§ The Wind Beneath My Wings...

Of course, I'm excited. But, I am going to go out on a limb here; the Broncos will lose by many points! I still have a soft spot for the team tho...been following them since the 1960s!!! When Craig Morton was quarterback....the majority probably never heard of him. Oh my gosh, I just realized I've been a fan as long as the super bowl existed. I'm ancient!! Even tho the game will no doubt be one-sided -me thinks-, I will still have my blue and orange garb and my 'traditional' blue and orange cupcakes. No different, after all these years. Secretly hoping I'm wrong in my prediction.  There was a duo on the 'old team' long ago that continues today to be my favorite players...Elway and #87....wowsers!...Ed Macaffery Still....GO BRONCOS

Several weeks ago, I had mentioned on a cold, very windy day, Bud and I walked along the trail that connects the two parks adjacent to two city boundaries, Portland/Corpus Christi, Texas. The parks have two names even tho they are of one section of land...On the Corpus Christi side, it's Indian Point. On the Portland, Texas side, it's called Sunset Lakes. While walking along the path I stopped and watched an egret preen; having difficulties keeping balanced and feathers flying all a'kilter. My first thought was "a bad hair day" but that is so cliché, I'll forgo with that and just share the photos I took of it - - -

It's February, and y'all know what that means...on the 9th I will be 67. Bud found this cute, little, fun, book for me and brought it home. All about the year 1949. I had to read it from cover to cover of course. Brought back tons of memories of things I can remember...no, not of the particular year...but the lifestyles that changed from 1949 and how my parents raised me throughout my formative years. That was the year that was...from the onset of dishwashers, TV sets, nonsensical cartoons, clothes, women becoming part of the work force outside the home.  They taught me how to act and learn respect. Things that somehow seem like the simpler life; it was better in so many ways!! Thru the years, I've gone from toddler, to adolescence, to wife, at one time loving to travel a lot around the country, mother, grandmother and retiree. Life is good.

From inside the cover - 1949:

§ Come along...

CLICK ON PHOTOS TO ENLARGE in a slideshow...

But first...let me get this off my chest!! If the Broncos were playing against the Blogland Nursing Home...the Nursing home would have been world champs!! What a messed up game for those Denver donkeys Broncos. It was cool that the Seahawks won a Superbowl to be sure...their drought is over. But...the way the Broncos played? What a fiasco. After the TD in the 2nd half on the first kick to open the 2nd half...I shut the game off!! I'm wondering just how they won the Division Championship and then lose so terribly in the 'Big Game'?!! Oh well.  Maybe it was the altitude?  LOL

There, I'm done whining and b!tching. Moving on....

Yesterday, our usual Sunday walk took us just a few miles into town. It was overcast, warm, but threatening rain. Neither one of us felt much like driving to the islands. So, we walked the length of the seawall and back. About a 4 mile walk round trip I guess, I've never 'clocked the distance'. When we left home it was a perfect day to walk. Really. By the time we got to town, the fog had drifted in, and by the time we got back in the car to drive to the grocery store to get stuff for pastrami sandwiches, making potato salad and cole slaw for the game, there was a gentle rain falling. The temp dropped drastically [about 20 degrees or so] when we arrived home. Anyway, I took photos along our walk MANY PHOTOS!!...at the Marina mostly. Here are some. All have mouseover captions. Just drag your mouse over the images and you'll be able to read what you're seeing--

In the fog, as we walked, Bud and I could hear the chugging of a boat's motor long before it came into view. We listened; watched for it...finally in the distance, beyond the breakwater, the Marina Police were returning. During this time, beyond the safety of the breakwater, there was [and remains this morning] a small craft warning...inclement conditions; both fog and dangerous currents.

--the next post I publish will be a continuance of the Seawall Walk. The Shrimp boats, all but one, were docked with absolutely no activity. This part of the Marina was nearly completely abandoned, so I took advantage of no shrimpers and got up close and personal with one particular shrimp boat!! In detail. Until Next Time.....