Adventure Location: Lake Corpus Christi, Texas
Does anyone else consider airplanes to be canned virus?
Yep right at five days after the Friday flight and the OFM is feeling “flu-ish”.
He will probably be a wreck the next seven days. Hopefully Grandson Gavin did
not catch anything from him.
For no good reason the Teams voted to go to Lake Corpus
Christi today to do some outdoors walking and biking. We did get in a bit of
walking but the blistered feet objected to very much exercise. It was up to 83 degrees F when we left and
headed back to the Castle.
It had been forgotten that there is lots of miles of good
roadside shoulders in the area for bike riding. All around Sinton is great road
riding. Here is an example of the size of the shoulders on the road as well as
how flat the road is for easy riding.
We made it into the State Park at Lake CC. The first stop
was the necessities building on top of a hill overlooking the lake. My goodness
the lake is very low. We decided to go
over to the fishing pier to park for our meandering starting spot. The pier is water challenged for
fishing now.
So the Meandering Team got busy looking around at all the
exposed lake bottom. One of the first things we spotted was this critter making
its way along the top of a concrete bulkhead.
Next we headed off through the bushes growing on the lake
bottom. To our surprise there are hundreds of butterflies and moths occupying
the bushes. They would fly up like a big cloud all around the Team and then
start to settle back down on the bushes. It was really interesting to
participate in this event. Here is a picture of the butterflies on the first
bush.
Then we came to a bush that let us grab a shot of three
(at least) butterflies on it.
Down closer to the water was this moth that was very
pretty. It held very still for the picture to be taken.
By now the blisters were talking loudly, so the Team
headed back to the Truck for lunch. The vote after lunch was to head on back to
the Castle, which we did. The bright sun, warm day and cool breeze made for a
fantastic day of trying to have tooooo much fun. TheOFM.
Chances are whatever you caught you got from Gavin, rather than the other way around. Especially if he spends any time in child care with the other little critters. Seems like every time I go visit our Evie (9 mo.) I come down with something afterwards. I laughingly called her "Typhoid Evie" the other day but her grandma didn't think it was much of a joke.
ReplyDeleteThese little guys catch and release a lot of stuff. It can't be helped. It's all a part of building up their immune systems, getting ready to be a part of the big world.
A few weeks ago Evie came down with pneumonia for a few days, and I reflected (to myself) how lucky parents are these days, with all the new medicines. Pneumonia is apparently just an inconvenience. She popped right back. But not long ago, say in the generation before ours, all her parents would have been able to do is wait and hope and pray for her fever to break. Over and over, all through the standard infections, and maybe a few more. It could make you crazy.
But even if I seem to catch something every other time I see her, Typhoid Evie's still the best way I know of having tooo much fun. I expect the same is so of Gavin.
GG is not involved with child care businesses at this time. The plane had several coughing kids on the flights.
DeleteDaycare centers are literal viral breeding grounds... a veritable agar filled petri dish .
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Lots of people get sick after an airplane ride - isn't the air circulated around and around during the flight? All the germs that don't get killed during the recirculation process would just keep coming back, right? Not to mention nearby travelers coughing and sneezing - yuk. Hope you feel better soon.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't believe that photo of the pier soooo far above the water. This must be a particularly bad year for lakes. All the lakes I've seen this year have been super low, some didn't allow boats, I guess because there wasn't a place to launch them.
The moth in the last photo is beautiful. :)
Lots of drought still in the West.
DeleteYou probably caught something when you had to remove your shoes (grin). Texes is still in drought conditions.
ReplyDeleteDD did you mean Texas?????
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