Saturday Junket

S is still in search of a quick Saturday lunch, so today (bc of the sale at Wine World), we went to Johnny Rockets. This was hours ago, and we're still over-full. E had a hot dog that was too big for its bun (a good thing); S had a hamburger that was too small for its bun (bad). The good or the bad depends on whether you're Sandy or Elizabeth, S discovers as she types this: turns out E would rather her hot dog not exceed her bun. It's all about proportion.

On the way home, we toured our neighborhood, traveling north on 393, instead of south toward the beach. Voila! Choctawhatchee Bay--or it turns out, CB's Hogtown Bayou. Here's a bit of blah blah from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection in case you're wondering (as we did--and sort of still do) what is Wetland Mitigation:

A wetland enhancement, restoration, creation and/or preservation project that serves to offset unavoidable wetland impacts is known as wetland mitigation or compensatory mitigation. The ecological benefits of a mitigation project should compensate for the functional loss resulting from the permitted wetland impact. Compensatory mitigation activities may include, but are not limited to, onsite mitigation, offsite mitigation, offsite regional mitigation, and the purchase of mitigation credits from permitted mitigation banks.

Google maps will give you a great view of Hogtown Bayou and the myriad of stinky sloughs that have been cut into it--toward, we suppose, future development. Perhaps it's worth noting that while we saw no hogs this trip, we did see a pair of snowy egrets and a couple of hunting hounds.

E says "the best things were those pots," by which she means the cool galvanized ones we espied at an ultra-moderne shopping development off of north 393. Where, it turns out, a fab Designer Accessories store, craft, has relocated. As has the local weekly rag, The Sun. Not much else there yet, and nothing was open. Can this joint make a go of it?

We also drove past the Mosquito Control of SoWal County and the Walton County Business Center (not busy at all). On the way home we stopped briefly in the parking lot of Gulf Place and while E dashed into Patchouli's (moving to upper-scale Rosemary Beach and having a closeout sale), S took a few pix of the Wine Tasting Festival, thinking all the while that she wished she had bought stock in the company that makes those collapsible tent-like objects long since.