This fellow is outside the Neon Light shop
This one is outside the Tourist Office
Not sure why this one is just on the roadside
this one is outside the Library...never guess, would you??
This lovely sculpture is also outside the Library...on the roadside.
This funny looking one is on private property next to the Dairy Queen..ok..we stopped for Blizzards!
And all topped off with a gorgeous sunset...another one:)
Warren didnt stop working yesterday, so around3.30pm, I suggested he stop what he was doing and go for a Blizzard at Dairy Queen. This is a frozen milk (like soft freeze Ice cream) combined with a choice of toppings, and then whipped all together, for those who dont know. Warren chose a small (NZ size med.!) Banana Cream Pie, which he enjoyed and I chose a Turtle,Caramel and pecan mix..small. Cant eat any other size...too much, altogether.
I have to say it was a good opportunity to get away from the boat, out of the heat and humidity and enjoy some quiet time. We then went to the Library to renew our boat library, which is getting depleted with all the reading we are getting done. I have to confess that the last book I finished was such trash (ok, so why did I read it? Can't start a book and not finish it!! really!) that I threw it in the bin, tonight!
The rest I will recycle...back to the Friends of the Library.
After dinner we went for a walk to find the source of the music we could hear that was coming from a different direction to the music we normally hear from either the Kemah Boardwalk or Outrigger Restaurant.
We found the source to be a live band at the Portofino Marina, across the creek from our marina. We sat on a wooden picnic table and listened for a good hour, with much enjoyment. Too bad we didnt have lights on the dinghy, otherwise we might have joined them. We know people with a boat at the marina, and Im sure we could have scared them up!
We always find someone to talk to on our nightly walks, and last night it was a fellow trying to find a bar-b-q to steal some space on to cook his corn cob. It turned out he was also looking for somewhere to cook his Atlantic Salmon, but we only found this on the way back...and he had his own b-b-q, but no light. We told the night security guy who went and showed him how to turn on the lights in the Cabana. In the meantime we heard his life story, and what his kids are doing etc etc. We must have a sign on our heads that says"tell me all about yourself"!:)
Before the light went down, I had walked along the pier to take the trash out, and came across another live-aboard person who has set up his own 'Yacht Club' in the Cabana outside his yacht. Here is another 50 something who has sold everything in favor of the good life onboard. He got his college degree in experimental music, and then ended up having an international career as a Software Engineer....most of his experiemental music was composed on a computer in the '80's. I guess you can figure the rest!
He is an interesting fellow, which I found out after joining him in the Yacht Club for a time, and we exchanged information and I learned a lot about the local yachting scene, sailing Galveston Bay and down to Port Aransas etc...
I find people endlessly fascinating. Stories I often wish I could put into a book, they are so interesting.
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