We’re back in Texas at Bay View RV
Resort in Rockport—our winter home. The park is pretty quiet so far, with
summer campers transitioning out and “Winter Texans” slowly moving back in.
Weather has been beautiful, with mostly sunny days, clouds moving in and out,
relatively low humidity, and a breeze off the Gulf of Mexico. We sure could use
some rain, though. The park’s ponds are really low, but somehow everything
stays green. It’s sure good to be back.
This week we walked the park a few
days, seeing just a few birds: Great Blue and Tri-colored Herons, both the White Ibis and Glossy Ibis, and the ever present White and Snowy Egrets. It
appears that most of the winter birds haven’t yet arrived. (Just us snow
birds—ha!) And, we saw a little green toad, butterflies, a turtle and some unidentified wild flowers, too.
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| Clockwise: Glossy Ibis, White Ibis, Tri-colored Heron, Great White Egret |
We also walked along Fulton Beach
Road, falling in love with the view all over again. And, we did see a
kingfisher (either still, or perched again, on a wire just like last year), a
great blue heron, and a killdeer (so beautiful with the highly defined stripes
around its neck).
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| Clockwise: Kingfisher, Great Blue Heron and his buddy a Eurasion Collared Dove, Snowy Egret and, a Killdeer |
We attended First Baptist Church
of Rockport both Sundays since we’ve been back. The first Sunday Pastor Scott
Jones ended his sermon series from 1 Corinthians chapter 14 on “God’s imperfect
but transformed people in an unbelieving culture”; and, began a new series on
“The Resurrection”, from 1 Corinthians 15:1-34 yesterday. His final thought is
that death will not have the last say
over us, because of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. And, are our lives
influenced by what we believe about death and eternity? Here’s a link to his
sermons—they’re worth listening to. http://fbcrockport.net/sermons/
The first Sunday we were back,
Dick rode his motorcycle to Rockport’s SeaFair to check it out. It was a
full-blown celebration, with rides, vendors, a vintage car show, a boat show,
music and food. (I elected to stay home to work on the blog, in my outdoor
office. The weather was too beautiful to be inside.)
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| The 2008 Ferrari captured "Best in Show" and the 1951 Chevy received the "People's Choice" awards. |
He shot some video of two of the
performers: Jade Marie Patek and the James Little Band. Click on their names to hear. Enjoy!
Monday we decided it was time to
do laundry, and have breakfast from Whataburger. Yea! Afterward, Dick was back
at work in the office for a few hours.
We just had to have pizza at
Panjo’s on Tuesday, so we snagged friends Steve and Marty, and Lynda to join
us. Mmm, good! Just as we remembered. Dick and I attempted to try local pizzas
wherever we were last summer, but most didn’t measure up to Panjo’s.
Our big black truck needed to have
the tires rotated, so that was how Dick spent his Wednesday morning. He also
purchased new wiper blades and got his hair cut. (Finally!) That evening he played his first Texas Hold
‘em of the season, coming home with lighter pockets than he left. Hmm, he’ll
need to hone his skills at this rate. So far he’s down $6.
Thursday we welcomed more “family”
members back to the park at Prescott and Pat’s happy hour: Ed and Angie arrived
from Wisconsin, as did Art, and Marge arrived from Michigan. They’re gradually
coming home to roost!
I washed windows outside on
Friday, as Dick worked in the office again. It’s so good to be able to see out
again! Ha! The ground is a bit uneven and sandy, so it was a matter of balance
as I moved the ladder around the camper. No mishaps!
Saturday, computer doctor Dick
helped both Carol and Lynda with computer issues—according to them, he works
wonders!
Yesterday, our 2nd
Sunday back, after church and breakfast—and before the baseball playoffs and
Seahawk's football—we walked through the park stopping first at Bill and Carol’s
site to pick up her computer. We chatted for a while, catching up on everything
in the park since we left last May, since they live here year ‘round. Then, we
walked to Bonnie and Jerry’s site to welcome them back, as they arrived to the
park on Friday from Idaho, planning to be year ‘round residents here from now
on. So good to see all of them again.
When we were in Betty’s RV Resort
in Abbeville, Louisiana with friends Marvin, Shirley, Randy and Jeri, we selected
this lovely piece of Intarsia artwork from pieces Marvin made and brought with
him from Illinois. We hung it in our kitchen area—perfect! Thank you, Marvin,
for sharing yourself with us in such special ways.
Well, that’s it folks. It may take
a while to get up and rolling again with activities (Sharon, our winter
activities director doesn’t arrive ‘til next week). In the meantime, we’ll keep
you up to date on all that’s happening here. ‘Til then,
Love ‘n’ hugs,
RJ and Gail
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