Trying a new cocktail tonight. It's holiday week; don't judge me.

[Trueblue Texan]

40. I've been to those COLD-ASSED BEACHES!

Second Beach...Jesus CHRIST! Cold as F!!!! in AUGUST! Yes, they are lovely, but I just cannot abide!

Alki(sp?) cold, but not as miserable as Second. Still. Nothing like the Gulf waters. I'll have to be old enough where I don't even consider going to beaches. Having been raised on Galveston Bay, I seem to actually need these warm waters and the soft, most velvety sand I've ever walked on...it's a good 2 hour drive from my current location, but I need to be able to put my feet in the warm sand of a Gulf beach. Never found a tropical beach anywhere that would sub for it.

Today I had a powerful craving for oysters--hubby found some small ones--my faves--at HEB. I fried them up and was satisfied. (Jesus! $24/pound!) I haven't had them fried at home for several years. Oysters from the Pacific NW are enormous...not like the precious tiny ones from the Gulf. So many things from PNW I long for. So many things from home I need. Coming from generations of commercial fishermen probably ruined me for other locations.