Romance and citations on the beach

On my walk this morning, I found two interesting things by the beach. One was this marriage proposal, "Will You Marry Me Smoopy?" and to my right was a group of about 18 people being cited for illegally harvesting mussels from the rocks. It's a full moon/low tide/3day weekend and all. I didn't think it would be polite to photograph them, so I took pictures of the low tide.


Other people are simply above it all.

Our new ( hopefully it will keep out the deer) gate

And this is just a shot I took a while ago


UPDATE!

Later, Moonrabbit and I went for a stroll and garbage pickup along the beach. We scored a decent towel (to be a nice rag for the garage) a nice suede billed baseball cap, and an unopened pint of Bacardi rum!

How cool is this?

Busy day on the railcar restoration front. Became something of an expert on the installation and removal of brake beams (Don't ask) Pulled lots of nail and staples. But the COOL thing I did was use some paint stripper to uncover two of the clerestory windows to discover....

911? There's an alligator attacking my house!

For what it's worth, this is about 300 yards from the rocks rubbed smooth by Woolly mammoths that I blogged about awhile back.

Elderly Couple meet

They awoke to their first dawn together on Mother's day. Sure, there's a 30 year age difference, but at 111 vs 140ish, whose to say it's wrong?