Nov. 9:

Thursday we spent some time with mineral spirits and rags cleaning off all the caulking around the trailer. The factory must have set it outside in a dust storm before the caulking dried. It's been dirty since we took delivery on it. While at the factory this past September, they told us how to clean it up so it's all pretty much back to white again.

Then we drove to the beach to see if we could detect any hurricane damage. Since both hurricanes split around Corpus Christi, there was none that we could see. Apparently a couple of the piers were lost due to some wind and mostly high tides but we didn't get that far north to see anything.



These pictures and sounds are from Mustang Island. We hadn't been there when the waves were that loud and the wind that high. It was a noisy afternoon.

Friday was a beautiful night for football. The temperature was in the 70's and palm trees were gently blowing in the wind. The local refinery was glowing just across the interstate like a small city. We both took sweatshirts (Larry in shorts)and walked across the street to attend the district 26 5A playoff. A team from south of San Antonio, Converse Judson, played Corpus Christi's best, Carroll. When we left in the third quarter, the San Antonio team was up by about 30 points. There was soooo much to see that I didn't get to see some of the game. We sat on the visitor's side because their ticket line was smaller. The home fans and visitors are divided by a chain link fence which begs the question "Why?". The home team had their band and what looked like the New York Radio City Rockettes cheering squad. They had pom poms and they all moved in sync with the band. The visitors brought a semi loaded with their band equipment. When half of the lights went out for about 30 minutes in the 2nd quarter, it sounded like a real battle of the bands. They finally figured out that they could play one at a time and actually be understood.

Saturday we drove west about 12 miles to attend a ham fest. While there, we attended a lecture on switching from analog to digital TV (I read NOAA fliers); and another one presented by the National Weather Service on hurricanes.

Came back from the ham fest and went swimming. The temperature was about 74 degrees and the pool was about 80ish. Not too bad as long as you stayed out of the slight breeze that came around every now and then. Larry even got in the hot tub. I didn't want to get heated up to 100 degrees and then step out into 70 degree air. I just sat in the sun and dried off.

I have also noticed that the locust are still in full voice down here. I even saw a locust shell today. And the ants are everywhere. We put down stuff around the tires and front jacks and sprayed the electrical cord and water hose to try to keep them out, but there are lots of them to fight. There was a whole trail of the larger leaf cutter ants but after I swept them off the patio, they haven't come back. There are smaller black and red ants and some of these are fire ants. We definitely want to keep them outside.

Today we watched football (can't get KC down here but always get Houston and Dallas) and took a couple of walks. Tuesday we'll be going to one or two employment agencies to see if thay can get us some temporary work while we're here.