Weekend News

Sunday was our first day of beautiful weather. It was sunny and in the 80s, winds only 15 mph. Hot sun and dry air. ahhhh. By 6 pm the fog was rolling in. It was so damp my bed table was soon puddled with water from the open window. The folding shade was dripping.

Paul and I talked to Charlie on the phone, he has such a cute voice. And Julia was screaming all the time in the background. Happy squeals. She is walking around now. Julie and Sean had Patrick baptised on Saturday after mass. She sent photos. We are leaving in one week. Can't wait to get my grandma hands on Patrick, he has grown so much. I have made some kits to teach Anna and Megan how to do Swedish weaving. It will be a stretch for Anna, but they have to do the same things always. It will be good for their math brains. Not sure what it will do for my brain. And Katie and Mark are looking for a house in New York state, and she likes her job, it is easy. Way to go Katie. Steff had emailed me about some new sock yarn they are getting in, can't wait to see it.

This past week three of our couple friends have left, Larry and Katherine back to Illinois and freezing rain, Rick and Shirlene back to Weatherford, Ok, and bad storms, and Randy and Caroline back to Arkansas and flooding. I sure hope that it is spring in Clare in a few weeks for us! And Billy Ray and Sherry left for Tulsa on Thursday too. Paul called him today and it was raining hard and a tornado was 40 miles from them. Oh, it is scary to go back to the weather.

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Port Aransas Shuck and Suck Party

The slogan for this oyster festival is "It's only dirty if you'r dirty minded!" And the web site is http://www.shuckandsuck.org/ . It started misting about the same time that the band started playing, but in the pavilion it didn't matter. This is in the harbor area, right next to the shrimp boat Polly Anna. They cooked and served oysters in a variety of ways that everyone else said were delicious. I can actually watch someone eat an oyster now, so making progress. Certainly I cannot get drunk enough to eat them myself. I also don't believe I can wear the tee shirt. Paul had to have one, actually everyone had to have one. They are tie dyed fluorescent green and white. When we got back to the park he had to wear it over to show all our Texan friends partying near us and the women folk drove down to Roberts Landing Park to buy some.

Was able to upload one photo of the Shuck and Suck tees, it is Susan and Paul. I also have a few on my Webshots, the Spring Break 2008 album.

Another week slides by

Weeks here just slide by and poof. We are sitting around all tired out on Sunday night, and then it is Thursday night and another week hits the dust. Where do those days go?

We spend as much as possible at the beach. Thursday was windy and in the high 70s. The high winds of Wednesday brought in a lot of junk. In one mile of beach I picked up 3 intact light bulbs and 3 glass bottles. And as much plastic crap as I could carry to the trash bin. Plastic is the biggest offender. Water bottles lead the way with packing materials close behind.

The sea weeds are Sargasso grass, which forms the Sargasso Sea. Which many miles of the grass floating out in the ocean. All the junk floats into it -- keeping the ocean clean, and it floats to land when the weeds blow in. Many marine creatures live in the floating raft of weeds. When they land on the beach it helps to build the dunes and feed the birds and spreads seeds from island to land, etc. The seeds are called sea beans, and there are many and varied. There are books with photos of the seeds and names. Of course they are hard and light so they float easily. I like the monkey face and heart of the sea.

I took a picture of a jelly fish yesterday. I posted the photo of a large one before, this one is about 2 inches across. Sometimes we find very tiny ones, they just look like a small dot of clear jelly. Also I have a photo of a Portuguese Man of War.

Dee Teller Runs With Her Brush

Dee is the artist that I told you about. I can't just send you to her web site because she doesn't have one. She paid someone to make her one but it didn't work out. She was invited to compete in an art competition by China's Ministry of Culture and won third place in the world, out of 6000 contestants. And she is nice and fun. Here are some photos of some of her art that I took. Was only able to upload one photo.
Dee's email address is tteller2@aol.com

Mexican Train and Poker

Monday night we were invited to a pot luck at a home near the park. Shirley's sister and husband live there. It was so nice. When we don't motor home any more we might condo or house rent. Dee is an award winning artist, she will get her own blog entry when I get the photos just right. Her speciality is Asian Brush Painting, seems to specialize in horses. Very, very nice.

After dinner, the men and Mavis played dealers choice poker. The ladies played Mexican Train, which is a dominos game. I have played it before and it was fun. I sat at the table for four hours. Anyone who knows me realizes that this is a new world record of sociability for me. (with the exception of Pinochle with Cyndi and Wy, and euchre with Jen and Mike) I could hardly stand when we finished. I didn't lose but I sure was tired. I am always awake till 11, but am laying in bed watching TV by then, not concentrating and being nice.

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New Pictures

Julie just posted some new pics of the kids at Easter. They are just so cute. We will be there in two weeks.

Patrick is wearing the sweater I knit him. He will grow into it someday.