BS: Moving to (coastal) North Carolina

Subject: BS: Moving to (coastal) North Carolina
From: CarolC
Date: 09 Feb 06 - 11:09 AM

We're moving on Saturday, to beautiful coastal North Carolina. I am very pleased that I will be able to count myself amongst the North Carolina 'catter contingent. North Carolina is a wonderful state with a lot to offer.

We will be making a couple of trips over three or four weeks, and at this point I don't know when we will be getting internet at our new location. So after Friday, if I'm not here for a while, I'll see you guys on the other side of the move!

Subject: RE: BS: Moving to (coastal) North Carolina
From: wysiwyg
Date: 09 Feb 06 - 11:12 AM

Carol & Jack,

Best wishes for all this entails!

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Moving to (coastal) North Carolina
From: Janie
Date: 09 Feb 06 - 11:39 AM

Welcome to the Tarheel State! What part of the coast?

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: Moving to (coastal) North Carolina
From: Amos
Date: 09 Feb 06 - 11:43 AM

Good luck, CC!! It will put you in easy reach of the Getaway!


A

Subject: RE: BS: Moving to (coastal) North Carolina
From: CarolC
Date: 09 Feb 06 - 11:45 AM

Thanks guys!

Wilmington, Janie. We like it there a lot.

Subject: RE: BS: Moving to (coastal) North Carolina
From: Janie
Date: 09 Feb 06 - 12:08 PM

Nice area. And it is only about 2 1/2 hours from Dani & I. We expect some visiting back and forth, you know!

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: Moving to (coastal) North Carolina
From: gnu
Date: 09 Feb 06 - 01:43 PM

CC. Odd that you would pick a location on the coast... hehehe. Good luck with it all. Moving's a bitch. Say hi to Rob for me.

g

Subject: RE: BS: Moving to (coastal) North Carolina
From: CarolC
Date: 09 Feb 06 - 01:57 PM

Visiting back and forth is definitely in order, Janie. You live in a very beautiful part of the state as well (and of course, we'll have the beach).

gnu, perhaps a visit from you as well? We expect to have a guest room.

Subject: RE: BS: Moving to (coastal) North Carolina
From: tarheel
Date: 09 Feb 06 - 02:32 PM

Welcome to the Tarheel state,carol...peg and i spent the Thanksgiving holidays in Wilmington...great place and good folks,too!
a little over 3 hours from us...
tar...

Subject: RE: BS: Moving to (coastal) North Carolina
From: CarolC
Date: 09 Feb 06 - 06:43 PM

Thanks, tarheel. I agree about Wilmington.

Subject: RE: BS: Moving to (coastal) North Carolina
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 Feb 06 - 06:46 PM

I wish you both the best on your move, and a joyful residence in North Carolina. It's a great place to be.

Subject: RE: BS: Moving to (coastal) North Carolina
From: Metchosin
Date: 09 Feb 06 - 08:49 PM

All the best with the move, Carol, I wish you both well. Take care.

Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Moving to (coastal) North Carolina
From: Arkie
Date: 09 Feb 06 - 09:26 PM

Have to say I envy you.   During my three years of graduate study I spent summers in various parts of North Carolina and the summer at Arapaho and Harker's Island was really special.   Also vacationed at Nags Head and Okracoke ages ago and loved it.

Subject: RE: BS: Moving to (coastal) North Carolina
From: Bobert
Date: 09 Feb 06 - 09:29 PM

Eastern Carolina, heh, CarolC... The P-Vine lived there fir a while when she was in college (East Carolina) and swears that's where she leatrned to cook... And, boy, she can cook (no jokes...)... She sasy that Parker's BBQ in Wilson has the best BBQ in N.C...

Must be purdy good 'cause we attended a fancy wedding up in N.Va. a couple years ago and they had sent someone all the way down to Parker's to bring back the food for the cloth napkin reception...

