Charley and Heidi live in Raleigh, NC, and have been here for over 10 years.

Charley enjoys working for John Montgomery Violins, making and restoring violins, violas and cellos.  Here are some instruments Charley has made.  Another talent Charley has is cooking, and his jambalaya recipe is always a big hit at parties.  He enjoys playing old-time music with some friends on a regular basis, and they're so good they get asked to play gigs now and then.  You can check them out at the Southern String Band's website.

After Heidi left Saint Mary's School as their full time technology coordinator, she struck out on her own in 2001 and has been a computer consultant ever since.  She enjoys the variety in her schedule, and is much happier helping multiple clients.  Heidi keeps busy with her music, too, singing on Thursday mornings with her SSA choral group, the Cardinal Singers, and various evenings with friends, singing folk-rock and playing guitar.

We both love to go to tropical locations for our vacations, and have enjoyed St. John (USVI) for years.  We went there on our honeymoon in 1997, and have been going back almost every year since!  We have been to other places -- we went to the Abacos in the Bahamas in 2003, and stayed at a really cool efficiency motel called the Lofty Fig.  In 2005 we decided to go to Aruba.  Windsurfing is king there, and they do have beautiful beaches.  And in 2008 we met up with Miles and Bonnie and went to Great Exuma in the Bahamas.

In addition, we like to take motorcycle trips, and rode the bikes to the mountains in September of 2005.  That was a lot of fun, and certainly our longest ride so far.  An update -- Heidi moved up to a Kawasaki Vulcan 900 (Fall 2009), and Charley has moved up to a Yamaha VStar 950 (March 2010).  In April 2010 we had a wonderful ride to Oriental, NC, near the coast.

Heidi's favorite place (besides beautiful tropical islands?) is Camp Greystone, where she spent over 20 summers as a camper and counselor, and has been recently going back to be a counselor at Jr. Camp.  It was also the site of our wedding in September 1997, as you see in one of our miscellaneous photos.

In December of 2005 we decided to put an addition on our house, as it was feeling cramped (around 1100 sq. ft.), and we couldn't afford a bigger one in our neighborhood, which we love!  So, we hired a contractor, who started in March of 2006 and said he'd have it done by June 5, 2006.  He was going along at a great pace, but then the project stalled.  Long story short, he finally completed it in April of 2007 (sigh).  But, even though it took WAY too long to get it done, we sure love the additional 450 sq. ft., including a new master bathroom.

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Questions or comments?  E-mail heidi@computerheidi.com .


updated 4/5/10