Fit to be Thaied

This week we had an unfortunate encounter with nature. At the beach, ready to kick it for a while to enjoy the long view, we were attacked by biting black flies. Sandy killed 25 on her legs in 5 minutes or less--but there were still 25 more! Turns out, this is a feature of life at the beach in October. Otherwise it was a calm cool gorgeous day, clear enough to see just how much sand Ike left for us.

We explored another part of our neighborhood, Musset Bayou, just up the road from Cafe Provence (where they're now serving lunch...). This bayou is a pretty large arm of the Choctawhatchee bay, and draining from it is the Hogtown Bayou we enountered on our last driving excursion. Much more developed than the zone up 393, the waterfront here sports some huge piles, replete with subtantial gates--but there are also little bungalows (maybe for the servants).

The week's eating adventure was a trip to Thai Delights "in the heart of old Destin." We ordered up our litmus tests: the chicken satay was quite delicious, but otherwise it was a don't do again. We intended to go to the Thai Elephant, but were swayed by the 5 apples a reviewer awarded Thai Delights. A reviewer on crack! S had a hard time even tasting her food bc there were a couple of mirrors bolted to the wall and both were crooked!

The more interesting adventures in eating were the ones we prepared ourselves. Elizabeth got brave and toted home 2 rock lobster tails from the fishmonger and grilled them puppies up. Lovely. And S, remembering her grandmother Huss, took it in her head to make "donuts" out of packaged refrigerator bisquits, fry them up in the electric skillet, then shake them up in a bag of cinnamon and sugar. Tasty, but not up to Donut Hole standards by a long shot. Tonight we're making a breakfast pizza as a trial run for the impending visit of T-Man & Pepper. The dough is proofing in the oven as we type.

Hey, where's MY lobster?

You betcha we watched the Palin/Biden debate and had a heckofa good time: now we're trying to be more mavericky (thank you Tina Fey) in everything we do. We're in the middle of watching Michael Moore's Slacker Uprising, a flik he cleverly gave away for free to the Tivo Nation (and which can be downloaded for free at http://www.slackeruprising.com/). Cool performaces by Steve Erle and Robert Orrall/Monkey Bowl so far.





Finally finally finally the master bathroom tiling project is DONE. Stay tuned for reports on Ronald and Leidy's adventures installing new ridge caps, starting tomorrow, can't wait.