Hope you and JtS like it there... Hey, close to the shore.... Lotta good sailing there... Keep yer accordian in the case, howver, 'cause salt air ain't good for instruments of any flavor...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Moving to (coastal) North Carolina
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Feb 06 - 11:21 PM

Carol,

I'm signed in as a guest, but this is me, Johnne. Good luck to you and Rob on the move. Moving can be a pain, but this is gonna be so exciting. Moving into your own home, in a new state. And NC is such a beautiful place to be.

Subject: RE: BS: Moving to (coastal) North Carolina
From: jimmyt
Date: 09 Feb 06 - 11:31 PM

Carol. I am sorry to lose you and Jack from this part of the south but next time I am in WIlmington, I will keep on the lookout every time I pass a Waffle House to see if you are playing in the parking lot!   jimmyt

Subject: RE: BS: Moving to (coastal) North Carolina
From: CarolC
Date: 10 Feb 06 - 12:08 AM

Well now. Thanks so much everyone!

You all better stop in for a visit if you're ever in the area, ok?

Subject: RE: BS: Moving to (coastal) North Carolina
From: NH Dave
Date: 10 Feb 06 - 12:46 AM

I spent several years just a bit inland.   

    Great people, good climate, tad warm in the summer, and summer starts in mid April.

    Dave

Subject: RE: BS: Moving to (coastal) North Carolina
From: GUEST,in Mississippi
Date: 10 Feb 06 - 10:31 AM

and get the flood insurance, cause when the hurricane comes and washes your place away, it won't be covered by 'hurricane insurance'.

Subject: RE: BS: Moving to (coastal) North Carolina
From: tarheel
Date: 10 Feb 06 - 07:58 PM

Janie,what part of the TARHEEL state do you live?

rural hall,near windston-salem,for me...
tar

Subject: RE: BS: Moving to (coastal) North Carolina
From: Janie
Date: 10 Feb 06 - 08:08 PM

Hillsborough, tarheel.

Not that far from you.

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: Moving to (coastal) North Carolina
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Feb 06 - 09:13 PM

moving away from florabama, huh buddy? nc sounds like heaven except for the hurricanes. I'm pretty sick of them...riverboat annie

Subject: RE: BS: Moving to (coastal) North Carolina
From: JennieG
Date: 10 Feb 06 - 09:26 PM

A question from an ignorant Aussie:
Why is it called the Tarheel State? What's a tarheel?

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: Moving to (coastal) North Carolina
From: Janie
Date: 10 Feb 06 - 10:00 PM

The origins of 'tarheel' are not exactly known, but North Carolina was noted for its production of pine pitch (tar) and turpentine. During the Civil War the term became associated with the tenacity (spelling?) of the North Carolina Confederate troups.

This is a link with a little more detail. If you search around some you get different stories, but they all seem to run along similar lines.

OK. Now this is a Folklore thread.

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: Moving to (coastal) North Carolina
From: Little Hawk
Date: 10 Feb 06 - 11:10 PM

Summer in mid-April sounds good to me.

Subject: RE: BS: Moving to (coastal) North Carolina
From: tarheel
Date: 11 Feb 06 - 09:38 AM

the "tarheel" story or legend, as told on the state maps tell a version that during the civil war here,north carolina was a main producer of tar and turpenitine...and it seems that some Nothern Regiment was chasing some Southern Rebels from North Carolina,and it was obviuos that the Rebels were getting away....
one of the Northern soldiers yelled out,"put some tar on their heels to slow threm down!"...and later when the Southern Commander General Lee, heard about this encounter he replied, "=Well,God Bless them Tarheels!"
it may have happened...maybe not...but we "tarheels" love to tell it!
so hence the nick name..."tarheel"
tar

Subject: RE: BS: Moving to (coastal) North Carolina
From: JennieG
Date: 11 Feb 06 - 07:23 PM

Thank you, that makes it clear! Aussie states have nicknames and legends surrounding them too. Carol - best wishes in your new home.

