I'm not trying to make those of you in the north country upset, but the weather down here was great again today. The overnight low was 43 and today's high was a sunny, breezy 74 degrees. I was wearing shorts with a flannel shirt over a tee. Walking along the street at the flea market, where there was very little breeze, it was warm enough that I thought about taking my flannel shirt off. Later, when I was standing in the shade listening to one of the bands, in a location where the breeze hit me, I was glad for the flannel shirt.
This morning we went to the Harlingen Saturday Market, 4 miles from us. About 6 blocks of a main street in Harlingen are blocked off and filled with flea market and food vendors. There were a lot of people, but not so many that you couldn't move around.
I didn't see this stand sell many Funnel Cakes but they always had a line waiting to buy the spiral potatoes.
Looking east from where we entered.
Looking west from where we entered.
Ladies line dancing to the music from one of the bands. There were 3 live bands along the route. They were far enough apart so that they their music didn't overlap one another.
One of the bands. This is the band I stood and listened to, I enjoyed their oldies music.
I wished I had taken a better photo of the old "hippie" gal singing and the old "hippie" guy playing bass.
My Fitbit said that I walked 1.16 miles while there. It seemed further. It was a "ladies Flea Market". There were only two booths along the entire route that caused me to pause long enough to look at their wares. At one of them someone had turned old pistons into desk lights. At the other someone built different "things" out of metal items (old sprockets, bicycle chains, wrenches, etc).
There were very few places to sit. If we go back I'm going to take a couple of lawn chairs so that I can sit (and eat) and people watch. My tamale and Kathy's shrimp tacos were good.
In the afternoon/evening people from the campground got together for chili and smores. The "chili" was a potluck/pitchin affair. Kathy made my Grandma Ruthie's Potato Soup. Several people came over and complemented here. One guy told her that anytime she made it he would come help her get rid of it. Someone, maybe the campground, furnished the graham crackers, marshmallows and chocolate for the smores. 50-60 people attended. It started at 5PM. Sunset was at 5:54 PM today. By 5:30 the sun was low enough that shorts, a tee & a flannel shirt were barely enough. At 7 PM the temperature is down to 60.
God is good. I pray that He blesses you and yours, He sure has blessed me.
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