moline that serves wonderful reubens on raisin bread!) As usual, I ordered unsweetened iced tea with my meal, and as usual I was served that sweet, syrupy glop that has, undoubtedly, caused many diabetic comas. (Speaking of which, I see Sunny von Bulow died.)

Eve, Dawn and I had a lovely long chat over lunch. Eve emanates a tangible joie de vivre the very moment you meet her. Like so many of my Outer Banks friends, I met Eve via the OBC. The first we met face-to-face, I was pulling into the parking lot of The Yellowhouse Gallery as she was walking from the framing shop. The instant she saw my license tag, a huge smile lit her face and she greeted me with a hug and the exclamation, "Y!" (YMINIowa is my nom de plume on the OBC.) With that smile and hug, Eve made a new friend - ME!

As with Dawn, I had helped Eve with her family history. Much to my delight (and, I'm sure her's), we learned that she was a direct descendant of the movers and shakers of the 17th & 18th centuries in the new Colonies of America. One "grandfather" had been a Colonial Governor of Virginia in 1655. Another was a member of the first Provincial Congress, thus leading the revolt which resulted in the independence of the Colonies. The names Lee, Harrison, Monroe, FitzHugh, Taliafero, Diggs, Churchill, Carter, Battaile run through her family tree. Eve's family has been, by far, one of the most interesting families that I've researched.

Wedding Announcement of Eve's Great Great Great Great Great Grandparents

The Virginia Gazette; Friday, August 10, 1739: