Wind and Mosquitoes

 

Adventure Location: Rockport, Texas

Today Date: 4-22-2023

First the foot report. The right foot is doing very well and allowed a slightly brisker 1.7 mile walk down at the Beach Park. The mosquitoes mostly stayed off of us due to the 20+ mph winds. We wrapped that walking off with a bit of time sitting watching the bird activities. Mr. Right Foot rewarded the OFM Team with nearly no more pain the rest of the day. Some swelling is still in the toes area but the pain is gone, at least for now.

However the mosquitoes were trying to be a miserable presence. Stopping to rest out of the wind was an immediate blood sucking attack. So we stayed very wind blown and only had about four bites for the morning.

That couple were trying to set up the umbrella to shade them for sitting at the bay front. Before they got it unfurled the wind flipped it inside out and we could see a couple of broken pieces dangling. After about ten minutes of fighting the wind they got it folded up in sort of a manner and stuffed in the trunk and slammed the trunk down. It looked like the windy fun was over so we moved on to other fun.

The painted foam for the door of the Castle sure looks nice instead of that filthy dirty dark yellow brown that it used to be.

This afternoon we examined our new coloring books and chose the seashells one to start our learning effort. We did two shells with Prismacolor color pencils. Then two shells with Gold Faber colored pencils. And finally for today two shells with Prismacolor water color pencils. All of the pencils worked very well but the pencil operator needs to practice a bit more.

The paper the images are printed on are as usual, less than the best for colored pencil art. This is definitely another education process we are in now.

The big Nautical Sale at the harbor is next weekend if we recall correctly. So we will do our harboring this weekend and during the next week and then go into exile from the harbor area. It is usually an incredible packed mess that we do not want to participate in. So we will find somewhere else for trying to have tooooo much fun.