It’s hard to get it just right

 

The time change to daylight saving time is unavoidable (in Texas).  Our job is to accommodate it as best we can.  Accommodation involves adjusting numerous clocks forward, and leaving the clocks alone that will adjust automatically.  If there is an alarm set for the next morning, best be correct on whether the alarm clock adjusts by itself or not.  So, priding myself on remembering which clocks to adjust, and which clocks to leave alone, we went right to sleep last night.  The alarm went off this morning and we both got up, but something didn’t feel right.  I had adjusted the trusty old alarm clock forward.  The trusty old alarm clock, however, was smarter than I remembered it to be, so it got adjusted twice!  I adjusted it the night before, and it adjusted itself in the middle of the night.  We were up and about at five o’clock in the morning when we actually meant to get up at six.  Having figured that out, I adjusted the alarm clock back to where it should be and we both went back to sleep for another hour.  Now we’ve got it just right; except for all the clocks and timers we haven’t thought to adjust yet, but I’m sure we’ll get them all just right too, at least by the time we start adjusting everything back to standard time.

 

Meanwhile, the weather is just right.  It’s down out of the nineties with nothing but seventies and eighties for the foreseeable future.  Weather crisis resolved.

 

For our Sunday driveabout, that we got up at five/six am for, we went to Padre Island National Seashore.

Padre Island National Seashore Map

 

The first five miles of beach are open to all traffic and beachgoers.  We drove well past the five mile marker and four-wheel drive only sign before we turned around.  We can’t just drive as far as the beach goes before we turn around, because the beach goes sixty miles until it is interrupted by Mansfield Channel.  A round trip of a hundred twenty miles at twenty miles an hour is an all-day undertaking.

 

So we had a nice drive on the beach.  We got out and got our feet wet.

 

  Henry and I got to run barefoot on the beach.

 

  We were off the sand and on to Snoopy’s by lunch.

 

Fish and shrimp combo.

 

We finished up beach driving (and birding) at Port Aransas, took the ferry across to Aransas Pass,

 

 

…looped around to Indian Point Park,

Indian Point Park Map

 

…stopped in Robstown for dinner, and made it home just a little after dark.

Route Map

 

An altogether successful day.