Just Us: First Beach Picnic; A Hitchcock Tribute

Sunday, March 22, 2015

First Beach Picnic; A Hitchcock Tribute

Tony felt the same way I did in terms of our last post. Life has been flashing by us, so we decided to slow it down a bit and we headed to the beach for our first beach picnic. It was a chilly day, with bits of sun. The wind made it one of those, "why did I bother fixing my hair" days--it was breezy and even with my heavy poncho on, I was cold. But, we had lots of fun and laughed a lot. We saw a school of dolphins, shrimp boats in the distance and all kinds of birds

Oh boy, were there birds.

Birds are like ants at a picnic. When you are on the ground, the ants invade your space to get your food....when you are on the beach....it's the birds.

We had croissants, cheese and grapes and a lot of hungry birds. As soon as they saw the food, they started to walk toward the blanket, in a "circling the wagons" kind of way.

After the beach, it was time for our first cornhole championship. I think playing golf has given Tony some sort of cornhole edge, because he beat me in all three games. But, I will rebound another day.

Ah, you can't have a picnic without wine...and plastic wine glasses!

Hmmm...a few birds scope out our food.

A few more get closer....

Tony takes "the bait" and starts to feed them.

Let the dive bombing begin...they started coming in fast and low.

Really low!

A mid air collision over a grape

Tony chats with one of our picnic dinner guests

INCOMING.....see that croissant on my plate....guess who ate it? Hint, it wasn't me.

Now there's a man who has no fear of bird poop

Catching treats in mid air!

Tony Swegle....a friend to man, dogs and now birds...

And this is how they repay him! On my chair, no less!

And so, we head home, to a new view. See the leaning tree and green box? One of the construction drivers backed into both. The green box is electrical, the area lost power for awhile!