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: Moving to (coastal) North Carolina
From: Hrothgar
Date: 12 Feb 06 - 03:53 AM

Keep your head dow, Carol. If they shot Stonewall Jackson, what might they do to you?

Subject: RE: BS: Moving to (coastal) North Carolina
From: CarolC
Date: 14 Feb 06 - 02:37 PM

We're here!

We love it here, and the move has gone smoothly (so far... still another load to move). We closed on our new house yesterday and spent our first night in it last night. We love the house. Haven't been to the beach yet, but that will have to wait until we have more time.

I'll get back online when I can, but I don't know when that will be.

Thanks for the heads up Guest,10 Feb 06 - 09:13 PM, but we were living in a hurricane zone in Alabama, with tornadoes, and without the benefit of the ocean nearby. Here, we probably won't get the tornadoes, and we're supposed to be up too high for any flooding. The closest coastline is about ten miles from where we live.

Thanks everybody. I'll check back when I can.

Subject: RE: BS: Moving to (coastal) North Carolina
From: CarolC
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 01:38 AM

We're back in Alabama for a few days, getting the last of our stuff and closing out accounts, etc.

The house is great, as is the neighborhood. It's only a few blocks from the center of town, but it's surrounded by rivers, creeks, a cemetary, and some open fields with railroad tracks, so it's almost like living in an intimate little neighborhood out in the country. Our back yard is surrounded by an impenetrable jungle of trees, bushes and prickly vines, so when I look our our kitchen and bedroom windows, all I see is a wall of green.

We couldn't ask for better neighbors. Because it's a small and somewhat isolated neighborhood (middle middle income range... good, solid, hard working people like teachers, small business entrepreneurs, law enforcement... people like that), the people in the neighborhood really look out for one another. I really like that.

Interestingly, as far as we know, we're the first non-African American family to live, not only in that neighborhood, but also in that part of town. People are still doing double-takes when they see us. I expect that will change eventually, but we have been welcomed very warmly to the neighborhood, and we feel very fortunate to be living there.

We've only been back in Alabama for a few hours, and I miss Wilmington (and our house) already.

Here's a picture of the house...

http://community.webshots.com/photo/541279686/1541498752034261223mEVQvG

Subject: RE: BS: Moving to (coastal) North Carolina
From: gnu
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 08:11 AM

Glad to hear things are going well, CC. Say hi to Mister for me.

Subject: RE: BS: Moving to (coastal) North Carolina
From: SINSULL
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 08:29 AM

Good for you, Carol. North Carolina was on my list when I looked to leave NYC. It's a beautiful state, has the ocean, friendly people, everything really.
Enjoy!
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: Moving to (coastal) North Carolina
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 08:37 AM

Nice little place! Good porch for sittin' & rockin'. I like a yard & trees. Hope the neighbors appreciate the accordian! ☺

(You'll probably be offered stuff to eat that's not on your diet, Carol...)

Subject: RE: BS: Moving to (coastal) North Carolina
From: CarolC
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 09:34 AM

I haven't mentioned the accordion yet. Maybe I'll get lucky and the neighborhood will be full of accordion players.

No doubt about the food, Bill, but that happens to me pretty much everywhere I go. JtS, on the other hand, loves good Southern home cooking. He says it reminds him of the food he grew up on in Newfoundland.

Subject: RE: BS: Moving to (coastal) North Carolina
From: Janie
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 10:02 AM

Looks great Carol! I was about to warn you about the mosquitos--but where you were in Alabama grew some real healthy bugs. I expect you already have mosquito strategies that will tranfer quite nicely!

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: Moving to (coastal) North Carolina
From: CarolC
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 05:08 PM

Yes I do, Janie. I intend to shut the windows and doors and turn on the air conditioner.

;-)

I also have a portable screen room that might get some use if we want to sit outside when the mosquitoes are bad.