Random photos

[mellicious]

I was pulling pictures off my iPhone and more off of Picasa earlier, so here are some pictures and a few words to go with them:

from Picasa:
My dad was a shrimper, but he retired from shrimping, sold his boat, and spent the rest of his life (as it turned out) as a substitute teacher. (This might seem less surprising if I tell you that he was a teacher before he ever was a shrimper. He was a bit of a job-hopper. But I went to college on shrimp proceeds, so I can't complain!)

Anyway, I don't remember how long ago this was, but several years after he had sold his boat, we happened to go to the Blessing of the Fleet one year, and there was the boat!
(This is probably one of those stories where that doesn't seem that unusual to anybody but us, but what can you do - life is full of stories like that, I'm afraid!)

It looks different but I still recognized it without even looking at the name (which hadn't changed - it was named after my grandfather, actually). It looks like everybody on board is having a good time, anyway!

Here's the back of the quilt in the last entry - remember I said there were fish? I was wondering about that because that didn't seem like it went with the color scheme, but in fact it does. I don't know which fabric company decided to print up this unusually-subdued fish print, but it certainly worked for our purposes. We also seem to have used up the scraps of the black-and-brown batik, and some other prints that I may have brought for the purpose. (Doing backs in big chunks of various prints is an old trick of mine, and I have often used it over the years to get rid of fabric that I'm tired of looking at. Which I suspect is what some of these might've been!)


from the phone:
(I did say this was going to be random, remember)
There used to always be Gulf gas around when I was a kid, but somewhere along the line they disappeared, at least in this area. Then this year suddenly they appeared again.

(Looking at the bottom of this picture, it doesn't look like they bothered to fix up the base of the pump. I guess they just put the shiny new sign on the front of the pump and stopped there.)

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Comments

[melliemelo.livejournal.com]

Seafood is big business here in LA. We have a blessing of the fleet every labor day, at the Shrimp and Petroleum Festival!

[mellificent.livejournal.com]

They used to have one every year in Galveston - they may still, for all I know, but I haven't heard anybody mention it in several years, if so. The one pictured above was in Kemah, in Galveston Bay. (Actually, one year my dad was the King of the Blessing of the Fleet, in Galveston. There used to be a picture of him and my mom floating around, I will have to look for it! I had almost forgotten about that.)