Happy 2016!!

So Happy New Year!!  Here comes 2016 and I have found a resolution I can live with this year.  I have not made many resolutions over the years because by the second week of the year, I was a resolution failure! Not this year!!  Oh and tamales!!  I'm going to add tamales too - cheese & chicken & pork & beef and cheese and black bean & ETC.

 

 

We are adjusting to Galveston or it to us and we really like it here.  We went to the Farmer's Market and Katie's again this Sunday.  This week was not so good for shopping.  Mike discovered that when you buy snapper at Katie's, you don't want it fileted.  Since the snapper is already gutted, we will just bring them home and filet them as the cost doubles if they do it.  You pay for total fish weight and not just the filets.  The Farmer's Market was sparse and neither the tomato lady nor the baker was there so we turned around and went to Kroger....on a Sunday...on a holiday weekend.  Yep, mid-week shopping at Kroger from now on.  Good news is I now have a senior discount flagged on my Kroger card.  Oh yeah!! I ask for those discounts EVERYWHERE these days!!!

 



Mike found a jigsaw puzzle of 100 dogs and a cat in a drawer under the TV.  He has put it together in three days.  I'm a drive-by puzzler and stop by to find a few pieces or build most of one dog before going off to read my book or play scrabble with Liz and Carol.  I get too frustrated to stay at it but he can sit for hours and concentrate. 

We were VERY lucky with the storms through Texas this weekend.  All of the tornadoes and snow stayed north and west of us.  While the seas were rough and the red flags were flying, our weather was warm - into the high 70's & low 80's.  Then the cold front arrived Sunday afternoon and we are now in the mid to high 50's for the next week.  Yesterday the sea looked like glass and the high winds disappeared.  When I booked us into Galveston, I thought the sea would look like it does in Cancun or Baja California but it doesn't.  Today it is steel gray with a deeper gray shade on the horizon.  There is a lot of sand churned up so near shore it looks almost beige.  They are still catching good sized fish on the Galveston Fishing Pier so I guess the fish don't care about our cold snap.

Today we purchased Mardi Gras tickets for us and cousin Tawn.  We are going to a balcony party on February 6th to enjoy the parades and concerts here in Galveston.  This island hosts the second largest Mardi Gras festival in the US, just behind New Orleans.

Happy New Year to everyone!!  Hope 2016 is exactly what you've dreamed of it being.