Kiptopeke State Park, Cape Charles, Virginia
And Joseph took both of them, Ephraim on his right toward Israel’s left hand and Manasseh on his left toward Israel’s right hand, and brought them close to him. But Israel reached out his right hand and put it on Ephraim’s head, though he was the younger, and crossing his arms, he put his left hand on Manasseh’s head, even though Manasseh was the firstborn. ~ Genesis 48:13-14 Reversal of fortune again in this family. Jacob and Esau were reversed in birth order as ordained by God Himself. Judah, although the 4th born, has assumed leadership of the family. And now, Jacob (aka Israel because God re-named him) has reversed the birth order blessings for Joseph’s two sons. I’m certain God has everything to do with this, even though Scripture doesn’t tell us that. In much later times, Scripture teaches us that it’s important to God that the first fruits of everything be set aside for Him, and that included people. But for now, it’s more important that Israel’s family continue the process of becoming a people belonging to God Himself.
Early this morning, we got up, put the kayak in the Jeep and drove to the beach where we intended to kayak around the concrete ships. Unfortunately, just as we feared, the water was just too choppy for us because of the prevailing 11-12mph winds. Drat! Drat! And double drat!!! We have two more mornings available. Sure hope one of them is good.
See all the waves – all the way to the ships.
That’s why we can’t go out today. : (
After spending the morning working on posts and researching stuff, we drove to Cape Charles just up the street. Our first stop was the museum.
It was small, but held some interesting things. It was originally a power house for the entire town with a generator still in place. You should’ve seen Blaine’s eyes light up when the woman manning the place said she could turn it on! He was so excited, but a little disappointed when it became apparent that it wasn’t going to run at full speed. They have just enough to see how it worked. Still, it was a nice touch and Blaine said whomever set it up did a really fine job.
There were several other things in there too, like information about a meteor that crashed into the area some millions of years ago creating the Chesapeake Bay. Pretty interesting stuff!
It smelled nice!
And a few train cars outside.
We continued driving down the road until we reached the historic district, where we walked around and dodged people. It’s a nice little district of the town with shops and restaurants lining the street.
Time for a short break from the heat. The best way to do that? Ice Cream!! The place everyone apparently raves over was closed today, so we settled for second best. It too was homemade, but it was flavored custard instead. With only a few flavors to choose from, we both ended up with chocolate raspberry truffle. Unfortunately, there was little raspberry flavor and no truffles (chocolate syrup instead). But it tasted good and was just what we needed to cool down. 😊
Blaine had picked up a map from the museum that described a few of the historic homes, etc. so we took a sandal-melting walk around the neighborhood. Two of the homes I took pictures of were actually Sears pre-fab homes! We’re guessing that they’ve been added on to, but we can’t say for certain.
We can’t remember which one, but one of these Sears homes was for sale – $795,000 (same square footage and number of bedrooms as ours was) – – and that’s recently reduced by $34,000!
There was excitement once again in our little cul-de-sac, as people on sites across from us were apparently one site off. The Ranger showed up and had a long conversation with them about why they had to move over (we’re assuming) – and one’s been set up since yesterday! Seems like they’re together, so there was some extra help, which is good. Meanwhile, the people who are supposed to be there are waiting down the street.
The trailer was directly across the street from us.
Turns out, after all that, they only stayed overnight!
Aren’t cul-de-sacs supposed to be quiet places to live?
At least my phone call yesterday seems to have made a difference. The people put their puppy inside while they were gone today, and when they came back and went to the beach, they took her with them. 😊
Making me – and Blaine – happy campers!