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| Spoonbills |
The New Year has come and gone and we are started into 2017
and looking ahead to a new president soon and lots of potential changes in our
country.
I find myself excited but also
wondering how things are really going to work out. Both of us are pleased that we have finally
made it to full retirement and able to enjoy it and with our faith in the Lord,
neither of us are going to worry about what may or may not happen. We plan to live each day at a time with our
eyes on the Lord, enjoy all that He has created for us and remain sensitive to
His direction.
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| Little boy petting the girls |
As I sit here writing this I’m watching small airplanes fly
over. This park is right next to a
county airport and if it wasn’t for the Naval Air Station in Corpus Christi, it
would be fairly quiet as only small planes can land here. BUT the NAS does touch and goes in small
planes for hours on a regular basis here so lots of airplane noise. I’ve heard these are pilots that are training
to land on aircraft carriers. You get
used to it though and it stops before dark.
Sometimes they are so low you can see the pilots!
We have joined in on several activities in the park
including bingo, live music they bring in, dinners, exercise, and Bible study. I’m hoping to get started on beginning line
dancing. We’ve also been roped into
overseeing the setup of tables and chairs for major events. They have a sock hop coming up and they are
going to play the not so newlywed game for Valentine’s Day. The Bible study is mostly women and a great
group. It’s made up of numerous
denominations and wonderful that we can all study God’s word together.
Last week we went to the movies. Rockport has a small theater with 4 screens
and on Tuesday nights the popcorn is free if you bring your own bowl. We just brought a small popcorn bag with us
not knowing what others bring in. I
didn’t want to stand out walking in with a large red plastic bowl and be the
only one. That would have been
awkward. Well as soon as we got out of
the car I saw several others with multiple large bowls in their hands. Almost went home to get my large red plastic
bowl. We enjoyed the movie Sing and the
small theater feel. It just felt safe
and like a family place. 
Today we drove to Goose Island State Park and it’s
really nice. It sits right on Aransas
Bay and you can actually book sites right at the water’s edge. Yep, we book five nights for next year
leading into our stay back at Wilderness Oaks.
They have this enormous live oak tree there that is said to be over
1,000 years old. It’s quite a
sight. They have it fenced off and have put
bracing under some of the limbs to give it stability.
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