Family Fight Report

 

Adventure Location: Rockport, Texas

Today Date: 4-20-2023

The morning use of the bad foot was minimal but the pain was a lot less also. Our choice of medicine for initial treatment was 400 mg of Ibuprofen at breakfast. By 0900 we were walking around well enough to carry our laundry over to the machines and get our clothes washed, dried, folded and put away without much problem. That was an important chore done. We did something smart for a change and chose to sit and work on the computer for an hour or so while the foot rested. The swelling went down a large amount and the pain diminished so it must have been the right thing to do.

During the careful healing effort we roamed the marina area a bit just to get out of the house. Down at the far end of the marina they are still hard at work on demolishing parts of the breakwater that was failing. Here is a picture of the equipment tearing it apart.

From there we rolled over to the Beach Park and down to the Allegro Channel that feeds Little Bay. A working barge has been doing things along the channel but we could never see what. However today I was told that the bulk heading on the channel is being repaired and more dirt is bolstering the new repairs . Here is what we could see from the beach park bank.

The Castle entry door window has had two layers of .75 inch foam tied on the inside surface of the door window for insulation for over 14 years. We noticed that the tan desert fine sand had turned the foam tan. So we decided that we could clean that even with a bum foot. What we did not count on was the big mosquito hatch last night. Anyway we got the foam off the door and washed in the bath tub and set for drying. After the foam was dry we gave the visible side of the foam a good coat of bright white white acrylic paint. Then we fought the blood suckers to get it tied back on the door to behave like insulation again. It really helps in the bright sun. Here is a picture of it while drying.

We found out what the police were doing in the park the other day. There was an internal family squabble happened and they will be shortly leaving the campground. We are glad the manager does not tolerate much from trouble makers. In the mean time we are going to do some heavy duty resting tonight in hopes of getting in a little health walking tomorrow. We definitely will not be pushing it, so having tooooo much fun might be a bit lacking tomorrow.