Saturday Morning, May 17, from the beach on Bolivar...

I am getting the hang of this new "blogging world," and thus far, am enjoying it immensely. So good to hear from those of you who have logged on and read my posts. I especially appreciate those of you who have commented on one story or another. The pictures are fun and help to keep us up to date.

I am notified each time there is a "comment" made on my blog, so looking forward to hearing from more of you guys.

Luke and Trish - Loved the new pics of car show and dance you sent today! Millie - Good to hear from you, too, and Nelda, as always, good to catch up! Good luck on those diets and I'm excited about your coming trip. Tell Michael Happy 50th! It won't hurt him at all.

Cloudy grey skies today over the Gulf, but pleasantly cool for this time of the year. The water is as still as can be and looks like a giant mirror off the back deck. There's about ten ships at anchor waiting to be escorted by pilot ships into the Ship Channel or on to Galveston and Houston. This is not uncommon with traffic so heavy attempting to get products and services into port. Occasionally we see a giant oil rig being towed in for repairs or additions. Lots of drilling and exploring all over Texas just now and especially in the Gulf waters.

Fishing hasn't hit hard yet, although Ted and I caught about 30 ocean cats day before yesterday.

Life is good — filled with love and laughter and a real sense of peace. Retirement is wonderful. I love not having set schedules moderating my every action and I'm learning to sleep later each day it seems.

Will be posting more of my columns in the near future.

Let me know what you're interested in reading most.

Until the page turns,
Brenda

Hello and welcome to my blog...

My sister in law has been encouraging me to post a blog for months, and now that I have semi-retired, I am following through with her suggestion.  I write for a living, so you might think the last thing I would want to do is to write more words, but here I am, writing away.  I have enjoyed a life-long fascination with words from my earliest school days until now.

If I am not writing them, I am reading them.  Just finished the last of James Patterson's novels, including the Women's Murder Club series, all of the Alex Cross mysteries, and his new series on the bird children.  I also read and review books for the newspaper I work for out of Beaumont, The Examiner.  Great little read if you have the time and inclination.

My best friend since third grade, Ginger Doster, wrote yesterday and recommended a new book by Ann Rule, "Too Late to Say Goodbye," which I've ordered and will start on when it arrives.  From time to time, I will post reviews on my blog and hope you'll be interested in reading them.

I'm also involved in doing a travel series "Roads Less Traveled" and will post those from time to time as well.  First article is on the fun Arkansas Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro, which we visited on our recent swing through Tennessee, Arkansas and Louisiana on our way back home to the Gulf Coast.

As I type on my faithful Mac, I am looking out the back deck window at the rolling and churning Gulf of Mexico, which is my backyard.  There's no place like it and we love living here on the coast.  Ted, my husband, and I fished yesterday afternoon out by the North Jetty and I am pleased to report that I caught the first fish and the largest number of fish.  We hit a bed of ocean cats and must have landed 28-30 in just a few minutes.  What fun!

We have contests determining who catches the first fish, largest fish, most unusual and the largest number each time out in the Gulf. 

 

Until next time,

Brenda