CFS

 

Adventure Location: Rockport, Texas

Date: April 28, 2023

Due to creaky, stiff but not painful lower body joints this morning we took extra time getting going today. The OFM feels very lucky that nearly all of his less than perfect joints are mostly with out pain. We hit up the Memorial Park trails to take advantage of their smoothness to help with a bit of balance trouble. It turned out to be a very nice time at the park with nice temps and pretty nice skies.

After finishing the walking we hit up a couple of stores to just look around for nothing in particular. We did notice we need to take the camera back to the Walmart Garden Center to use it on the latest shipment of pretties. Our flower reference photo section could use some succulent blooms added to it. The desert sure makes pretty blooms.

More piddling on the computer about where and when we will leave here. The owners of this business want it to be a cheap housing kind of place where folks move an RV into it and it stays there permanently. So it seems we will not fit that mold and will need to plan on not coming back here again to the Quiet One Cheap Housing Place. We support the owners preference that it is his location and he should be allowed to have it be whatever legal style he wants it.

At the Market Street pier this evening We got to see a nice young man fishing from the loose boulders lining that pier catch a pretty but too small speckled trout. He had much better balance than the OFM. It was a couple of years ago that the OFM had to quit trying to get down to the water on those rocks and stay alive.

The next angler to the kid above was also down on the rocks wielding a nice long fly rod of saltwater strength trying for a few fish. The strong winds were giving him troubles but he was making it all work just fine.

This next picture is the end of the marina breakwater where the construction removed the 18 inch high wall that was on it.

The windy wave action would make the walking surface on that breakwater way to slippery with green growing stuff for the OFM to be on it. The new entrance light can be seen on a new metal post that has replaced the old wooden piling that had held the rusted to bits entrance light of the past.

We closed out the day with the Chicken Fried Steak Friday special at the Vallarta restaurant. It is good and we get it most Friday nights with a massive glass of sweet tea. It has proved a great way for the OFM Teams to finish a successful day of trying to have tooooo much fun.