Salt Air

Morning is once more here on the coast. I ventured a peep through one eye to see if the sun was up but found it to still be dark outside. I have a built in alarm clock after working for 50 years. You get up early for that long and it is hard to break the habit when you retire.I still get enough sleep seeing as how I might sneak in a nap during the day when Sherri is not looking and Kris is outside playing.

I got out of bed and went on in to the kitchen to turn on the coffee pot. One thing we need in the mornings is coffee. You hear about so many studies...coffee is good for you coffee is bad for you. I know one thing that coffee oils the attitude around here and with out it...well you just don't want to be around when we have not had our coffee.

I was not up long and Sherri rolled out of bed. I met her at the kitchen door with her cup of coffee and she wondered over to the sofa where she perches to drink her coffee and play words games. I settled back down behind the lap top at the kitchen table and began my entry to the journal. 

I had so many wonderful comments from some of my friends yesterday. Thank you all for commenting. I really enjoy hearing from everyone. Without my family and friends I would feel so alone writing my journal. After all it is for you that I write it.

Today is Saturday and we are going to see what the weather does before we do anything. The temps here have been good but the wind has been without quarter. I remember being in west Texas when the wind would blow like this and the sand would be like a scrub brush on your checks. Not so much sand here but the salt in the air is beginning to build up on the MH and the Jeep. 

This can mean only one thing. I need to clean them both. They do not allow you to wash your RV here but I can rinse it off and work my solution around until I get it all done.

The Jeep on the other hand I can take down and have it washed. It looked real good when they got finished.

When I got back from getting the Jeep washed I got my ladder out and started on the MH. Kris helped me and we got all the windows cleaned. 

While we were cleaning the windows a little boy kept riding by on his bike. Kris wanted me to get his bike down so he could ride. I had to remind him that he could not ride a bike yet without training wheels. He begged me to get it down and assured me that he could ride it. He said he was feeling it now and that given the chance he could do it by himself.

OK so the bike came off the rack and before I knew it Kris was riding his bike! I guess all it took was him seeing that little boy riding around. Well I gave Sherri something new to worry about. She will be wondering where he is and if he is OK. 

We spent the rest of the day with Jim and June. They came over and had dumplings with us and then we headed out to see the port of Galveston. While I was at the docks I picked me out a boat. I am not sure how I will get it back to the barn but I will come up with something.

We left the docks and drove by some of the old homes just off the beach. I could see how at one time Galveston was one of the riches cities in the US. This was back before the 1900 hurricane.

Our last place to go was the east end of the island where we got to see the Disney Ship leave the harbor. Kris waved goodbye to Mickey and his friends as they sailed out to sea...

Somewhere in Time