I'm really late today. I sure miss the beach and Ray's company.

Yesterday was warmer and we might have put our feet in the water if we had stayed later. We took a walk and packed up, playing a couple Spider games on the way. I won! So did Ray...

We went to eat at Bubba's on our way home. It's good Southern seafood. We've eaten there a couple of times with family--made me miss my Mom some more...I decided it wasn't that great. It is a big place, with a really nice view of the marsh. The fried shrimp in my po-boy were really good and so were Ray's scallops. The salad had been in the cooler a bit. I think they specialize in running a huge restaurant really quickly, so a few things suffer. I would say the dressing was bottled, probably. Most people don't mind these sorts of things. The dessert we got was chocolate creme brulee. Chocolatey and delicious, but not quite authentic.

this was a picture of an armadillo, back near the sandy patch

Then we drove and I knitted. We stopped at a State Park Ray had found, about an hour further on. It was an old mill and we walked for about an hour. It made a good break. It was still a long way home. We stopped at a Subway in Sparta for a little something. We had salads. We were home by 8:30, time to get a little bit settled before bed.