I ride my bike nearly every day (I missed 3 days in Feb. because of rain one day and I guess the other two days were because of laziness, time, or wind), so I set a goal of riding 150 miles for the month. Randy said I should have set it higher (he who rides occasionally and not too far, but at least he rides). With 3 days to go, I had 142 miles in. No problem, right? But the wind has been horrific these past 3 days. Yesterday I got off and walked a little because I was concerned the crosswind was going to blow the bike and me over. Because I set a goal (aren't goals great!), I had to do it today. I rode 3.7 Thurs, 3.0 Fri, then another 3 miles today, with much difficulty, for a total of 151.7 miles for the month. As I started riding around the RV Park today, I saw a big ship and several dolphins "frolicking" (Randy says they are going after fish), so I got a bonus for reaching my goal. I took lots of pics of the dolphins, but none good enough to post. I started the day in shorts (normal for here), but the wind switched to the north and got pretty chilly (still in the 60's), so I put on sweats before I rode this afternoon. I guess I should set a higher goal for March, but I'm not sure yet. Depends on when we are going home. I know I won't ride as much at home.

I went to the beach this afternoon, knowing I was probably too late to find many good seashells (I was right), but it was such a beautiful day that I just had to take a walk on the beach (and wade in the water). It was about 75 degrees and windy. I just want to show my grandchildren that I am really enjoying the beach! I wish Sabrina, Braden, Lauren, Logan, Keegan, and Gavin (and your parents) could be here to enjoy it with us. Didn't we have fun last year at Port Aransas!! We tried to talk my Mother into coming down, and she considered it, but decided it was just too far to travel.

When we heard a ship's horn this afternoon, I glanced out the door and could see a ship in the distance. I quickly climbed up on top of the Fifth Wheel to get a better look (even though I don't like heights), and this is what I saw. You can see there are several rows of RVs between us and the water, so we are just lucky when we see one from our RV. They don't always blow their horns. A couple of years we had a site where we could look out our back window and see the water on the other side of the fence and road, so we saw lots of ships those years. We haven't been lucky enough to get one of those better sites for awhile.

Stephanie says she reads my blog to Keegan and Gavin, but they are disappointed to not see any pictures of their "Gigi." Today I was tying a "CARS" quilt, which some young boy should be happy to receive. We make charity quilts Tues and Thurs mornings at "Chapel by the Sea." The Chaplain told us that 2 weeks ago nearly 900 people (total) attended the 3 worship services. In March, they cut back to 2 services because Winter Texans start going home.

We also watched this shrimp boat head out for shrimping, but the
Border Patrol and Customs boat had the shrimp boat turn around and head back to port. It wasn't too long before the shrimp boat headed out again. Apparently, there wasn't too big a problem, or at least the problem was taken care of quickly.

While I was sitting with fisherman Randy, we had quite a dolphin show. By the time you see dolphins surface and click the camera, they are usually back under the water. This was the best I could get that day, although we saw several dolphins chasing around for awhile. This boat (on wheels) is a land/sea "Aqua Dog", just out for a dolphin watch.

Fishing

It was brought to my attention (by Doyle and Flo) that there are no fish pictures on this blog. I guess that is because when Randy caught his largest fish (26" Red), I wasn't home with the camera, so it got cleaned and cut up before I got home. Thus, we have no proof. The next good one was a 23" Red, but it had a chunk out of it's tail and not too pretty. I guess he better get busy and get more more. Mangrove Snappers are pretty fish, so I'll take a pic of the next one of those he brings home. Here we have Randy fishing and Randy extracting ghost shrimp from the beach (using a pump) to use for bait.