The last few days have been cool and overcast, but not cold.
It looks like winter out the window, but it is only cool with high humidity
outside. We had one day of sunshine this week and that was great. I want more.
We woke up and poured our coffee Friday morning and when I was about half
through with my coffee, Kathi decided she wanted to get the rest of our laundry
done. We did everything but my shirts and her tops on Wednesday, but she wanted
to change the sheets, so we threw them in the laundry mix. Good for me, I like
clean clothes and I could always finish my coffee later. This time we went to a
laundromat in Bacliff that has good equipment.
While waiting on the laundry, I continued my current reading
material, “Invisible.” The story is getting better. Finally, it appeared the
FBI might actually catch the invisible serial killer/arsonist. I have been
writing more than usual lately and it seems that finishing the book is taking a
long time.
The fresh air was invigorating and when we got home Kathi made
my day by serving her world-famous homemade tacos for lunch. As usual, they
were great and I ate way more than my fair share. I love eating here. She spent
the afternoon cooking more things to put in the freezer to take to our sons.
Saturday was another cold, windy day with no sunshine. I
spent the morning writing and for lunch we drove to the Monument Inn. We
noticed Tookie’s Seafood parking lot was full as we passed by about 1:00 pm, so
we knew the seafood eaters were out in force on Saturday afternoon. We expected
the crowds to dissipate before we got to the Monument Inn. We were wrong – it was
crowded, but we got a table away from the window with little delay.
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Monument Inn sign |
We shared a shrimp cocktail and a fisherman’s platter again.
That is the same meal for three visits in a row to Monument Inn. I assume Kathi
enjoys it as much as I do.
When we pulled into the Monument Inn parking lot, there was
a huge blue container ship moving up the channel. We had never seen a container
ship that size. In fact, Kathi said the only ship she had seen that was bigger
was one of the Carnival cruise ships. I wish I could have gotten pictures, but
there was too much vehicle and pedestrian traffic in the parking lot. Before I
could park the ship was around the bend. Most of the ships and barges we see are
at most 40’ tall above the water line. That big blue was about 80’ above the
water line.
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I took this picture several months ago. The prow of the blue ship was as tall as the bridge house on this Stolt ship. |
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Refinery art on a tank alongside the road on Independence Parkway |
I am thinking sunshine and no hang over on Monday.
cool
ReplyDeleteThanks for reading my blog, Tom I hope yoou enjoy the content.
ReplyDeleteWe talked about it. I do not think I have eaten at the monument Inn since I was about eight years old. I did not even know it was still there
ReplyDeleteThanks for reading, AJ.
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