Out Of Date Food

Bay City, Texas

Weather: low 48 degrees, high 58 degrees, cloudy skies, misty late in the afternoon

As closely as we watch our clutter and unneeded stuff, we still find things that we no longer need. We decided to go through our grocery cabinets and the refrigerator since the holidays were over in order to make sure we were not hauling stuff around that we didn't need. Guess what? We found several grocery items that had expired on shelf life. How in the world did that happen? Besides toting around unnecessary weight, it was a waste of food and money. We have decided that we'll check the cabinets more often, taking care to not let food go to waste again. Now, if we decide we no longer want something because our tastes have changed, that's one thing. Letting food go bad because we don't keep track of what we have is unacceptable.

When Terri was here, she received a gift that was too big to take home on the airplane. Today, I took the gift and an item that I wanted to return to Amazon and mailed them. Since I was feeling good about what we had already accomplished for the day, I decided to move the recliners around so they will be used equally, rather than wearing one or the other out. While I was at it, I changed out the chair we use for the desk. That chair is the same as the ones we have at the dining table. Eventually, we plan to find a computer chair that will be more comfortable than the dining chair.

Once we had everything done that we wanted to do today, we decided to take a ride down to Palacios to see what changes had taken place down there. Here's a picture of the bay. Notice how cloudy the sky is.

Several new houses are being built, but we noticed that several houses on the bay that have been for sale for the last year are still not sold. I understand that water frontage and water views will cost more money, but some of the prices seem out of line to us.

Here's a picture of part of the shrimp fleet based at Palacios. There seems to be a lot of winter Texans staying in the local Palacios RV parks. For the ones who like seafood and fishing, this area must seem like paradise. Some of them can step out of their RVs and throw a line in the water of the bay, and the shrimp boats sell fresh seafood. To top it off, the area is quiet, with a pace of life that is unhurried. If Lori wasn't living here, we would probably be in Palacios. Just think, no trains.

One of the birds we saw today (along with a large bunch of snow geese and Canadian geese) was this long billed curlew. At least that's what we think it is. According to the information I found on it, this bird was almost hunted into extinction. I never realized these birds were hunted. Another little tidbit of information people can probably live without is that a common name for these birds was candlestick, and Candlestick Park in San Francisco was named for the bird.

Now that everyone has been given some useless information for the day,

More later, be safe.

Today's Town - Palacios, Texas: Shrimp Capital Of Texas

Not all who wander are lost.