Work began today on completing our irrigation system. Dwight Mills is doing the project. He is the brother of sheriff Bill Mills. Dwight has been around here a long time and can recount Kontiki stories much farther back than I can. They picked a good time to do the work as tomorrow's high temperature is forecast to be 90 degrees. After that a cold front will take us down to the mid 70's  for the rest of the week. Ed(302) told me that on Wednesday on this way to work in Maine that his car registered an outside temperature of minus 6 degrees. I'll take what we have anytime.
On Friday Jerry Brundrette and his daughter Bridgette came out to look over our plans to build a bulkhead to protect our northeast corner from further erosion. I had not met Jerry although he is a legendary surveyor for the county of Aransas. He also told me stories about the early days of Kontiki and the surrounding areas.
Fishing has continued to be very poor. I put out three poles with live mullet for three days and never had a bite. Vic(712) took his kayak to Sailboat Pass on Friday and said he caught a lot of fish, but only three keeper trout. Don Gormley took his boat to St. Charles Bay on Friday and fished hard to come back with one keeper drum.  A guest in 301 went to the jetties on  Saturday and landed a 34 inch red off the end of the jetties. He put it on a stringer and put it back in the water. Sure enough the stringer got caught up in the rock and is likely still there.
Murlin and Pat(506) came in today. They had not been here since June. It was good to see them and Dollie again. They are planning to take their condo off the market for now.
The buzz among the winter Texans has been the price increase for next year. Three bedroom bayside condos will rent for almost $2,300 per month. Even the summer rates are going up too.  A  three bedroom bayside condo will rent for just over $2,000 per week with tax.