More Rain and Cold in Texas

Still not able to post pictures with any blogs -- not that I have been out to take any for this posting, unless you wanted to see grey clouds and water running down the middle of the concrete roads here at Pioneer Beach RV park.  I went to the first pot luck dinner last night since my arrival here in mid December and saw a different style of serving it up -- I had taken a pot of Pinto beans with ham and rice, chopped peppers and some hashed browns thrown in (more of a stew) with a dozen freshly baked corn bread muffins.  Forgot to mention that the stew had some Port wine added in the last couple hours of cooking too -- to fight the chilliness and dampness down here (Boy!  Does Florida look ever so much better now -- even at their outrageous prices.)

Well, at this campground, they have the people take a seat somewhere around a large rectangle made of tables and chairs with their dish of food placed in front of them.  They introduced any new campers who were attending their first pot luck dinner and I, of course, was one of the half dozen or so they introduced.  Then, instructions were given to stand with plates in hand and put your right hand on the table and walk to your left around the tables serving yourself as you go.  The rectangle was broken in half at the longer sides so that people could sit on the inside too and everyone worked around the half of the rectangle they were seated at until they ended up back where they started.  After that the platters or dishes of food were placed at two tables in the center of the rectangle so that people could go back for seconds (or whatever they couldn't fit on their plate during their trip around the tables).

So, I got to meet three new couples (all new to the pot luck dinner too like myself) and the first two couples to my left were from Colorado -- around the Lamar area.  The new couple to my right were from the St. Louis, Missouri area.  There must have been nearly 150 people at the dinner and quite a selection of food to choose from -- many bean type dishes so I will think of something different for the next dinner in two weeks.

After the dinner, most everyone stayed and cleaned up and rearranged the tables back to where they had started and the majority of people stayed to play "Dime Bingo" for the next hour and a half (including myself).  A fun evening and my toes even thawed out enough before heading back to the RV around 8:30 -- where I had play time with Tiger and Molly before heading to the chilly bedroom.

Still rainy and cold again today so, not likely to use up the left over bait shrimp still in the cooler of the Jeep -- just hope the smell doesn't get unbearable in the Jeep.  No breaks in the cloud cover and the kitties are napping for now so, may head to the ferry and the Walmart beyond -- check the smell and decide whether to chuck the shrimp at the seawall (or throw them in on a hook, one-at-a-time).