Greetings and Salutations! Actually I greeted yesterday...but just before I pressed the submit key.. the electricity went off and was off for 2 hours! A squirrel got into the transformer!!! But.. I lost a bunch.. so will start all over! AAARGH!
Re PIX from Bamboo Ben:

4. the house was taken from low tide point of view.. it is very weathered because of constant spray from full moon high tides. The lower windows are etched with salt. The flotsum and jetsum on the beach is the high tide mark, and shows the difference between the beaches of today.. and yesteryore! All boats, ships, etc., just threw everyhting into the sea.. garbage, which the fish ate, that crate was probably a produce crate for celery or lettuce, hatch covers that were washed over in the storms, and on a nd on. No wonder Daddy was able to make a living Beach combing! Remmember .. there was no plastic at that time!

#5. That is Flo and Daddy with the big board that was from our own beach! Mother, Ben's mom,Ba, and Mare in back ground. Our home would be at the very end of pix in background.
#6. From this pix you get an idea of how long the Cove was, with the house at one end, and the outside terrazo dance floor at the other! The entry way was huge, heavy gates made of 2X6's. One day, when it was very rainey and stormy, I was about 15, and was riding my bicycle home from school. Our home was at the bottom of a 250' cliff, and as I was riding down the road, my hand brakes gave out due to the mud and rain. I was probably going 30mph, when I hit the bottom and had to decide in 2 seconds whether to go off the road into tons of mud at the side.. or.. hit the big gates and hope that the chain wasn't around them! Well! Being adventurous at all times! I hit the gate.. they flew open, I flew through, and they banged back again right behind me!
#7. The huge mast had washed up on our beach before we moved there.. and it stayed for our "journey". I beleive this was a photo op for American Mg. from rt: Ba, Bungy, Mare, Flo, Mohter (alias Goerge Malcome), and Eli.
#8 (last); from rt: Flo, Daddy, Bungy, Ba, Mother, Mare.. in front yard of house. We always had all kinds of interesting things just lying aroudn waiting for the next deccorarting job.. like the ship's wheel! In our front yard we had an old dingy filled with fish floats. Our front door was a row boat set on end with the bottom knowcke dout. Our doorbell was a zither, which soem gusets even tried to play! Mare used to paint Renoirs on the bottom panels.. in fact she painted Gaugins on the walls of our bathroom, too!
Hope this gets off this time! Muaruru! Auntie Bungy