Return to Tilden TX

We're back in Tilden at the same post we had before taking our break on Mustang Island. Yes, it's somewhat remote, clearly off-the-grid, but a pleasant place to be. We'll be here for the next 8 months.

One last look at the Gulf of Mexico from Mustang Island beach. Won't be back here until Jan. 2014.

Fresh seaweed on the beach. Our gnome saying farewell to the beach.

Pat and our gnome.

 Our summer garden at Tilden. It's all containerized and/or raised bed and went from seeds to sprouts in only 3 days. The tomatoes are pre-starts.

 

Molly and Annie usually get along this well.

Wild turkeys are in abundance, as they were last year. This Tom is "hunting".

This guy visits us most nights. So far he's been very well-behaved.

Cardinals, Green Jays, Roadrunners, Doves, are the most prevelant birds at this site. I'm working at getting a photo of a Green Jay. Have you ever seen one?

 

 

It's mostly work for us at this time, and work pretty much means being here. There are no heavy, physical duties. Just logging trucks in and out. As you may recall, we can't ever leave the site together as one of us has to be at the gate at all times. If nothing else, this job has finally gotten Pat to drive our one-ton dually. Not that she likes doing it, but she can and does make a laundry/Wal-Mart run a couple times a month. I'm still trying, with no success, to get her to tow the 5th wheel. I'm not holding my breath until she does.

Time's up - So-long Mustang Island; Hello back-to-work

Can't believe we've been on Mustang Island for over 2-1/2 months, but that's the case. On Wednesday (4-17) we say farewell to Port Aransas and the Gulf of Mexico and head inland to Tilden, and back to work.
These photos reflect some of the more recent highlights of our stay in Port Aransas, Texas.

Annie and Molly sniffing a visitor to our yard at Pioneer Park.

Our visitor was a shy little thing.

Our daughter, Angel and her friend Pete Mogren came to the island to visit for a week. Here they are all fitted out for an outing on the National Seashore of North Padre Island, just south of Mustang Island.

Angel and Pete at the Texas State Aquarium

One of the woodcarvings I did while at Pioneer Park. I call this "possum in the headlights".

Another woodcarving completed while at Pioneer Park. Woodcarving (for Dave) and jewelry/yarn/quilting crafts (for Pat) comprise the main reason for us to stay in this park.

There is a pond/wetland right in the middle of Pioneer Park. Lots of birds visit here daily, and some live here all the time.

Just a few days before leaving Mustang Island we had a cleaning team stop by to wash and wax our RV. Some days there is a salty fog from the Gulf that makes its way over the dunes and engulfs the park. A wash and wax takes care of that stuff.

Some of the woodcarvers at work (play?) in the rec hall at Pioneer Park.

Some weeks earlier we made a couple of trips to Progreso, Mexico for shopping.

At the Grand Opry in Refugio, Texas. It's country music, for sure, but this is where the idea for the 'possum in the headlights came from. Refugio is pronounced Refurrio. Go figure, and good luck learning the language. Near as we can figure there are NO rules.

 

 

That's all for now. We're in packing mode and will be on the road, once again, on Wednesday.