Friday, March 15, 2024

alligators...of course

 I followed along with Mr. b and my brother golfing the other day...

you will see why soon.


Isn't that chicken golf club cover silly? There is definitely a chicken attraction in our family.




This course was more of a zoo.


And this was the main attraction...




gators! lots of them in lots of sizes!
And stranger than alligators on a golf course was that there were absolutely no warning signs of them.
NONE! ANYWHERE!

~b

Monday, March 11, 2024

ships

 Saturday we went in to Galveston to watch the ships go by in the bay.

When we saw that there were cruise ships docked we decided to return to the bay to watch them head out into the open waters of the Gulf. We thought the ships we watched at first were huge but when the cruise ships went to pass them...well you can see the difference.






There were three cruise ships that all followed each other out of port. That equals a lot of passengers and workers.
It looked like the cruise ships had the right of way, I wonder how they decided that?

~b

Sunday, March 3, 2024

seashells

 We are at our happy place for a month...

the Gulf of Mexico by Galveston.



You don't walk the beach without picking up a pocketful of shells.


First things first...the fish market for supper.


Horses on the beach...what could be more fun?
Well, for me it might be a golf cart.
 

~b

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Texas with beans

 I have a new cast iron pan. My brother knows I love cooking in cast iron. 

It has deep sides making it useful for just about everything.

It works great on my gas stove here in the camper.


Today I made Texas chili in it. It's not quite Texas style as I put beans in mine.
Whoever heard of chili with no beans? And Texas serves beans with just about everything else.

Is it just me or does everything taste better out of a cast iron pan?

~b

Thursday, February 22, 2024

tin cup

 If you are a baby boomer you can probably remember drinking out of a 

rusted beat up tin cup while pumping water from the cistern.

Today I painted a memory.

~b

smoking hot

Yesterday we were in Lockhart Texas...the barbecue capital of Texas.
We had lots of choices of places to eat but we chose Kreuz Market.

In 1875, Jesse Swearington opened the first meat market in Lockhart - selling barbecued pork and beef. In 1900, Charles Kreuz Sr. purchased the store from Swearingen and renamed it Kreuz Market.

  As you can see it takes a lot of wood to keep smoking meat.


They serve your meat on butcher paper which was unique.



We enjoyed pork ribs and sausages. If these places could make potato salad and beans like your mother did I would give them 5 stars. But it was a 4.5 star establishment.

~ b is for barbecue

Wednesday, February 14, 2024

German


Yesterday we went on a road trip to Fredericksburg Texas where we channeled our German roots.
Fredericksburg is wine country so of course it involved a bottle of wine. It is also known for it's peaches so we made it a bottle of peach wine.
Then there was also peach salsa, peach cider, peach chipotle sauce and more. 
Fredericksburg is also where we buy pecan coffee. Needless to say it was a fun day.






We had lunch at a German restaurant...chickenschnitzel, schmorbraten, German potato salad 
and apple strudel.

Dakota Man was pleased to come back with a piece of cypress wood.

~b is for bratwurst