We can’t wait to celebrate our special day over the Labor Day weekend with you! Bryson City, NC nestled in the Smokey Mts

Once upon a time- as most fairy tales start, in the Red Neck Riviera, there came along a little zephyr, an “An act of God,”. In the meteorological world, a Cat 5 Hurricane, which we have all come to know as Hurricane Michael, who blew through our little coastal town on the now infamous day of 10-10-2018. Jean narrowly escaped the ravages of the ¥#£%€ storm under the advice of little brother Steve to EVACUATE EVACUATE EVACUATE! And so she did, to his house in Dunedin! Steve, meanwhile sheltered in place at his newly constructed home in Calloway. Immediately after the storm subsided, leaving mass destruction in its wake, his job as city engineer was tasked to work long 16 hour days to clear debris off roadways & reestablish public utilities in the PC area. Hospitals, homes & the city was left in ruins! Debris piled 15 feet high along roadsides! Baby brother Steve C and friend Dave spent 3 days in Jean’s Refugee camp house, with no power, outdoor 5 gallon-buckets for toilets, solar heated water for showers, clearing over 60 trees that fell & obscured the house from street view & hid the water too. Then Steve D showed up with a truck full of tools, a wheelbarrow & his dog Sam to help clean up the remaining debris. And - as the saying goes - “The rest is history!” Or something like that! The city was pretty much destroyed- along with many people’s lives, homes, & livelihoods. Steve’s job working to repair the city in those post Hurricane days made it VERY CLEAR - it was time to go! We had our first “ official real” date on Valentine’s Day. And then, off he went! To the far-away western prairie town of Altus, OK where he returned to his roots and original love - flying. Now a flight instructor in the Boeing-sponsored C-17 simulator, teaching young pilots how to fly a $340 million dollar jet - the most flexible cargo aircraft in the USAF fleet! Jean took many trips out to sunny, windy OK, & finally moved in Sept 2020 & the REAL life adventure began! Currently working part time, as Clinic Chief of the Jackson County Memorial Hospital Employee Clinic, seeing daily sick call for the 800 employees and their families, doing all other ACUTE visits, running the