Monthly Archives: August 2014
And the Meat DOESN”T Fall Off the Bone . . .
After our coffee and some of Miss Terry’s going-away homemade bread for breakfast, I started making a couple of phone calls. First up was the Galveston Bay RV Park to get our reservation in for this November. We’ve spent the winter there for the last six years, and see no reason to change. Except maybe for the cost.
The waterfront sites that we like, run about $525 per month plus another $100 for electric. Expensive, yes. But then we have views like this out our windshield.
The cheaper alternative would be to orbit back and forth between the Colorado River and Lake Conroe Thousand Trails parks, moving every two weeks. This would run us $240 per month, but would be a pain in the butt, and we’d be further from the kids.
So for right now it’s Galveston Bay.
My next call was to Jamie with Gate Guard Services. Jamie was our supervisor the first two years we gate guarded down in the Whitsett area. But now he’s over in the east Texas / north Texas area, and also Louisiana. So since we’ve been thinking about trying a different location this year, hooking up with Jamie was perfect.
I told him we would be available after the 25th of August, and he was pretty sure he would have something for us up in the Huntsville/Madisonville area north of Houston. It would be nice to be a little closer to civilization this year. We’ll see.
We headed out for Pensacola about 1pm for lunch and some shopping. Our first stop was a perennial favorite of ours, Sonny’s BBQ.
Jan and I go way back with Sonny’s. It was one of the first places we had dinner together when we started dating after we met down in Titusville, FL in 1967. And this one in Pensacola is a regular stop when we’re in the area.
Jan had her usual Big Deal Pulled Pork Sandwich with the BBQ Baked Beans and Homemade Mac N Cheese, while I went with my usual Pork Three Ways with BBQ Baked Beans, Corn on the Cob and two slices of Garlic Texas Toast.
The Pork Three Ways consists of Ribs, Pulled Pork, and Sliced Pork, all delicious. And the way it works out, I eat the Ribs and the sides, and then take the toast, pulled pork, and sliced pork home for later. Along with a to-go order of a side of the BBQ Beans, we’ve got another meal for both of us.
And Sonny’s Ribs are only slow-smoked, and are not pre-cooked or par-boiled first. This means they DON’T fall of the bone. And they shouldn’t. There should be some bite, some texture, to the meat.
Now that’s a meaty, tasty rib.
The other thing Sonny’s does right is their Iced Tea glasses. None of these dinky 16 oz. glasses, that after the ice is added, you get about a cup of actual tea.
No, these are big, honking 36 oz. glasses. (I checked the size on the bottom)
Leaving Sonny’s, our next stop was Artesana, a unique gift shop we’ve been visiting since before we moved to Texas from Alabama in 1978.
They have a little bit of everything, and Jan always finds something she wants. Except this time. Don’t know why, but she walked out empty-handed. Cheaper for me, though.
After a stop at Sam’s Club for some bulk stuff, we headed home via US98 through Foley, rather than the beach road like our trip over. Coming through Foley, we stopped off at Dodge’s to get gas for the truck and scope out rig access for diesel when we leave here this Friday. At $3.53 a gallon, their diesel is the cheapest around.
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Thought for the Day:
They say Laughter is the Best Medicine . . . Unless You Have Diarrhea.
Sun Set, Moon Rise . . .
Jan and I want to thank everyone for their comments on our roller coaster photo that ended up on Yahoo. It was really amazing that it popped up like this 5 years later. I guess they’re right.
Nothing ever disappears from the Internet.
Since we don’t have AC in our truck, and won’t until we get back to Houston, we’ve been staying home until it cools off later in the afternoon so today we waited until about 4 pm before leaving the rig.
Our first destination was the Home Depot up in Foley behind the Lambert’s Throwed Rolls. The small setscrew that holds the handle on came out of our American Standard lavatory faucet. Checking online, the Home Deport website shows they have several different paks of setscrews, with and without a hex wrench. But despite what the website says, the store said they are online order only.
Just what I want to do. Wait for a week to fix the faucet. I’ll check tomorrow at an Ace Hardware.
Coming back to Gulf Shores, we stopped off at another favorite place, King Neptune’s Seafood. We always eat here once or twice every visit, but this is actually the first time we’ve had supper there. Normally it’s a lunch place for us, with their great specials.
We each started off with a cup of their Corn and Crab Bisque. We’ve never tried this before, but we’ll certainly have it again.
Next up, we both went with one of their Po-Boys. Jan had the the Shrimp and Oyster version,
while I went with the Flounder item.
This is the second time I’ve had Flounder since we’ve been here, and I’d forgotten how good it is. It seems most of the time, I’m usually eating catfish. So this is a nice change.
But what’s really amazing is how something so tasty can come from something so ugly. And strange.
See, that’s ugly.
And the strange part is that the Flounder doesn’t have sides, only a top and a bottom. It’s a flatfish that lives on the bottom and burrows into the sand to hide. But the really strange part is the fact that one of the Flounder’s eyes moves from the bottom side to the top side of its body as it grows up, leaving it with two eyes side by side.
So, ugly but tasty.
About 7 we drove down to the Main Street Parking area to sit and watch the sun go down and Supermoon come up. And we got good views of both.
We finally gave it up as the moon started to disappear into the overcast.
Tomorrow we’ll probably head over to Pensacola to have lunch at Sonny’s BBQ and do some shopping.
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Thought for the Day:
“I’m just glad it’ll be Clark Gable who’s falling on his face and not Gary Cooper.” – Gary Cooper on his decision not to take the leading role in “Gone With The Wind”
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