Happy Easter - Everyone

29 March 10 – 5 April 10

HE IS RISEN!!!

We had a story-teller for Easter, so spent the day feeling like we did NOT experience Easter. We did not even get a traditional Easter sermon, but Praise God – He Is Risen, Indeed!

Another Texas thing – I do NOT know if it will come to the rest of the country – but it takes some getting used to – all the traffic signals are on their side. Red is on the left and green on the right consequently you have to look to tell if it is green. My trivia for the week.

We took the ferry ride on Monday. What a ball. Pull up. Wait your turn and drive on. We had a semi second row over from us with another just ahead of us and the gulf on the other side. They probably had 45 – 50 total vehicles on board. Takes about 20 minutes and saved about an hour drive – maybe more because it would have been commute traffic when we returned.

We had a relaxing and enjoyable week. Watched birds, saw sites, and drove with a couple of notable days. You know how the farmer never leaves the boy – well I saw the first hay down on Wednesday. We drove by in the rain Friday afternoon and saw it getting washed.

Visited a fish hatchery on Saturday morning and were lucky. There was a couple and their three boys from TN and they talked the guide into doing a tour. We tagged along. Small world bit – she was from Mantua. They captivity breed and release salt water fish even being ten miles from the gulf. Dow has a waterway for barges to the gulf and they pump it the last 4-5 miles. Quite a process – they are growing 'red drum' and 'spotted sea bass'. The red drum eggs float so they capture them by taking off the top water. At hatching time they are the size of the period at the end of a sentence. We saw some a day and a half old and you could see eyes and they swam right along. At that size they eat algae. They are 30 inches by the age of four. Legal size to catch is 20 to 28 inches. The Osprey pictured in the recent past was eating a red drum – they have a red spot on the tail.

One of the pictures will show your tax dollars at work – wind turbine blades imported from China. Thanks Pres. they probably need the jobs.

Pictures:
Killdeer – challenged to find a safe place for the nest. On the road – of course.
Meadowlark – Eastern or Western? Only the song will tell When was the last time you saw one?
Turbine vanes – funny writing on them
Car on the beach
Car on the ferry