Travels with Howie

February 5,2020

Sometimes when I take a ;picture that I like but the color is off, I just keep altering it and I kinda liked the results on this one.

Last time I forgot to include some things from previous years that are worth mentioning and  remembering.

Janice called me one day and said the cutest little puppy followed her home that morning and she can't find out where it came from.    After she told me over and over how cute it was and that it was lost and no one is claiming it, I agreed to take him home with me and try to find a home for  him.   We called him Mookie after one of Neil's favorite baseball players.
Mookie stayed with us for about 6 months.  We  found a lady who placed homeless dogs and she found him a home with a 9 year old boy and a backyard.  It is an anonymous adoption so we were never able to check on him, but we hope he is happy and well.  He was adorable but very active and a small camper is no place for a spirited puppy.

And I thought i should mention that for his birthday last year  Janice gave Neil this Parasailing experience, which he loved.  I  kinda hope she doesn't love me quite that much to give me a heart stopping experience of hanging many feet above the ocean supported only by a few strings attached to a couple of yards of  silk and being dragged along by a speed boat.  Maybe just a nice bottle of wine....I'm easy to please.

 what is it?

Saw this young man jump out of a car at the park, grab his skateboard and speed across the parking lot to the public bathrooms, but it just made me cringe because he is barefoot.  I would be slowly placing my feet down carefully so the rocks wouldn't hurt and I wouldn't stub my toe. 

 I love fish but when I see them like this where boaters bring their catch in and have it filleted, I feel like it is wrong.

Any chance you couldn't see the sand on the road?

 Onion field. There about 9,500 acres of onions grown in Texas each year

 resulting in about 234 million pounds of onions.  

The  picture above is the foot of a tortoise.. Did you guess it?

I have to tell you  a story:  Couple of years ago we were at Boca  Chica  and Janice was quite away down  the beach from us.  She called Neil and  said she had found this turtle on the beach floundering in the tide so she picked it up and took it in to the water a bit to help get it past the rolling surf, but it kept washing in again.  She did this a couple of times.

So Neil waded in  further and dropped it but still it rolled in .  He did this maybe 3 times.  We thought the turtle must be exhausted by this time so we called the Turtle Rescue place on 

South Padre Island,  The lady asked if the turtle would draw its legs up into his shell..

I said Yes.

She said then it isn't a sea turtle.