Mustang Island
First off, Happy Birthday to Son Justin, or "JT" as we call him. We hope you and Kaytlyn have a great day, and know you have a few reasons to be celebrating this year. "Hee Haw" and we'll be thinking of you more than usual today.
Another really nice day here on Monday. Dar was off to work at 6:15 this morning and I went over to Corpus Christi with neighbor Bill. Our mission was to harpoon a GPS that was on sale at Best Buy. Bill's existing GPS is getting old and needs a database update -- and it looked like he had the option of updating the database in the existing unit for $69 or buying a new one he found on sale for $89 -- kind'of a no-brainer.
Upon closer investigation, the on-sale unit was loaded with a 2009 database that's already more than a year old (the 2010 version has been out for months) -- so it wasn't such a good deal after all. He decided to pass and wait for future deals. With that behind us, we stopped at a couple more places to check out GPS's and other stuff (didn't buy a thing!), and then found an establishment on North Padre Island, overlooking the bay, for lunch. The place is called Snoopy's and it turned out to be quite good.
We took the long way home -- right along the Gulf shoreline, up Mustang Island toward the north and to the village of Port Anansas. For almost the entire 20+ mile distance, it's possible to drive the beach on Mustang... and we did. There aren't many days here when the wind is light, the air warm and crystal clear, like it was today. Dar and I have been to the island many times in the past three winters, but conditions today made it a day to remember. If the weather is similar tomorrow, Tuesday, I'm going to try to talk Dar into coming back and spending the day with sand between our toes.
And whad'ya know! As I write this, about 7:30pm, Dar called and said she's on her way home... the earliest she's made it home since starting this "part-time" job. I think we'll do some exploring tomorrow.
Thinking I'll take a camera along this time...
Thom
Another really nice day here on Monday. Dar was off to work at 6:15 this morning and I went over to Corpus Christi with neighbor Bill. Our mission was to harpoon a GPS that was on sale at Best Buy. Bill's existing GPS is getting old and needs a database update -- and it looked like he had the option of updating the database in the existing unit for $69 or buying a new one he found on sale for $89 -- kind'of a no-brainer.
Upon closer investigation, the on-sale unit was loaded with a 2009 database that's already more than a year old (the 2010 version has been out for months) -- so it wasn't such a good deal after all. He decided to pass and wait for future deals. With that behind us, we stopped at a couple more places to check out GPS's and other stuff (didn't buy a thing!), and then found an establishment on North Padre Island, overlooking the bay, for lunch. The place is called Snoopy's and it turned out to be quite good.
We took the long way home -- right along the Gulf shoreline, up Mustang Island toward the north and to the village of Port Anansas. For almost the entire 20+ mile distance, it's possible to drive the beach on Mustang... and we did. There aren't many days here when the wind is light, the air warm and crystal clear, like it was today. Dar and I have been to the island many times in the past three winters, but conditions today made it a day to remember. If the weather is similar tomorrow, Tuesday, I'm going to try to talk Dar into coming back and spending the day with sand between our toes.
And whad'ya know! As I write this, about 7:30pm, Dar called and said she's on her way home... the earliest she's made it home since starting this "part-time" job. I think we'll do some exploring tomorrow.
Thinking I'll take a camera along this time...
Thom
