Temps are heating up again. Last nights low was 69 and today's high was 84. Tomorrow is forecast to be warmer. I sat outside in the afternoon but even with the breeze it was almost to hot.
We don't like the heat but several things are keeping us from heading north to where it is cooler. We love attending the Cowboy Church & Bible Study. We like the campground. With the Camper Pass we bought its free for us to stay here until the 15th. An Inspector is coming Thursday morning to inspect the coach for the new Service Contract we are trying to buy.
There is an 8:30 Bible Study at this campground on Mondays. We went and found out that it is a Women's Bible Study, I left and got in a mile walk around the campground. At 10:00 on Monday's there is an informational meeting. It lasted about an hour. We were pleasantly surprised when the meeting started off with the Pledge of Allegiance and then a prayer.
After the meeting we drove over Port Isabel and had lunch at Pirates Landing. On the way over we drove by a wind farm. I counted 33 windmills, the blades on 14 of them weren't turning. Lunch was every bit as good as it was when we were there several weeks ago. We didn't bother crossing the bridge to South Padre Island, we were there several weeks ago and didn't want to deal with the Spring Break crowd this trip.
There is a "pirate ship" at the end of the pier.
We didn't walk out to look at it.
The restaurant.
Imagine our surprise when we had to stand in line for a table, because the restaurant was FULL of kids. They were in groups of about a dozen. Red shirts to the left, blue shirts to the right.
I think the groups down this way had green shirts and orange shirts.
Kathy heard someone say that H.E.B., a big grocery store chain, paid for the kids meals.
We both ordered the same entrée we did the last time. Kathy's was some type of shrimp salad and I had a Dirty Dave's roast beef sandwich, with grilled onions & peppers & cheese, its really good. It comes with "onion fries", which are also good.
As we were leaving I noticed a UFO in the sky above the corner of the restaurant.
Enlargement.
We hung around awhile waiting for an F22 to come by and shoot it down with a $400,000 missile, but it didn't happen.
Then it was back home. Kathy took a nap and I sat outside and read. She went for a dip in the pool when she got up. I've got a nasty quarter size sore on my left arm so I'm staying out of the pool. Later I went to the Fitness Center for awhile.
On my way back to the coach I again noticed the flickering palm tree behind us. We noticed it last night. I forgot to look at the "leaves" during the day today. I think they must be shiny and reflect the light from the orange sodium vapor street light across the street from the tree. It looks like the leaves are smoldering, ready to burst into flame.
It was a nice day. Thank you Lord.
A passage from my New Testament reading has held my attention for a couple of days. 2 Peter 1:3 (NLT) As we know Jesus better, his divine power gives us everything we need for living a godly life. He has called us to receive his own glory and goodness! [4] And by that same mighty power, he has given us all of his rich and wonderful promises. He has promised that you will escape the decadence all around you caused by evil desires and that you will share in his divine nature. [5] So make every effort to apply the benefits of these promises to your life. Then your faith will produce a life of moral excellence. A life of moral excellence leads to knowing God better. [6] Knowing God leads to self-control. Self-control leads to patient endurance, and patient endurance leads to godliness. [7] Godliness leads to love for other Christians, and finally you will grow to have genuine love for everyone. [8] The more you grow like this, the more you will become productive and useful in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. [9] But those who fail to develop these virtues are blind or, at least, very shortsighted. They have already forgotten that God has cleansed them from their old life of sin.
The first time I read it I thought, "I'm not sure how far along the list I am but I am sure that I've haven't mastered even the loving all Christians yet, let along loving all non-Christians." Hopefully I am making progress towards "developing" these virtues.
Sunday morning when the Pastor Chris asked if anyone wanted to share a blessing a booming voice from somewhere behind us shouted out his blessing, "I'm a blood bought, born again, spirit filled child of the living God." Chris's response was, "If anyone here doesn't know what he is talking about come see me after the service." It is comforting to know that even though I fall far short of the goal set for me in the above Scripture I can also lay claim to being a growing blood bought, born again, spirit filled child of the living God, a patient God who loves me more than I can comprehend.
God is good. I pray that He blesses you and yours.
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