Sandpipers Resort

 

Edinburg, Texas.  It was a long way to go, but it’s a good place to be.

 

When we left Junction this morning, I put gas in the car while Judy went inside to buy a bag of ice for the ice chest.  The clerk asked her “Small or Large?”.  Judy answered “Small”.  It’s not a very big ice chest.  The clerk charged her $1.99 and Judy went outside to grab the bag.  There were only 10 pound bags.  Is a 10 pound bag Large or Small?  Judy carried one back inside to ask.  The answer:  “They’re all one size”.  There were certainly more questions we could have asked, but we chose to drive on instead.

 

On our drive across North Central Texas we passed thousands of windmills.  They used to be a novelty.  Now there are so many they’re kind of annoying.  When I look at them though, I see all that oil and coal fired smoke that’s not in the air.  The annoyance fades.  I’ve heard the argument that it takes more energy to construct and install a windmill than the windmill produces over its lifetime.  I looked it up on Snopes to find that argument was disproved way early on, but it persists in the minds of windmill opponents.  I think I’ll believe Snopes instead of Fox News on that one.  Windmills are apparently a serious source of electricity now.

 

The Jeep turned 100,000 miles today.

 

Our first day back to the house; we ran straight into a mystery:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFbwSwIFzxg