Posted: under Party Hearty Galvez.
Tropical refreshment!
So today I went to the liquor store.
Two, actually.
Not to load up, you understand. Just to find the exact ingredients for a very special drink to properly commemorate this very special day.
And what was so special about today, you ask?
Well, today was none other than that magical, long-awaited day when one enormous, filthy, flea-bitten, nasty, and utterly dead and awful albatross was finally cut, and cleanly so, from around the neck of a certain semi-ancient mariner. Read the rest of this entry »
Sep 18 2009
Posted: under Weather Galvez.
One year ago today, in the early morning hours, Hurricane Ike came ashore in Galveston.
I couldn’t let the day pass without noting its significance.
However, I decided, as a new Galvestonian, to take a page from the playbook of the old Galvestonians, and not dwell upon the past, but look instead to the future.
And the future is bright for Galveston. We make our future bright!
So pull up a beach chair, wriggle your toes in the sand, slice some brie for a cracker, pop the top on a favorite cool beverage.
The water’s perfect and there’s no better place to be than at the water’s edge on this, the perfect day.
Sep 13 2009
