Chaosbutterfly

Made it home today around 1600. I left yesterday from Orlando and stopped again in Pensacola to spend the night at my Aunt’s house again. It is a good way to break up the trip to drop by there. The weather was fine all the way home. You couldn’t ask for better driving conditions.

The stay in Pensacola was great. My Uncle Don had a stash of Texas beer that one of my cousins had given him. So I got to relax with a Shiner Boch and we had some great chili that my Aunt had been working all day on by the time I got in. He’s another expat Texan like my dad, living in Florida and he really likes his Texas alcohol. My dad however, has a taste for Texas hill country wine and is always asking me to bootleg him a case from time to time.

Florida is nice, but it was great to get home again. I even found myself counting down the miles on that last stretch of I-10 in Louisiana to the Sabine. It was great to see those flags flying at the border and really great to be back aboard my boat again.

I found when I got home two boxes of MRE’s someone had apparently had left over from Ike wanted to get rid of down at the dumpsters when I got home. I popped one box into a dock cart and loaded the rest of my stuff from the trip on top. There must be a week or two worth of MRE’s in that one box alone. I left the other box up there so I wouldn’t be a complete hog. They include  Jambalaya, some chili without beans, and a bunch of other flavors. Looks like a menu specially designed with SE Texans in mind. The  Jambalaya was surprisingly awesome. After Ike I only was able to get the Care Package type MRE’s. They were not the real military issue MRE’s like these. They are listed as having between 1500 to 1800 calories each. It was too much food for me, I’m still working on the pound cake. If I only ate one MRE and only that MRE a day and I would lose weight.