Luxury Returns

It’s a few degrees cooler up here, but still overcast and showery. Evidently February is the wet month.

As you may recall, when we set-up at the previous site we had a couple of problems due to water freezing over the winter. One of the victims was the pull-out spray head on the kitchen sink. For the last 5 weeks we have been using just the hose that used to feed the spray head. This worked OK as long as you remembered not to turn the tap on fully, if you did the hose would whip around sending water everywhere. Although the spray head was replaced under warranty (!) there was a mess up with the shipping. The spray head finally arrived and has now been fitted. Luxury, we have controllable water in the kitchen.

This afternoon we headed out to explore the local area, Lyn has been suffering severe withdrawal symptoms as she hasn’t been to a JoAnn fabrics store this year. Today we just happened to visit JoAnn fabrics.

After that we headed out to an RV store as I needed a new hose coupler for the sewer pipe (I wont go into the not so pleasant details). While we were in the store we met our next door neighbours from the camp ground. We had seen them around, but had not spoken to them. They live in Ontario about 120 miles from Ottawa, and the wife is originally from Glasgow!

Once I had the sewer pipe fixed we took a walk down to the beach, about 50 yards away. There are a number of birds on the water, there were different species of herons and egrets as well as some ducks. From the beach you can see across the bay of Corpus Christi towards the downtown area. There are also a number of oil refineries around the coast line, as Corpus Christi is on the Gulf of Mexico allowing tanker access. Quite often they would light off some of the gas that must be a by-product of the refining process and there are giant orange flames coming from some of the chimneys.