Friday Gary rode his bike in the morning, about 14 miles along Fulton Beach Road down to Allegro Key, an expensive area of homes on the water. Again, I keep saying this but it is so beautiful here.
After he got back, we walked Luci in an area where she can be off leash to run. The good news, the weather has been great but the bad news, the mosquitos are back. We should buy stock in Cutters.
We decorated for Christmas in and outside the coach, last year we purchased a lighted Santa face, he's inside the windshield and when we were in Mexico we bought a large poinsettia flower (plastic) that we put over the windshield. I'm not too sure how long that is going to last, the wind keeps stripping it's leaves. Inside I have our ceramic lighted Christmas tree that we had used in the house in Salem for many years, I'd found it when we were getting rid of our "stuff". It's only about 8 inches tall so it doesn't take much room. Then my favorite decoration, a gift from Marilyn, an original water color picture of four snowmen. And the nice part, after Christmas, it won't take long to put everything away. Then of course Friday night happy hour, we were a little late, I was finishing publishing last weeks blog.
Saturday as we walked along Fulton Beach Road we noticed a heron flying with a fish in his mouth, he was drawing quite a crowd, other birds were wanting a bite. We had several errands to run in Rockport so we decided to grab a bite to eat at the Apple Dumpling deli. Delish, Great sandwiches, salads and their specialty, apple dumplings. I haven't had one but they sure look good. We picked up some pork chops at the meat market, the Dollar Store and HEB, a regional grocery chain. In Texas it seems your only choices for groceries is HEB or Wal-Mart, you never see a Safeway or Albertsons.
We enjoyed BBQ'd pork chops then watched the Ducks win!
Sunday on our walk down FBR we noticed a group of white pelicans, they stood out against the blue water, they tickle me the way they dive into the water for fish, looks like a suicide mission. All along the Gulf Coast is a major birding area with thousands of birds and waterfowl that winter here to nest and breed. At 2:00 we went to the ice cream social, again, skipping the ice cream, then played Pegs and Jokers after.
Monday we needed to go to Aransas Pass for several errands, the major reason, the car has been making a funny "boing boing" noise every so often. It sounded as if it came out of the radio but when we turned the radio off it still made that noise. They didn't have a clue, said they would need to drive it, it's such a random noise we figured it would not happen. We stopped at Lowes for spray paint to freshen up our cactus and Wal-Mart to buy some toys for Toys for Tots. Gary got a little truck and I got a little doll, which giggles. Well it giggled all the way back to Rockport, we were glad to drop it off at the Park office. We did some geo caching on the way back. one was pretty cute. The clue said "it will see you before you see it", very true it was a skull. (not real of course) As we were passing through Rockport the "boing" noise started again. Gary just happened to glance at the GPS, the "boing" was a warning for school zones. We could have spent big bucks getting the noise analyzed. We've had the GPS for over a year without the warning, maybe we just weren't in a school zone when the yellow lights were on.
Tuesday morning I had an appointment to get my hair cut, the humid weather must make hair grow faster. The gal here that has been cutting my hair is 8 1/2 months pregnant, I was her last client until she gets back from maternity leave, she's had some minor complications so Dr. told her to quit working. I worked on my quilt for a while, starting to make some headway.
Wednesday we took Luci to the Salty Dog Doggie Day care and Grooming for a few hours of play then a much overdue bath. We decided to go geo caching, we headed back towards Aransas Pass, just about 10 or so miles from Rockport. We had noticed a Historical Marker along the way on previous trips but never took the time to stop. The Cemetereo San Antonio de padun, according to the sign, a man named George Lewis (1859-1895) donated a half an acre of land to be used as a cemetery for Hispanics. I'd like to know why but I can't find any information. Anyway there was a geo cache right under the historical marker. We cached all the way to AP ending up in the marina where RedFish Willies Restaurant is located, it was Gary's plan all along. We had a nice light lunch, continued gc'ing only to have 4 DNF's (did not find) in a row. Time to quit and go pick up a much better smelling Luci. Wednesday night happy hour is followed by a dinner. Talk about delish! Betty fixed a pork loin, potatoes au gratin, fresh green beans, cranberry salad and a wonderful cherry chocolate cake. MMMMMM. She sure can cook.
Thursday we went caching with Robert and Diana, aka, Spike and Velour, their geo cache name. We headed off to Aransas, across the water from Aransas Pass, you have to take a ferry to Mustang Island. Our goal was to pick up 11 to make a total of 2200 and they had 6 to go to 3700. We failed. We kept getting stumped on seemingly easy ones. We're not sure if they had been muggled or we were just inept. You'd think four people with a total of almost 6900 finds could find simple gc's. One of the caches was in a bird viewing park, Robert and Diana are are birders also, we were thrilled to see several large birds in the marshy area, they identified one of them as a Black Crown Night Heron, a gorgeous bird. As we were watching he spread his wings out to dry them. As we were on the ferry crossing over to Mustang Island we noticed a SUV in front of us with a dove on his back windshield wiper. What was really odd, it was fake. Why would anyone want to put a dove there? We had lunch at Aransas Brewing, the food was good but I think I was still full from Wednesday nights dinner, so I had a crab cake appetizer, Gary had a delish looking burger. We had to get back to Rockport by 4:00 so we had to scurry. Thursday night we play Pegs and Jokers at the same time as Bingo, I want to yell Bingo just for fun. I'd probably get stoned.
Friday morning I wrapped the grandkids Christmas gifts so we could get them in the mail. Justin retired from the Army and will be going to school in Olympia so they moved to Shelton just this week. It's been a geo cache week, we picked up four more. I discovered the reason they named Fire Ants, because my feet felt like they were on fire after stepping on an ant hill. Not pleasant. We went to Friday night Happy Hour then home to watch the Ducks win the Pac 12 championship. Go Ducks!
That's it for this week, Hope as is well with all of you,
TTFN
Gary and Pam
PS pardon my technical skills
historical sign
clever geo cache
Just about stumped us
How it looks in the pile of rocks except it was turned over
Black Crown Night Herron
The Hispanic cemetery
The SUV with the Dove (?)
Crossing the water into Aransas
Gary and Luci looking for birds
A nasty geo cache
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